did you get your start in clinical research there are a lot of people that
watch this this channel and who's gonna be watching this content who are trying
to get into the clinical research field a lot of people want to be see Ras so if
you could just share a little bit about how you found out about clinical
research maybe how you ended up getting into clinical research and we'll just
start there okay research I think it was around my junior year of college so I
was pre-med in college but then I decided I didn't want to do that anymore
so they have a Career Center at the school I went to and I was reviewing a
couple of jobs at the Career Center and they introduced the field of clinical
research to me and so then I did my own like research I guess of the different
entry-level models and I reached out to some alumni that I knew worked in the
field so they gave me pointers as far as like I guess things I need to include on
my resume but they let me know that it's you know tough to get into the field so
I just kept applying for jobs with various companies and then I finally
caught a break after about a year of applying so Wow so it took you about a
year to finally break in do you know how many of about how many jobs you applied
to during that span I would say I probably apply to like seven seven or
eight I think only seven or eight at least having her hey just because as I
knew like where some of the positions I saw it wasn't entry-level it was like
level two so I knew you know I wouldn't get considered for that because I was
you know recent college graduate so I try to apply for the CTA positions like
the drug safety officer position is and I did it United apply for CRE positions
that I just like did that just too so the company would have my resume on file
okay yeah that's a pretty good strategy to just apply for whatever you can cuz a
lot of times they'll say you know what you know you're not
five for this position but we have this other position coming out that you are
qualified for yeah so you mentioned CTA a lot of people may
not know that acronyms that we talk about what what exactly is a CTA if you
could expand on that a CTA a clinical trial at this or Assoc I guess depends
on the company my kid works better i they do more of like the in mouth tasks
when it comes to clinical research they may you know reach out to the site and
have scheduled contacts with them or they may you know the in charge of
uploading documents to the the company's clinical trial management systems just a
lot more of their like administrative in hostas mm-hmm okay
and would you say that's a pretty good entry point to the industry for people
looking to get in yeah of course yeah okay
so you applied you apply to your jobs you finally broke into the industry
after a year or so and what what position did you end up getting it what
did what position was that outside was the clinical mine site associated um
which is also like an in-house position lead more so so we were like the I would
say one of the first point of contact for the site but we were the main point
of contact for the site so because we worked hand-in-hand with the CRA s so um
each site had a CRA and a CMA and because the CRH travel the CMA will be
more accessible when it comes to just like various protocol questions or the
site needed supplies or anything like that on the contact to see Mary and then
a CMA we have received context with the scientists who you know keep up with the
status of the patients and make sure everything is going okay and it's
excited halfway through the valve the protocol or anything like that so okay
excellent yeah so you got in as a CMA now not
every company calls it that so I mean other
people would call it maybe in how CRA that's probably the the standard term
there for that position right yeah and you did that position for how long did
that position for a year and four months and then I moved to the CRA position