hey guys ecrg here back with another episode today I'm gonna give my thoughts
on Barnett's internet Barnet internationals training courses I'm sure
you guys have heard about this company before they're a company that
specializes in these training courses they offer courses from anywhere from
someone who's interested in data management study coordinator you know
basically any position project management CRA auditors they offer them
across medical devices you know regulatory affairs safety statistics
they are pretty comprehensive with what they offer and the type of courses that
they do offer and I'm sure because of the marketing I'm sure because you know
there's just not much information out there on clinical research you have come
across this company and the reason why I'm doing this is because well this
particular episode is they sent me a kind of like a catalog of courses in the
mail randomly I don't know how I got it but they sent me a catalog of courses
for the 2019 to the 2020 Year of the courses that they're gonna be offering
and I thought this was a great episode topic because one I am going to you know
of course I have the the course catalog right here with me but I've gotten some
questions about training courses that people should take should they take
these courses what situations should they take them in so I'm gonna give my
take on that here in a second but particularly these courses are not cheap
I mean I like to kind of talk about more of this and later on in the episode but
these courses are not cheap and they're taught by someone someone who has a
whole bunch of letters and degrees behind their name and so I could see how
it's easy for someone to think that okay in order to get into clinical research I
need to take one of these courses or taking one of these courses is going to
help me get into clinical research faster and I'm gonna give my take on
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gmail.com and now back to martinet Barnett's is probably the leader when it
comes to training of course they have a whole catalogue here well-done catalogue
so clearly they are not hurting for finances but one of the things that
people talk about is you know wanting to get ice HDCP experience and wanting to
kind of learn about that where you go to learn about that well one of the places
is Barnett's and you want to just learn more about clinical research kind of put
some ticks on your resume about you know you know about these certain topics and
clinical research and especially if you want to you know you're aiming to be a
monitor or project manager it'd be a good idea to go ahead and take these
courses now so you have that experience well I first want to dispel that myth
that you need to do any training courses beforehand other than self trained on
Google you do not need to do that and if you are new to clinical research or you
are you know looking to break into clinical research I would not spend my
hard-earned money on any of these courses now if you're they're offering a
course for free or something like that that's a different story but when it
comes to spending my hard-earned money I'm not spending a dime on these courses
now you might be saying ECR gee that's easy for you to say you know you're been
in the industry a long time now and you've been in the industry a long
time now and you may not you know feel the burden of what it's like to get into
clinical research well that's not true because you know a few years ago when I
was first trying to get into the industry it was hard for me to get an
industry to I talk about all the time how many applications you should apply
for I say shoot for 200 I'm not saying that to be facetious I'm not saying that
to be funny I'm saying that because I actually applied for over 200 positions
trying to get into the clinical research field so I know how hard it is and I
know how much effort it is and it's almost like a full-time job just trying
to break into the industry it took me months to do it so I know about that and
I'm still saying I would not pay a dime for any of these courses now reason
number one is this industry is about experience now know how no matter how
much money these courses cost know how no matter how many degrees the person
teaching it has no matter how many certifications that person has they are
not able to give you experience or any worthwhile experience in a matter of a
day a week to week two weeks out of some facility or something like that it does
it doesn't matter this industry is about experience it does not matter what kind
of fancy degrees you have or what kind of you know whatever you may have this
is experience so the most important thing you can do for your success again
the clinical research is get some experience where that's interning
volunteering working you know a low a low wage job at a clinic whatever it may
be working at a Sierra you know as whatever whatever it may be your best
bet is to get experience now the reason why and a lot of people may not realize
this but the reason why these courses are expensive now you're thinking okay a
course is and I was just looking at thousand six hundred dollars but that's
just for one to two days of instruction why is that expensive per person well
you've got to think a lot of these courses are for business professionals
so that means that their company is paying for these courses it's not them
so that's who these courses are really geared for most likely people are not
gonna be paying for these courses out-of-pocket like for myself the
company I work for they for a stipend you can use yearly to pay
for any type of continuing education and this is something that's across the
industry a lot of places will offer that every year some some way for you to
continue your education a lot of companies will pay for you know your so
core certification they'll pay for your membership in these organizations
they'll pay for that because they want to make sure that you're the best
clinical researcher you can be and one of the best ways to ensure that is to
attend classes like this and to go to conferences and things of that nature so
most of the people companies are paying for it so that's why I would not spend
my hard-earned money that's one of the reasons why I would not spend my
hard-earned money on attending one of these courses because your company
should be paying for the company that you're going to be working for so I kind
of mentioned two things there in one so the first thing you got to think about
is they don't care about what kind of courses you take and they want it they
want experience so it's not gonna help you trying to get into the field - these
are courses are expensive and companies will pay for you to go to these courses
so there's no reason why you should spend it pay for it when a company will
pay for it and trust me that's tax-deductible that's why they're
willing to pay for it so yeah that's two big things why I would not pay for these
courses and you know those are pretty big things because people are always
looking for ways to you know expand their knowledge base and really
understand how they can get into clinical research field and look and you
know barnett is probably the industry leader when it comes to these training
things so that's something to keep in mind but you know they do have you know
for study coordinators new study coordinators are wondering alright how
do I get these iceage GCP training well one way to do it is do it through
Barnett's you're the site will pay for it you don't to pay for it so you'll get
IAC HDCP another way how do you get i8a training the shipping of dangerous goods
I'm not sure if Barnett's offers that but it's another company that offers
that so that's that's that how do you get all these different trainings if you
go to a company like Barnett's and they'll do it for you they have
classes all the time doing this stuff I just passed the ice HDCP course you know
then they offer other courses too some in-person some online they've got all
types of stuff and you can kind of see in the b-roll if you're listening on
YouTube that I just I just kind of shot through the book different shots so you
can kind of see all the different courses that they have you know FDA GCP
inspection findings et MF implementation strategies esource document
initiatives and things of that nature so they've got all types of courses for you
and once again these are really for people that are going to that your
company's gonna pay for and you're already in the industry that's another
thing these are for people that are already in the industry and I don't know
if you got that from what I was saying earlier but that's a big sticking point
you should already be in the industry before you're taking these courses hence
why your company would pay for it because it's really gonna benefit you so
that's my thoughts on that other than that I really wanted to address the
angle that should you do these courses before you are actually in industry
because a lot of people have been asking and the answer is no you should not you
should wait till you're actually in the industry to do these courses because
they're expensive and your company will pay for it but also it's not gonna
really help you because one thing one thing is if you go to the course and you
and you learn something but then you're not in the industry so you're not really
using it on a day to day basis you're likely gonna forget and that knowledge
is just gonna go out out your head you're not gonna be able applying it day
in and day out to so it's really not beneficial and you know that's that's
really why these that's really who these courses are geared for and of course
they'll accept you if you're not with a company if you're not employed they'll
definitely take your money but that's really not who it's geared for and who I
think would get the best benefit out of and you know I just want to let you guys
know because a lot of people that listen to this channel are people that are
trying to get into the field some people are are already in the field
actually a lot of people I don't know the breakdown of the
audience maybe fifty fifty or so but of course a lot of people have come by
Barnett so I've never taken one of their courses
before so I'm not I can't really speak on the quality of their courses I'm sure
they're great they've been around a long time and they do offer a lot of them so
I'm sure they're good but I can say that taking one of their courses likely will
not benefit you in any positive way unless the employer tells you that they
want people that have taken a course or something like that but even so well of
course the thousand dollars over a thousand dollars I would not pay I would
definitely focus more on experience particularly where you're actually
making money to then taking a course because all the stuff that they're
teaching you're gonna gain over time anyway in your own profession or you're
gonna be able to have a company pay for it for you to go so that's something I
would think about when you hear about these training courses definitely if
it's free sure you'll take anything that's free that could potentially help
you but if it's not free and you have to pay I'd be wary of that so I just want
to do this video since I got the catalog thank you guys for listening as always
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interview preparation elite clinical group at gmail.com peace
you