hey guys Serg here and today we're going to talk about more tips for a better
tracker hey guys ECR G here and today we're gonna be talking about tips for
making better trackers now this is for people who are either project managers
or assistant project managers or you know any anybody out there in the
clinical research industry who is going to be looking at and maintaining a
tracker now this is specifically a project management video because project
managers are people in the project management side of things typically deal
with a lot of trackers and that's what I know about because that's how I came up
in the industry so that we're gonna talk about some tips to go along with that
now I know a lot of people who watch these videos are new to clinical
research or are interested in clinical research or just wanting to know what
it's like in a professional environment so you may not even know what a tracker
is so that's the first thing we're gonna talk about what is a tracker well a
tracker is basically a fancy way of saying an Excel spreadsheet or a table
and it's a table that keeps track and the word tracker of certain things so in
clinical research we have something called a study contact list tracker a
list or tracker which has everybody who is on the study so from the project
director from the project manager to you know the CR raised to the CMA is anybody
who has any interaction with that study is going to be on that tracker and on
that tracker is gonna be information like email address phone number you know
things to keep to keep in contact with that person if necessary and just as a
overall way to keep track of certain things you know if they if their CV has
been approved if they've been given access to certain systems like metadata
CTMS or if they've been given access to the TMF things like that so it's just a
good way of keeping track of certain things
so now that we know what a tracker is let's go ahead and get into some tips
for better maintaining one so the first tip I have for you is less is more this
is not a place for you to put a whole bunch of information that isn't
necessary this is a place for you to put only the necessary information and the
reason why you only want to put necessary information on there is
because you don't want to confuse anybody who's looking at it you don't
you want to make it so that they can get into the tracker and get out because
speed is the game you don't want to have someone go in there for one thing and
have to navigate through ten things just to get the one piece of information they
have so you want to keep it nice succinct and concise and that's gonna
help the tracker be overall better you don't want to put too much information
there just enough is perfect so you want to keep it concise so less is more and
this and like we mentioned earlier speed is everything so even when you're making
a tracker if you've made a tracker before just make a copy of that tracker
and insert the the new information the new personnel the new study information
into that tracker don't go and try and recreate the wheel every single time if
you have a tracker that people on your past teams liked and that you liked and
that was concise just copy that for the new team and you know fill in the
necessary information replace the necessary information
don't try and recreate the wheel maybe you might you know change a color here
and there but you don't want to you know take all that time to recreate
everything and type out all the columns and things like that if you have
something that works stick to it like I said speed is everything you don't need
to go wasting your time doing something you've already done so that kind of goes
in with less is more as well but speed is everything and then the third thing
we're gonna talk about with the tracker is readability like I said you don't you
don't want to bog it down you don't want to you know make it not concise you
don't want to put a lot more information that is necessary on a tracker that you
have to keep track of because and it's going to bog down people it's
gonna take more time for them to get the information they need from it and
ultimately it's gonna slow the team down it's gonna slow you down and it's gonna
be a lot harder for you to maintain the more information you have on there so
you definitely want to make sure that it is concise for the reason that it's
gonna increase the readability and it's gonna keep everybody moving at a great
speed when it comes to clinical trials so those are the three tips I have for
you readability speed is everything and less
is more when it comes to trackers like I said before don't try and reinvent the
wheel if you have something that works copy it and use it use it over and over
and over again and that's gonna help increase your speed as well and you can
use those same tips for so many other things that you may be doing in clinical
research as well which is no yume balancing a lot of things as a
entry-level clinical research person and there's gonna be a learning curve in the
beginning so you want to maximize where you can and not end up doing a lot more
work that you have to do so we're gonna use a lot of these same techniques with
some of the other things that I'm going to teach you guys but as far as tracker
goes these are great tips now if you haven't seen the video I did on how to
create action log that's kind of like a tracker we've done a tutorial on that
maybe we'll do another video on how to actually make a tracker will make a
tracker for you guys and if you'd like to see that you can comment down below
and that would be great so that's it for today guys if you have any other tips
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