I know CRA they typically have a window or studies typically have a visit window
in which you can schedule your visit and then they're always they always have
metrics for like monitoring like you need to do this many visits a month well
how are you able to do personal travel as a monitor and I know a lot of
monitors that don't really take super long personal trips but knowing you
personally how are you how are you able to take you know some of these long
trips and still manage to get your metrics well for the months that I do
take long trips I do not get my metrics but for that month like I absolutely aim
to get my metrics and get my make all of my metrics for the months that I'm you
know that I have nothing planned I make my metrics and that's fine but you know
I have vacation time for a reason so I use my vacation time and if I happen to
plan a long trip then I mean I let my study team know ahead of time like you
know hey I'm gonna be out for this for this amount of time like in October I'll
be gone for two weeks on vacation but like I always do whenever I go on
vacation I took a two-week vacation last year I make sure that I for all of my
visits I have completed all my all of my visits within the visit window so I
there did it early or it's not due until after I returned from my vacation so I
make sure to schedule my visits like that I make sure that whoever is
covering me whatever CRS cover me they will only have to respond to emails they
don't have to go out and do a visit so they're only listed as a reference in my
email if somebody has a question about the protocol if somebody has a question
about how to get access to something not just things that you can handle over
email if no one needs to physically be at their site so that's really how I
handle it and I let my study teams like I said I let my study
to know well in advance like for that two-month vacation I let them know three
months in advance okay actually I've let I've let my my current
study team know six months in advance so they know that I'm gonna be gone and
like it's like I said I just planned my visits so that I do the visit I don't
have to rely on any other CRA to perform my visit and that's it so you do it
earlier in the month so you just do it like that then yeah so like for for my
and last year I went in the middle of the month so I compact all of my visits
that I need to do into like those first two weeks and then so that I can make
sure I get the report in on time make sure I do all of that but I don't if I
know that I have something like a two-week vacation I'm not concerned with
meeting my metrics for that month because I know that that's gonna wear me
out like partly that's just gonna wear me out I'm concerned with making sure
that all of my sites have made I have done all of their visits within the
visit window and making sure that I just get you know as much done as I can on my
end so that you know there's little for the study team to do while I'm gone
okay so what happens if you don't meet metrics
I mean clearly you've been you've been doing this a while so nothing like
terrible happens but I know a lot of companies will use that for like a bonus
a quarterly bonus or something like that they'll use those metrics to make sure
that you're you know you're performing you know adequately or above adequately
so what so what really happens if you don't meet your metrics so it's really
dependent on your company your manager I've been blessed to have pretty good
managers now granted last year was the first time that I've taken a two-week
vacation normally it's like a week or less so that was the first time that
I've taken that longer vacation but my manager was great at that time she
didn't have any problems with me taking the vacation she wanted to make sure you
know long as everything like I said my physics were done my reports were done
you know pretty much everything that I just went through but yeah she didn't
really there wasn't anything like I didn't get reprimanded or anything like
that I mean it lose out on the bonus because
that one month is included in one of the quarterly bonuses so obviously I
wouldn't get the bonus for that month but I mean you know that when you if you
plan a two-week vacation you know you're gonna miss that bonus unless unless you
you make it up in some other way and I could have done it because I did have
extra visits so sometimes I will put it just depends on how busy my study is
like for last year my study wasn't that busy so I didn't have to do I didn't
have to do the extra visits but like the year previous to that I put I think I
took a vacation in like June or something and so I had extra visits in
May above my metrics above the required monthly metrics and I had extra visits
in June I mean in July so it kind of evened out what I did in June or what I
did on June though sometimes your manager will want you to do it like that
sometimes they won't really say anything to you more more often than not they're
probably going to want you to do more in the months before and after your
vacation so that even though you didn't meet the metrics for that month
you meet it for that quarter okay all right so so it's just dependent on
manager company that you work for and then your study also because if you
don't have a study that is keeping you busy like that then you can't you you
know you can't meet your metrics like that but if you're if you're on a study
that's not keeping you busy I would think that your manager is trying to
find you something else to do anyway yeah that's true
so so it's just a combination of both and and even for like my current study
that I'm on I think this year last year I didn't have to do it but this year
it's probably gonna be me doing more in September and more in November more
visits than the than the monthly number I've met for a visit