what's what what do you think is next for you do you think I mean I know a lot
of people you know their CRA there's some people that are CRA s for like 20
years or so and they just because I just love the role that much other people
kind of want to you know get off the road and become Li either go back to in
house C arrays or you know CTLs or lead CRA s what do you think is next for you
so next after well I know I want to stay a CRA for a few more years of course so
um ELISA Garibaldi ideal for me I guess in
a few years but after we CRA I would like to transition to the clinical
operations leader raw there's little kind of sight facing but more so client
facing they take up responsibilities for that assigned countries are reached ends
and they basically like coordinate team members with activities to ensure that
the deliverables are met so they're kind of like a manager sort of the project I
guess and then after that I would like to move on to the project to be the role
which is more of the overall project management that's where they deal with
the financials and everything of that and it's more exciting efficient so they
do more work with the sponsor and the site so right yeah yeah I think that's a
that's a key distinction there cuz I first got my start on the project
management side of things and I didn't really have much contact with the sites
at all it was all sponsor facing so I think that's interesting if people want
to get their start on that side as well but then there's the whole like clinical
operations side like you said which is sight facing where they don't have as
much contact with the sponsor so there's there's there's definitely pros and cons
to every entry point yeah but what do you think what what positions do you
feel like are great for people to get into clinical research like I guess if
you could have done it over again would you have chosen a different position
um now I said would have tried to do like that and how CRA positioned or like
a clinical trial associate or I did apply for drug safety associate position
but I think that would be more so with the data management I think that it but
um it's it's hard to like start off at the CRA if you're not you know if you
weren't previously like a study coordinator or under psycho research
nurse so I would have tried to do more of an in-house role I think that's a
good a good way to start yeah I would agree that's probably the
best way if you could really say one is better than the other that's probably
the best way to get your start and then you know what what other positions are
there that people could apply for because you know what people think CRA
CRA that's all they hear in the news and stuff and they think they can just come
from any industry no matter the experience level no matter the education
level and just be a CRA straight up and they hear about all of the you know
demand for CRA s because the demand has been there for a long time now mm-hm
you know every company is pretty much hiring C arrays at all times so would
you say have some of the other positions that people could get in on so I'm
getting like the clinical monitoring associate the CMA position if they see
anything for a CTS or CT a clinical trial specialist or clinical trial
assistant project specialists may be a good route to go I know that's not you
know more site basically be it clinical research experience so I think that'll
be dead as well let me see yeah I can't be the specific names but the positions
they work with like the data management I think that will be good as well
clinical data associate or something yes that I think clinical data analyst
name something like that