hey guys Serg here back with another episode today I've got a very very
unique question coming from one of our subscribers one of our listeners over on
YouTube actually so if you are actually interested in putting over a question
you can comment down below any of the YouTube videos or you can email me at
Alli clinical group at gmail.com this is very good
for if you have a unique question or a unique circumstance and you want my take
on how you should go about it in the clinical research space so I've got a
very unique question here and this one comes from I'm not gonna say this
person's name but I think this will be very applicable for you for you all so
here we go we should she says I'm a Vietnamese pharmacist student who wants
to enter the clinical research world I am planning to study abroad and work as
a CRA in Canada can you recommend some undergraduate graduate programs I can
apply for in order to pursue the CRA career thank you so much so this is a
question that I get in different iterations a lot about how to pursue CRA
how do I become a CRA or how do I get into the clinical
research field or I mean I'm in this area actually just got another question
about someone who is in lab based research and wants to come over to
clinical based research so well that videos coming soon too but I get
iterations of this question a lot so for this person it says she's a Vietnamese
pharmacist and so I don't know if that means that there's someone who's
Vietnamese and lives in America or they live in Vietnam or what that
specifically means but we'll go over those different scenarios so if you're a
pharmacist in America and you want to be in the clinical research world my my my
recommendation to you is this should actually be fairly easy we're look up
pharma companies or sponsors they actually hire pharmacists all the time
actually and I'm not quite sure I remember off the top of the head what
the name of the position is but they do have positions you know I I work for a
sponsored company and they have pharmacists on staff
actually so that should be a very easy transition to do so look up you know
your mercs your Pfizer's your your Bayers your you know look at these big
pharmaceutical companies your you know bristol-myers Squibb you can look at
these big pharmaceutical companies just look at the top ones go on their
websites see what jobs require you to have a farm D or a pharmacist degree so
look those up apply for those and just get your foot in the door and then you
can move around from there now if this person is in Vietnam and is planning to
move to Canada to become a Sea Array it looks like they're trying to look for
some schooling or something to kind of give them a foundation so I would not
actually recommend schooling to be in clinical research unless you have
specifically talked to people who think that it would be better like you talked
to a company who says hey you should probably get an undergraduate degree you
might want to think about getting a certificate or something like that but
this is a very very experience driven industry this industry is all about
experience they do not care about your degrees once again I've worked with
people that have PhDs that have do s that have foreign medical degrees in my
lower level entry-level job positions because you have a degree does not
guarantee you will have a good job does not guarantee you'll be able to be a CRA
does not guarantee you anything than the fact that you have a degree so I would
actually strongly recommend you go for experience so how do you get experience
in clinical research well this is where it's a good opportunity to volunteer
this is a good opportunity to intern this is a good opportunity for you to
take that entry-level position we've gone over the best entry level positions
in clinical research on this channel a number of times you got clinical trial
assistant you've got a project specialist project coordinator associate
project managers you've got you know a number of these clinical data associates
there's so many positions out there that are interesting that you might you know
be able to get your foot in the door in so I would strongly recommend that and
it totally changes now it's very hard to get in you know it could take hundreds
of jobs applique just to get in but you you have a
pharmacist background so it looks like you might be able to get in faster but
you know it's it's very it's very hard to get in but once you get that
experience it changes I remember I did a three-month contract position that was
my first job in clinical research and after those three months it was very
easy I started getting a lot more callbacks less of my resume started
getting rejected it was a complete game-changer and I noticed I noticed the
difference right off the bat and you will notice a difference too so I
recommend get experienced anyway you can do those few months immediately change
your resume update your resume and if you have trouble with that guys we can
help you I've helped out a number of clients already and actually just heard
back from one earlier today about getting a CRA position so we'll do
another video on that too but we can help you update your resume but that's
what you want to do is update your resume make it as succinct as possible
and you know reapply to jobs apply again to more jobs so that's just that's just
a process get experience update your resume repeat and you know that that's
pretty much my advice for you now as far as you know coming from Vietnam and
going into Canada or coming from u.s. to Canada I'm not as well-versed on those
immigration specifics and how that stuff works I live in America so you know a
lot of my viewpoint and a lot of my you know advice is based on American advice
now I have worked with people all over the globe in clinical research so I I do
understand that aspect but as far as like moving from country to country and
how to get in clinical research here and that I'm not as well-versed there so
take what I'm saying you know lightly but also I do know that this is very
experience driven and you want to get experience any way you can so I hope
this was helpful if any of you guys have any questions you want me to answer
personally you can email me Ali clinical group at gmail.com I know some of these
situations you know are pretty specific but if you want you want your questions
to be answered specifically you email me there alright guys take care