Show what you can actually do in clinical research.
Competency Labs is where you practice realistic clinical research work, produce the artifacts the job asks for, and receive structured feedback against a published rubric. Practice is open today; human-reviewed evidence runs as a controlled beta.
Inside a casebook workspace
The case, the tasks, the rubric version it is scored against, the review state and the domains it evidences.
Illustrative demo data
Scenario
A visit 3 source worksheet records a dose given outside the protocol window. The protocol was amended last month and the delegation log has not been updated.
Case documents
- Protocol extract, amendment 2
- Source worksheet, visit 3
- Site delegation log
Task steps
- 1. Identify the deviationWritten responseSubmitted
- 2. Draft the source correctionDocument entryIn progress
- 3. Attach your evidenceWorksheet extract1 file uploaded
- 4. Decide the escalation routeStructured choiceNot started
Evidence upload
Drop the artifact the role would produce, or write it in place. Uploads are private to your submission.
Practice feedback is developmental. Verified evidence requires documented assessor review against defined criteria.
What worked
You identified the window breach from the source worksheet rather than the summary, and you dated and initialled the correction.
What to strengthen
State the reason for change on the entry itself, and record the delegation log gap as a separate finding rather than folding it into the deviation.
Practice feedback helps you improve. It is not a score and it is not recorded as evidence.
- Identify the deviationLevel: demonstratedScored
- Draft the source correctionLevel: developingScored
- Decide the escalation routeNo submission yetNot scored
Nothing reaches an evidence record before a human review against clear scoring criteria.
Show the work, not just the title
A job title records where you have been and a certificate records what you attended. Competency Labs looks at the work itself: how you read a protocol after it changes, run a visit in the right order, and write up the decision you made.
- A job title shows you were there, not that you can decide.
- A certificate shows you attended, not that you can do the work.
- An interview is one hour, and every interviewer asks something different.
- So employers end up guessing who is ready.
Diagnose, develop, practice, demonstrate, verify
One journey: diagnose the gap, close it in Academy, practice it, demonstrate it, and have a person confirm it before it becomes evidence.
Diagnose
A short check sets your target role and the skills that decide whether you are ready for it.
Develop
Every gap points to the exact Academy course or assignment that closes it, and your progress shows up here.
Practice
Practice with AI simulations and live role-play as often as you like. Practice never counts as proof.
Demonstrate
Timed casebooks ask you to produce the same work the job asks for, under the same conditions for everyone.
Verify
An experienced reviewer scores your work against a published rubric. A person has to approve it.
Passport and opportunity
Only approved work goes on your Passport, and you decide who sees it.
What you can demonstrate
The skills depend on the role. For a coordinator pathway they include these.
Protocol interpretation
Reading a protocol and its amendments, and acting on what changed.
Informed consent
Consent conduct, timing, documentation and handling of participant questions.
Participant visits
Visit sequencing, procedure order, tolerances and slipped windows.
Documentation and source data
Source entries, corrections, attributability and query resolution.
Safety reporting
Recognition, classification, timelines and escalation of safety events.
Regulatory and essential documents
Essential document handling, file completeness and version control.
Practice is open. Reviewed evidence is a controlled beta.
Practice casebooks and structured feedback run with a limited group while the review process is tested. A formal assessment service and a portable evidence record are still in design, cannot be bought or activated, and are not claimed as live anywhere on this site.
- Open
Practice casebooks and simulations
Realistic role-based work you can attempt inside the BORAKA workspace. Practice attempts are developmental and never become verified evidence.
- Controlled beta
Human-reviewed feedback
A reviewer reads what you produced and writes back observable strengths and gaps against a published rubric version. Places are limited.
- In design
Formal assessment and portable record
A structured assessment service and a portable capability record are being designed. Neither is generally available today.
Practice is for learning. Verification is for proof.
Practice
- Repeat it as often as you like.
- Feedback is developmental, never a score.
- Nothing is written to your record.
Verification
- One attempt under set conditions.
- Scored by a reviewer against a published rubric version.
- Approved work reaches your record with its review date.
Five casebooks, one published rubric each
Every casebook is a written work simulation authored by BORAKA. Opening one requires a BORAKA account and sign-in.
Risk-based monitoring at a high-enrolling site
- Duration
- 60 minutes
- Tasks
- 7
- Rubric criteria
- 7
- Relevant role
- CRA
Show that you can read a set of monitoring signals, separate what is known from what still needs verification, prioritize by risk to participants and to the reliability of the results, and act inside a monitor's role.
Open in Competency LabsProtocol interpretation under pressure
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Tasks
- 6
- Rubric criteria
- 5
- Relevant role
- CRC
Show that you can find the governing requirement in a protocol, decide whether a proposed action is permitted, and record the reasoning someone else could follow.
Open in Competency LabsRunning a study visit end to end
- Duration
- 50 minutes
- Tasks
- 5
- Rubric criteria
- 4
- Relevant role
- CRC
Show that you can prepare for, sequence and close a study visit so the participant is safe, the schedule is respected and the record is defensible.
Open in Competency LabsClassifying and reporting a safety event
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Tasks
- 6
- Rubric criteria
- 5
- Relevant role
- CRC
Show that you can classify an event correctly, separate a deviation from a safety report, and produce a report a reviewer can follow inside the required timeline.
Open in Competency LabsCoordinating a participant safety call under time pressure
- Duration
- 45 minutes
- Tasks
- 7
- Rubric criteria
- 6
- Relevant role
- CRC
Show that you can read a protocol correctly, judge eligibility and safety, escalate a possible bleeding event properly, document it to ALCOA+ standards, identify the deviations, and brief the investigator and monitor in writing.
Open in Competency Labs
Practice access is a membership. Verification is priced per role.
Practice and diagnostics are developmental. Only a human-verified competency assessment can produce verified evidence. Unlimited access to the learning and practice library, with a monthly allowance for AI-powered assessment and feedback.
Free Practice Lab
Short role challenges you can work through without paying anything.
- Open practice challenges for several role pathways
- Immediate developmental feedback
- No verified record is created
Competency Labs Premium
The full practice library, role simulations and case exercises, billed monthly and cancellable any month.
- Full practice library and role-based simulations
- Case-based exercises with AI feedback on your work
- A larger monthly AI practice allowance
Human-verified assessment
Human-verified assessments open with the Fall 2026 cohorts. Register interest to be told first.
- Timed casebook under set conditions
- Scored by a person against a published rubric version
- Priced per role when it opens
Framework first, evidence second, human decision last.
Credibility is built in a fixed order. Each rung depends on the one before it, and none of them is skipped to make a result arrive faster.
- 01Foundation
Published frameworks, not a private language
Rubric domains are anchored to ICH-GCP principles and the Joint Task Force for Clinical Trial Competency, so a reader already knows what each domain means.
Alignment is a design discipline. It is not an endorsement, an accreditation or an affiliation.
- 02Evidence
Work produced under set conditions
Timed casebooks and scenario tasks ask for the same output the job asks for: a consent decision, a source entry, a deviation write-up. Every attempt is scored against the same published rubric version for that role.
Practice attempts are labelled as practice and never become evidence.
- 03Signal
A person approves it before it counts
An experienced reviewer scores the work, records the rubric version and review date, and approves or returns it. Only approved work becomes part of a verified record, and the holder controls who sees it.
A result describes demonstrated capability. It is not a license, a guarantee or a hiring decision.
One capability record, readable by both sides.
Reviewed casebooks and assessments build a structured record of what you demonstrated, domain by domain. You choose when to share it.
In preview. Shown here as an illustrative rendering, not a live public record.
- Domain-level detail
- Each demonstrated domain is recorded separately, so strengths and development areas stay legible.
- Human review retained
- The assessor review that produced the result is kept with the record under documented controls.
- Versioned and durable
- Every framework carries a version, so an older record can still be read correctly later.
- Shared on your terms
- Nothing is published by default. You decide what to share and with whom.
See what a BORAKA scenario actually asks of you.
Three coordinator scenarios. Answer in place to see what the choice shows. Nothing is stored and nothing is scored.
Scenario
A visit 3 source worksheet records a dose given outside the protocol window. The protocol was amended last month and the delegation log has not been updated.
Case documents
- Protocol extract, amendment 2
- Source worksheet, visit 3
- Site delegation log
Task steps
- 1. Identify the deviationWritten responseSubmitted
- 2. Draft the source correctionDocument entryIn progress
- 3. Attach your evidenceWorksheet extract1 file uploaded
- 4. Decide the escalation routeStructured choiceNot started
Evidence upload
Drop the artifact the role would produce, or write it in place. Uploads are private to your submission.
Practice feedback is developmental. Verified evidence requires documented assessor review against defined criteria.
What worked
You identified the window breach from the source worksheet rather than the summary, and you dated and initialled the correction.
What to strengthen
State the reason for change on the entry itself, and record the delegation log gap as a separate finding rather than folding it into the deviation.
Practice feedback helps you improve. It is not a score and it is not recorded as evidence.
- Identify the deviationLevel: demonstratedScored
- Draft the source correctionLevel: developingScored
- Decide the escalation routeNo submission yetNot scored
Nothing reaches an evidence record before a human review against clear scoring criteria.
Illustrative only. Not Verified, and not Passport evidence.
Fictional BORAKA training scenario. No real study, site or participant data is used.
Fictional study TRV-TRAIN-01 is amended. Amendment 3 shortens the screening window from 28 days to 21 days and is now approved and in effect at your site. A participant screened yesterday under the old window is scheduled for randomisation on day 26.
Choose an answer to see what the choice shows.
Hands-on practice and assessment run inside the BORAKA workspace, so a BORAKA account and sign-in are required before you can start an attempt.
Built for people who need to show capability, not just describe it
Competency Labs is specific to clinical research work. It is most useful when the gap between what you can do and what a hiring team can see is the thing holding you back.
Early-career professionals
You have the training but little site or study evidence, so applications rest on coursework alone.
Common questions about Competency Labs
Where this goes next
Practice sits between learning and the next role.
Competency Labs is where capability is demonstrated. These are the parts of BORAKA either side of it.
- BORAKA AcademyStructured programs and courses that build the underlying skill a casebook asks you to apply.Explore BORAKA Academy
- OpportunitiesCurated clinical research roles, with the readiness work that supports each pathway.Explore Opportunities
- BORAKA CareersPositioning, job-search strategy and interview support once the capability is there.Explore BORAKA Careers
Competency Labs sits at the center of BORAKA
The same account, the same records. Nothing is copied between products.
After your first practice
Free practice sets a target role and the domains Competency Labs will evidence next.
Alongside Academy
Academy closes a gap. Competency Labs is where you show the gap is closed. Course completion alone never creates verified evidence.
Builds your Competency Passport
Scored, human-reviewed work is what Passport entries are assembled from.
Read by employers
Employers read consented, verified evidence on the same domains, at the same rubric version.
Supports Careers
Coaching and introductions are informed by readiness and demonstrated role evidence.
Published standards
Frameworks, rubrics and review controls are documented and versioned.
What Competency Labs is not
- Not a license. Results are not a professional license, accreditation or regulatory approval.
- Not an endorsement. A result is not an employer endorsement or a guarantee of future performance.
- Not a course certificate. Completing training is not demonstrating capability. Competency Labs measure the second.
- Not external verification. It evaluates work completed in BORAKA. It does not authenticate third-party certificates, prior employment or licenses.
Start practicing, or read how the evidence is built.
Begin with a free practice challenge, or read how practice, review and evidence are separated before you begin.
- 01
Start the free practice
Work through a short role challenge. No account needed to begin.
- 02
Do the work
Practice the tasks first, then complete a timed casebook under set conditions.
- 03
Get it reviewed
An experienced reviewer scores your work, and only then does it go on your record.