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Site Operations & Participant Experience

Recruitment and Retention: Fix the Bottleneck Without Pressuring Participants

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Find where a fictional recruitment funnel is losing people, and improve it without pressure tactics.

This course is still being built. Lessons are not available yet, and there is no enrollment, payment or certificate for it at this stage.

Practitioner · Self-paced

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Illustration of a recruitment funnel narrowing at a bottleneck, with outreach icons on one side and a retention pathway on the other

What this course covers.

Who it is for
Site teams and study managers responsible for enrollment.
What you will be able to do
Analyze a fictional recruitment funnel and propose an ethical, practical improvement plan.
What you will produce
A funnel analysis and an improvement plan.
Systems referenced
No specific system access is required for this course.

Topics

  • Screening funnel
  • Retention
  • Participant burden
  • Ethical outreach

All scenarios used in Academy courses are fictional practice material. Course work is practice, not employment experience, and it is not a verified competency result.

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