According to the Medicinal Products Act, each person conducting clinical trials must have a documented education on good clinical practice, no older than three years. Good clinical practice (GCP) includes international ethical and scientific standards for the quality of planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting of trials conducted on human subjects. Adherence to these standards provides public guarantees for the protection of the rights, safety and well-being of subjects in accordance with the principles in the Declaration of Helsinki, as well as that the data obtained from clinical trials are credible.
The lifelong learning programme Clinical Drug Testing – good clinical practice is a module of the postgraduate specialist study Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology: Drug Testing and Administration and can be enrolled separately. By passing the exam, participants acquire a certificate that will enable them to participate in the implementation, approval and supervision of clinical trials of drugs and medical products in healthcare institutions, academic and research institutions, the pharmaceutical industry and regulatory bodies in the local community and the entire Republic of Croatia. The programme comprises 22 hours of lectures and 10 hours of seminars and is worth 8 ECTS credits.