Drug Discovery Exchange Fellowship Workshop 9th-10th

December

Mike HardmanIMI EMTRAIN Coordinator

Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)

The Problem

Traditional “reductionist” approach

21st Century “systems” approach

BiologyPharmacologyChemistryPharmacyImmunologyMedicine

Limited sharing of knowledge

Predictive science

Translational medicine

Personalised health care

Regulatory Science

Modelling & Simulation

Nanotechnology

Collaborations

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A double rod pendulum animation showing chaotic behavior. Starting the pendulum from a slightly different initial

condition would result in a completely different trajectory. The double rod pendulum is one of the simplest dynamic

systems that has chaotic solutions.

The solution

Every professional in the biomedical sciences needs to develop and maintain an optimal level of professional competence, to speed up the development of better medicines for patients

Better

medicines for

patients

IMI Education and Training Programmes

European Medicines Research Training Network (EMTRAIN)

European Programme in Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology (Eu2P)

Pharmaceutical Medicines Training Programme (PharmaTrain)

European Modular Education and Training Programme in Safety Sciences for Medicines (SafeSciMET)

European Patients Academy on Therapeutic Innovation (EUPATI)

on-course®

We provide a comprehensive on-course® catalogue (

www.on-course.eu) with quality indicators and

tools/methodologies

PhD programme

LifeTrain

EMTRAIN strengthens the pan-European

community of scientists in medicines development

We build a programme for public-private partnership

PhD students who understand industry needs

We ensure broad stakeholder support for 21st

century skills, CPD and competency portfolios

IMI EMTRAIN: Key Messages

on-course®:

Find the right ‘course’

to develop and maintain

your professional competence!

on-course® www.on-course.eu

A typical course page

A typical course page

on-course®

We provide a comprehensive on-course® catalogue (

www.on-course.eu) with quality indicators and

tools/methodologies

PhD programme

LifeTrain

EMTRAIN strengthens the pan-European

community of scientists in medicines development

We build a programme for public-private partnership

PhD students who understand industry needs

We ensure broad stakeholder support for 21st

century skills, CPD and competency portfolios

IMI EMTRAIN: Key Messages

Professional/ Scientific

Bodies

Individual Professionals/

Scientists

The IMI LifeTrain Framework

Support their members with defined

competency profiles in their career planning

Develop and provide quality CPD

programmes which meet the employers

needs and are aligned with

professional/scientific bodies

Course Providers

European Framework for

continuing professional

development (CPD) in the

biomedical Sciences

Take responsibility for CPD and

apply the‚ plan-do-report-review cycleEmployers

Include CPD in individual development plans

and to work with course providers and professional/

scientific bodies so that employers‘ needs are addressed

LifeTrain Messages

An individual competency portfolio should capture all relevant information to facilitate mobility, and to support career development.

CPD formal

learning

Education

Practical work

experience

CPD informal

learning CPD

Transferable

skills

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Evalu

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record

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“We now have the critical mass to drive change for people development, to help Europe retain its position in R&D in biomedical sciences. We warmly welcome further input and have set up a discussion forum on the on‑course® website”.

LifeTrain

Did anybody listen?

The signatories to this European Common

Framework for CPD in the biomedical sciences have agreed to the principles of

the framework and to continue the collaboration

in the implementation process.

LifeTrain

LifeTrain’s key messages• Every professional in the biomedical sciences needs to develop and maintain an

optimal level of professional competence in order to contribute to speeding up the development of better medicines for patients.

 • An individual competency portfolio should capture all relevant information in a

transparent, easy-to-understand way in order to facilitate mobility between: scientific disciplines; academia, health authorities and industry; jobs and countries; and to support career development.

 • Continuing professional development (CPD) is essential and should be driven by

each individual in agreement with their employer and in compliance with the requirements of the respective professional/scientific bodies.

 • CPD should be part of a “plan, do, review” cycle and can include formal, non-formal

and informal learning. Each individual should reflect on the learning and its application in practice.

 • Objective assessments of competence should be made by the individual and by

others, on a regular basis throughout the individual’s professional working life.

 • Needs should be identified and professional training courses developed and

delivered in collaboration between industry, technical experts, and course providers (including universities). They should meet the needs of adult-learners and should be available on on-course®.

Professional/scientific bodies will:

• Encourage members to establish and develop professional competencies by the

provision of a framework for lifelong learning and professional recognition

• Support their membership in the development and maintenance of a competency

portfolio

• Recognise the importance of relevant trans-disciplinary and generic competences

• Recognise core competences from other IMI LifeTrain partner professional/scientific

bodies

• Work towards the implementation of the IMI Education and Training quality standard

• Recognise continuing education courses that fulfil the appropriate IMI Education and

Training standard as part of an individual’s CPD

• Recognise the added value of periodic auditing of CPD records

 

The questions for LifeTrain

What competences do I

need for my work and

what are the gaps?

What learning

opportunities can help

me?

How can I consolidate

the learning and

become “competent”

Thank you!

www.emtrain.eu

www.on-course.eu