Oh Tiffany is being a CRA really hard like is the work actually difficult um I
would say yes and though again I go back to my number one response it's dependent
on your study and dependent on the sponsor dependent on the company you
know what is like I said just basically to study how many visits how much is
captured in the visit what type of study you're on if it's a regular monitoring
where it's like a hundred percent monitoring or if it's the new like they
call it DDM model where it's not a data driven data driven yeah mm-hm
so it really depends and then I will also say it depends on the site you know
if you have a very good site they can make it really easy for you which can
lower the amount of time that you spend cleaning up stuff if you have a site
that's not the greatest then you have a lot of cleanup to do so and you know
then also if you have instances where a site our site staff members are you know
doing things that they're not supposed to be doing like their drawing samples
they haven't even been trained on the protocol you have issues like that so
depending on what kind of issues are at your site I wouldn't necessarily say it
makes it hard because I would say that it's a pretty if you just look at it on
paper it can be an easy job but when you put everything together is when it
becomes hard and when it becomes like stressful because you just have to you
know you have to deal with the sites you have to do the in-house work you have to
do deal with the sponsor so so yeah I would just say is a combination okay the
reason why I ask that question is because you know a lot of people email
us at Ally clinical group calm soft plug about like wanting to get
into the industry and they want to be CRA s and a lot of people think you know
I've got so much experience in this other industry why can't I just be a CRA
off the bat so I want to ask is the work actually hard do you think it'd be hard
for somebody I mean I think it'd be impossible for somebody like off the
streets no experience to be a CRA oh definitely because I think there's a lot
of regulations and there's a lot of just things that we do you know documentation
wise and just company wise in different SOPs and just different things that you
have to abide by so you it's just not a job that you just
walk in off the street and do like you definitely have to put
in the work and learn all of the regulations learn your company specific
SOPs and you know what is required from your company because it's different for
every company what is required from the sponsor because each sponsor is
different each sponsor likes different things so it's definitely not a job that
you would come in and get the hang of in a month right you know it definitely
takes some time to learn but I say when I say it's cut somewhat easy I mean like
after you've taken the time to study what you need to study to get the
knowledge that you need to get that's what I mean I don't mean coming straight
in I mean you have to have some experience behind you right so basically
what you mean is after you put in four years of work like you and I wouldn't
even say four years I would say more than that because even me I'm still
learning different things like even when I go out and do like I was just doing Co
monitoring for one of not one of my sites but one of the other CRA s that is
on my study I went out to Co monitor with her just because they have so many
patients at that site and it's just I learned from her and she's been a senior
she's been doing for 15 plus years so it's a never-ending learning
cycle in this job I feel like you are always learning something you're always
learning from someone just a better way to do things the easy er way to do
things for yourself and you also have to learn just within within the industry
the guidelines are changing you know every day so you also have to be mindful
of that and just like the new the new regulations that are coming out and then
just sponsor specific stuff because getting on the sponsor is just a whole
different topic with like you know just their requirements right and bigger
training requirements oh yeah we could do a whole nother video just on that
yeah so so I say it's definitely not easy and something that you walk in off
the street for but over time I think it becomes well maybe easy it's not the
word for it maybe it's just it becomes you know you become used to what you're
doing and what you're looking for and you know what like with any job with the
more time that you spend doing it you become knowledgeable and you just it's
just easier for you to do because you've been doing it for multiple years got it
all right that makes a lot of sense the second question I have for you is what
is the best CRA perk in your eyes mmm the best CRA curve for me would be the
flexibility okay and what do you what do you mean by that
just the flexibility to set up your own schedule set up when you fly set up you
know just the visits in general okay and the flexibility to work from home or go
in an office if you want to depending on what company you work for okay so which
would you say you work 40 hours a week more or less does append on the week um
I would say if I don't travel I work hours a week if I travel it's more okay
but if I if I do no travel in that week I can work 40 hours that week okay is
there any times where it's less no it's never less than 40 no okay well there it
is no and it's barely it's been 40 if
you're not sure if you're not traveling yeah if I'm not traveling it's 40 but
it's not a I don't have a lot of those weeks got it
okay well thank you so much again for no all right I'll just end it there was
time is that one hour okay perfect okay