Bring research into your practice, properly
Add Clinical Research to Your Practice, the Right Way.
Clinical research can add meaningful treatment options, professional engagement and a sustainable research program to an established practice. The barrier for most clinics is not clinical interest — it is the operating infrastructure required to run trials consistently.
MDTrials builds that infrastructure around your practice: study start-up, ethics support, contracts and budgets, coordinator operations, documentation, sponsor and CRO communication, and quality processes.
Interested physicians. Staged support
Who this model is for
- Specialty clinics with an established patient population and physician interest in research
- Investigators with prior trial experience who want to increase study capacity without building a full operations team
- Research-naive clinics willing to invest time in training, governance and protocol discipline
- Existing sites that need stronger coordination, document control, budget or quality support
Start with the practice, not the pitch
How a partnership begins
We start with the clinical practice: patient population, specialty, investigator availability, facility, staffing, referral patterns and what research needs to look like for the practice to remain sustainable. If the opportunity is viable, we assess the gaps between the current clinic and sponsor and site requirements, then build a staged readiness plan.
Qualification of the investigator
We build selectively. A viable partnership requires an engaged investigator, an appropriate patient population, clinic capacity for research, and willingness to adopt the training, governance and documentation discipline sponsors expect. We take on a limited number of site builds at a time and do not market a development clinic to sponsors until it is ready to pass feasibility honestly.
What stays with the investigator
The principal investigator retains clinical and scientific responsibility for the trial and oversight of delegated trial activities. MDTrials supports the investigator with systems, people and processes; it does not replace the investigator's responsibilities under GCP and applicable requirements. [R20]
Study fit and allocation
Not every study belongs at every clinic. We aim to bring opportunities that fit the patient population, investigator interest and actual site capability. Where more than one site in the network could host a study, allocation follows documented criteria — protocol fit, investigator specialty, capability and capacity — and we tell partner sites how the decision was reached. Investigators should not have to wonder why a study went elsewhere.
Frequent Questions
- How does my clinic become a clinical trial site in Canada?In practice it requires an investigator willing to take on principal investigator responsibilities, a suitable patient population, facilities appropriate to the protocol, trained coordinator support, and the documentation and quality systems sponsors and regulators expect. MDTrials assesses the gap between your current practice and those requirements and builds a staged plan.
- Do I need previous research experience?No. We work with research-naive clinics and build capability progressively — starting with training, governance and studies that fit the practice, then expanding as the site team develops experience.
- What does it cost the clinic?The commercial arrangement depends on the model and the studies involved and is agreed before any commitment. We build infrastructure in proportion to real study demand rather than asking a clinic to invest ahead of opportunity.
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MDTrials supplies the operating infrastructure so your clinic can sustain research alongside patient care — not instead of it.