When you have been in a particular job or role for many years, it can be very tempting to feel after all this time that you know everything there is to know about the job and the role. If anyone wants to learn anything new, they must register for and complete various online training courses. They are much better today than years ago – take advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) for example. These are complex treatments that require new ways of working with a range of knowledge an skills for many staff groups inolved in their delivery to patients. A course would be a series of e-learning sesions designed to give the learner a basic understanding of advanced theapies, any steps inolved in producing these medicines and how they function in the body. Each session takes the learner from the basics of cell and gene therapy and different midalitie of treatment, through to more indepth look at products currenty being delivered through both commissioned treatment and the clinical trials. Each training session lasts 30-45 minutes covering various topics: Introduction to advanced therapy medicina products; In vivo gene therapies; Immune effector cell therapy; Focus on CAR-T cell therapy; the logistics of ATMPs in hospitals; advanced therapy investigational medicinal produt in clinical trials; procurement of cells or tissues as starting ATMP materials; safe use of low temperature transport cells; T cell receptor therapy in solid tumours. All these are absolutely essential issues for those in the medicine and clinical worlds, wher online training will be needed constantly to keep up with new standards.
