April 2019 - Salem Oaks

But what does it mean to educate a patient?

Many individuals and organizations, including Salem Oaks, talk about patient education and health literacy. But what does it mean to educate a patient? Is the opposite of an educated patient an uneducated patient? Last month Salem Oaks presented a panel discussionat Patients as Partnersin Philadelphia. The objective of the session was to demonstrate the value of educating…

UPDATE: Online Course Library Grows

Salem Oaks’ portfolio of online courses is growing rapidly. Since last month, we launched two new modules in the R&D decision-making series, bringing the total to four. Check them out and see where we are going next!

Final Installment of Open Water Sets Sail

The fourth module in our series on Decision Making in Pharmaceutical Research and Development. focuses on the decisions required for Phase 1 Clinical Studies. The stakes are higher as people participate in the studies. These first studies establish a beachhead that will allow the team to learn more and more about the compound. It gets pretty exciting!

Open Water Part 2: Discovery and Pre-Clinical Research

Salem Oaks is proud to launch the third module in our series on Decision Making in Pharmaceutical Research and Development. The underlying goal of this series is to help equip you to be part of a Research and Development Team. The first module, Decisions Decisions, gave a high-level overview of the major decisions throughout the…

Resources are Great, But…

Resources are great. But what if you don’t know that they exist, or where to find them? Patient foundations are an invaluable collection of resources for their respective patient groups. They offer support, various libraries of information and disease facts, resources (financial, medical, community oriented, mental health services, etc.) and, if available, access to patient…