hey guys ECR G here back with another episode today we're gonna be talking
about the pros and I don't think there are many cons but definitely the pros of
two day monitoring visits I love two day monitoring visits and
this is something that not a lot of companies do actually a lot of companies
do one day monitoring visit but I want to talk about the two day monitoring
visit just because I think there are a lot of pros that go along with it
and mainly what the industry is experiencing now is CRA turnover in
Burnout and I think this is one tool that companies can use for their
monitoring team to limit CRA turnover and limit CRA burnout but first before I
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of the two day monitoring visit now this is a monitoring visit schedule that I
have been very very fond of lately and that's because the problem was with CRA
turnover in a CRO really is the amount of visits they want you to do in a week
because traveling once a week is fine you get on one flight going one flight
coming back or two flights or however you know you may have a layover or
whatever but one trip going one trip back that's fine but where it really
becomes difficult is when you've got multiple visits in a week some two
sometimes three and so you know and you might string those together but that's a
lot of flights together you know that could end up being four six seven
flights a week and that's a lot for any one person to do and that's just in one
week and then to only have the weekend and then have to do it all over again
the next week and the next week and the next week and the next week and the next
week that can really wear on somebody even the most seasoned of Si Ras and
eventually that could just cause them to want to you know quit and get a
different job you know take a step back and become an in-house CRA or do project
management because they're just tired of that Turner
turn around on those trips now one of the things that this two-day monitoring
visit can do is limit you to only one trip a week at most - because if you do
if you're doing for two days you're gonna be able to spend most of your time
at that site during the week and you're not really gonna have much time else to
do another visit that week sometimes you can squeeze in - but it's not really
recommended because you're gonna be doing a lot more on-site one of the
problems with the 1-day monitoring visit is you can never get anything done
you know I ISF binder reconciliation is always kicked to the curb maybe you
don't visit the pharmacy maybe you don't get to talk to the PI and that has to
wait you know there's a lot of things that you may not get to on site maybe
the study coordinator is busy and can't respond to your queries or finding that
you find anything and that takes a lot of time away from you being able to lock
down the data in a data lock or lock down the data for the pi2 sign-off that
takes a lot of time out of your out of the visit window and the visit if you
know you can't do what you've got to do and the study coordinator doesn't have
time to do what they've got to do and that can really set you back but one of
the things with the two-day visit is it gives you and the study coordinator more
time to work and hopefully be more effective it's gonna make your report a
little bit more robust but that's fine you're gonna get more done a lot more
done so there's gonna also going to be a good amount that's not included in your
report - just because it was resolved on-site which is also good you're gonna
have that's that's one of the main things you can get more done the second
thing is I kind of mentioned this earlier was less CRA turnaround which
really wears down on C arrays over time there's going from one trip to the next
trip to the next trip over and over and over again if you're just traveling once
a week that's fine I think a lot of people can do that and that does not
wear you down nearly as fast as a bunch of trips back to back to back another
thing that that's equally important is you increase CRA enjoyment of the
you know how hard it is to enjoy someplace when you're just there for a
night let's say you get in like four or five o'clock in the afternoon and then
you're on site the next day then have to leave right after your work on site but
if you get a whole another day and a whole another night in that city you get
more to exploit explore more to enjoy about the city weren't to enjoy about
the place you've got to remember one of the big perks of the job is being able
to be in a different city every week or every other week however long you travel
that's one of the biggest perks of the job
and you've got an understand this is this is not an easy job this is a hard
job it's a lot of work it's a lot of time and effort so companies want to
make sure that you're actually get to enjoy the perk of the job and I think
having a two-day visit lets you accomplish that you know if you're in
New York you want to you want to take advantage of every things that New York
has to offer go you want to go out there and Soho and do some shopping while
you're in New York City why not you want to go you know in Brooklyn and get some
pizza I some of my favorite places Rubirosa I know that's in Manhattan
favorite place in Brooklyn is gonna be Roberta's pizza love that place you know
you you want to check out these places you know if you're in Flushing you want
to go get some Asian food you know you wanna you might want to go to a
steakhouse one night in Manhattan etc you want to check out these different
places while you're while you're in these areas and it's a lot easier to do
that when you're there for two days versus just there for a few hours one
day and then have to leave the next day so that's another that's a big big
reason you know when you fly out when you fly out to you know Florida or
something Miami maybe you want to go to the beach too it's it's it's a part of
the job that you get to enjoy you know where you're traveling to and that's a
big big that's really really important and I think that's one of the biggest
reasons why people should think about switching to two-day visits for their
studies if possible another big reason is you increase the relationship with
the site it's just natural you spend twice as long with the site and the
study coordinator and the site staff so the CRA is gonna have
better bond with them and a much better working relationship I don't think I
really need to explain why that's bit helpful but that's helpful and then the
big reason that I think a lot of people should really think about the two day
monitoring schedule is you're gonna decrease CRA turnover for all the
reasons I just mentioned above because there's gonna be a lot more enjoyable
you know a lot of companies aren't gonna do this that's just how it's gonna be so
you can set yourself apart as a company by having a to monitoring a two day
monitoring visit schedule but I think you'll see the benefits just an overall
happiness of the CRA you'll see the benefits because they're able to do more
winner they're able to get more done when they're there you'll see the
overall increase in production from your CRA s2 they're able to spend two days
on-site so something to think about I know the CRO business model is they
build pharma companies for the number of days of C raised on-site so that's
another reason why they only want them on-site for one day so that they build
for one day as opposed to two days and you know that's some of the things that
the the pharma company is gonna stipulate
but I think there are a lot of benefits to the two-day visit - especially if
there's a lot of data points for the CRA to monitor it can be hard and it's very
very hard I know most CRO CRA s do not get everything done that they need to
when they're on site it's just too hard so it's something to think about but I'm
a big fan of to day monitoring visits myself one day monitoring visits are
just not not as fun it's a lot of turnover it's a lot of turnaround and
any time you're going one place one day and coming back the next day
that's just quick turnaround so I like to you know kind of take my time a
little bit more in the two day monitoring business big proponent of
that so if you have any questions or concerns or any more want any more
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