hey guys ECR G here and today we're gonna talk about what exactly does a CTA
do that's a clinical trial assistant coming
right up hey guys ECR G here and today we're gonna talk
about what exactly is a CTA that's a clinical trial assistant for those of
you guys who don't know they are on the clinical side of things so they're it's
an entry-level position just like the project management assistant or project
specialist or project coordinator sometimes I've seen this position
CTA called clinical trial associate but not to be confused with CRA which is a
clinical research associate so we there's some acronyms here that we do
not want to confuse with each other so this is a CT a clinical trial assistant
and a lot of companies have this position but it's an entry-level
position on the clinical side of things hence its name clinical trial assistant
now what are they most likely going to be doing on a daily basis what is their
bread and butter what pays the bills for the clinical trial assistant well the
first thing they're gonna be doing is managing the TMF now we talked in the
project management assistant video that they also do TMF as well but they're on
the project management side and they are more of a jack-of-all-trades position
where the CTA is less of a jack-of-all-trades they're gonna be
doing team F they're going to be involved heavily in the TMF that's their
bread and butter that's their number one they may also take meeting minutes but
they're not gonna be taking them like the project coordinator project
assistant position they're gonna be not not take the meeting mints as much they
may have one or two a week or if not at all its more common for CTA not to do
meeting minutes really at all that's that's true for all the CTA's that I
know they are involved heavily in the TMF they are involved heavily in
managing queries and responding to queries and closing out queries so those
are two things that they do a lot of the TMF inquiries
also since they are on the clinical side they're gonna have more interaction with
sites than someone on the project management side would have so they may
talk to sites more often they're definitely gonna be in charge of sending
things to sites that they need like study binders so they're definitely
gonna have all that sites may call them from time to time so they're gonna have
to respond to the site's requests and relay that to the rest of the team the
team being CRA s and the project team so they are gonna be involved in that
capacity as well clinical trial assistants are also going to be doing
some other administrative tasks here and there may be a tracker here and there
but they aren't gonna live in the tracker like a project manager or
project management assistant are gonna be the scope of what a clinical trial
assistant is much smaller than on the project management side but they are
more involved on the clinical aspects of it like the TMF they're gonna be more
involved dealing with the sites so if you like that stuff clinical trial
assistant is definitely a position you should keep an eye out for but I find on
the project management side the scope is much much greater
they're gonna be doing a little bit of this a little bit of that more
jack-of-all-trades the clinical trial assistant is gonna be a little bit more
condensed than what they do what they are involved with which you know there's
pros and cons to both sides not really a bad way but for myself I'm partial to
getting in on the project management side just because you have that wide
array of skill sets you have that wide array of knowledge of the trial
so there's that that's what the CTA does a clinical trial assistant a lot of
companies have that position it's a good position to get your foot in the door in
clinical research if that's what you're looking for
also there are a lot of people who love that role so much that they just stay in
that role for years you can move up you start out as a level one and then you
can move up level two level three senior CTA and the CTA role typically funnels
into either an in-house CRA role or a clinical research associate role yeah of
course you have to get trained after you complete the CTA positions you have to
get trained to go into a CRA role but they're really a good starting point to
get into that role and to eventually get up into upper management so that's a
good place to start if you're looking to get into clinical research once again a
lot of these a lot of companies have that role and it's a great role to get
your foot in the door and get started alright guys if you like this video
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