hey guys ECR G here back with another video today we're going to be talking
about career paths for study coordinators so if you're interested in
learning about more career paths stay tuned
hey guys Serg here back with another video today we're talking about career
paths for study coordinators now this is an interesting topic because a lot of
study coordinators feel stuck they feel like they're stuck at the site level and
they either want to get to the CRO or the sponsor level or find out a better
way to move up at the site level which can be very difficult and we're gonna go
about some of the career paths that are out there and some of the job
opportunities that are out there for people with study coordinator experience
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get you on the path to your dream job now back to the video study coordinators
have a hard time moving up at the site level because there are other roles at
the site level there are people like site managers there are different levels
of study coordinators you've got level 2 level 3 but after you've exhausted those
different levels of study coordinator it becomes a little bit harder to become a
site manager because typically somebody who's a site manager they require a good
amount of experience for that and to be honest not even all clinics even have
that opportunity or that role so or that role could be fulfilled by someone who's
like the owner of the site or or a partner in the site ownership so you
basically you're not getting that role unless they sell it to you or you know
they die and then they promote you or something something along those lines
they lead the company and they promote you something along those lines so
that is something that a lot of people have been emailing about and wondering
you know how do I get promoted from the study coordinator position well that is
one way as you can hope to get a site manager role or you can move to a site
where they have that type of role but like I said is not at all sites but if
they do have it and you're interested then you can once again analyze how to
get into that role but a lot of people that are study coordinators are
interested in some of the more cro type roles and i feel like getting to the cro
is one of the better ways to get to the sponsor level too because typically
sponsors want to hire people with cro experience because really the people
really people really the sponsors want to bring that stuff in-house want to
start bringing the CRO tasks in-house so they want people with the CRO experience
in order to kind of help them facilitate bringing those tasks in-house so really
I think your best bet to get to the sponsor level is to kind of go do a few
years in the CRO world but one of the best roles for you in the CRO world one
of the easiest roles is to become a CRA once your study coordinator and I say
that because study coordinators work hand in hand with CRA s they are some of
the people that they have the most frequent contact with on a daily basis
weekly basis they're there for the site qualification visits they're there for
the initiation visits they're there for every intra monitoring visit they're
there for the closeout visits you know the study coordinators are there with
the CRA running the trial so that isn't great opportunity for study coordinators
to become a CRA one day and all the time the CEOs are looking for people with
study coordinator experience to become CRA s I've seen where they come out with
these training programs with these entry-level training programs where
they're only looking for study coordinators I know this because I've
been in a position before where I'm not a study coordinator never have been when
the interest of full disclosure but I'm getting frustrated because
hey I've got zero experience but they're only looking for people outside of the
CRO so but that's a great opportunity for you if you're a study coordinator to
take advantage of getting your foot in the door in a CRO through one of those
programs but it's not unheard of for a study coordinator to get in as a CRA
without one of those programs also just depending on your amount of experience
so I say one to two years probably lean on the side of two years before you can
make that jump to a CRO but it's definitely possible and I think one of
the best ways to do it as a CRA but there are a lot of people out there who
are not interested in traveling so the next best way the next best role to hop
into the CRA is the in-house CRA or they have other roles out there now maybe
site manager may be remote CRA may be risk based CRA they get all these
different type of names maybe Central monitor they've got all these type of
names for them and that is the next best role for it now what they do is going to
be different every company but basically they're there to help the CRA they help
collect document from the site a lot of see remote see arrays are actually
monitoring now so they're gonna be monitoring the data and basically the
only two things that they don't do are gonna be things that only can be done
on-site so I pay accountability and source that and source data verification
so those are the only two tests that they are not going to be able to do
because you got to be on-site to do those things so that is another good
route and of course the in-house CRA communicates with the study coordinators
a lot also so I feel like study coordinators would have a good chance of
getting that role because they work hand in hand with each other all the time
especially if you're doing monthly calls with an in-house CRA person so that's
another great role for a study coordinator now I have another one here
that probably a lot of people don't think about and a lot of people don't
think about this when they want to get into the industry most people just think
CRA CRA I want to be a CRA but the third role I have for you is of course study
startup specialist now you're probably saying EC RG what is that I never
that before well a study start a specialist is essentially what it sounds
like study startup specialist they're there to help the study startup so what
they do is they collect documents from the site they work with the site to
collect the first round of documents so they're gonna be in there connecting the
financial disclosure forms from the P I and sub eyes they're gonna be collecting
that initial 1572 they're gonna be collecting all of the GCP training from
that initial sites that they're gonna be collecting protocol signature pages
they're gonna be doing all those documents in all the startup procedures
this helpful helping facilitate that for the beginning of the trial and then once
the trial actually starts they hand off the trial to the project team and you
know this study startup process can take anywhere from weeks to months but at but
they are only on the study for the startup phase and then they hand it off
to the project team and then they go back to start up another study so that's
why they're called study start-up specialists and it's a good role because
a study coordinator is gonna be used to handling all those documents they should
have experience working with a study stirred studies startup person because
they are gonna be the ones collecting all those documents now not every CRO
because I'm not not well-versed on every single CRO but I know a lot of CEOs do
have dedicated study startup people that hand off the study to the CEOs project
team after the study has been fully started up and it's a great role for
people that are interested and you know study coordinators that really like the
startup phase or just to get your foot in the door of a CRO because that can be
difficult in and of itself so that's the third for the CRO role that you can get
in and then we already talked about site manager earlier on about a role at the
site that someone can get if your study coordinator but I think the other three
CRA in-house CRA and study startup specialists are probably the best ways
to get in if your study coordinator and probably the best of your skills
there's also project specialist project coordinator
if you're interested on the project side but I find that study coordinators have
an easier time to get in on the clinical side because that's where a lot of your
experience is you work hand in hand with the clinical team so I feel like you
have the best opportunity to get in on the clinical side of a CRO so I guess as
a distant as a distance fifth option we can put project coordinator project
specialists if you're really interested in project management you might be so
that's a distant fifth but I feel like it's better to kind of get your foot in
the door on the clinical side just because interviewing will be easier
transferable skills will be easier and just an overall easier transition for
you from the site side to the clinical side rather than go insight to project
side but it's not impossible it can be done so it's all a matter of what you
want what you're interested in and you know what kind of role you're really
looking for so I hope this was helpful guys as always like the video share this
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