Talks and workshops
We give talks and run workshops for patient groups, community organizations, research staff and clinic teams. Each session uses the same plain language as Cards on the Table and is built around the questions your audience brings.
Every session can be given in person or online, and each one can be shortened or combined to fit your meeting.
For patients, families and community groups
Talk, 45 to 60 minutes, with questions
What a trial is and why trials are run, then the words people meet when they are offered one, and what they can ask before deciding.
For patients, families and community groups
Talk, 45 to 60 minutes, with questions
The questions people carry home from a first appointment, how to raise them with the team, and how to keep track of what was said.
For research coordinators and research nurses
Workshop, 90 minutes or half a day
A practical session on explaining randomization, placebo, phases, eligibility and withdrawal so that a participant can repeat it back. Bring a paragraph from a consent form you use and the group rewrites it together at a lower reading level.
For navigators, nurses and clinic teams
Talk, 45 minutes
How to match a card or a book to where a patient is, when to hand over the planner, and how to set up a version of the site with your own contacts.
For students and trainees
Lecture, 50 to 60 minutes
For medical, nursing and public health programs: why trial information is hard to read, what reading-level research shows about consent documents, and how to write for the people who will read it.
Talks are given by Oyepeju Abioye-Akintola, MD, MSc, an internal medicine physician and co-author of Cards on the Table. Her research looks at how readable clinical trial consent documents are, and she is a 2026-2027 Health Equity Fellow with Health Affairs, through its Health Equity Fellowship for Trainees (HEFT).
Every session stays general. No product, drug, company or specific trial is named or promoted, and nothing in a session is medical advice for anyone in the room.
Sessions are scheduled around clinical work, so the more notice you can give, the better. Online sessions are the easiest to fit in at short notice.
No. Sessions explain how trials and cancer care work in general. Questions about a particular trial or treatment belong with the person's own care team.
Links to the free cards and books in six languages, and the Taking Notes appointment planner, which anyone can print. Printed decks and planners for your group can be ordered through our page for organizations.
Email info@protocolandpeople.org with your organization, your audience, roughly how many people, and the dates you have in mind.
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