hey guys elite clinical research group here today I want to talk about the
three best entry-level jobs to get your foot in the door in clinical research
hey guys a lot of you may know about the main jobs in clinical research project
manager project director may be clinical research associate or clinical trial
manager but you may have a harder time figuring how you can get your foot in
the door in order to get those next-level jobs that you're looking for
well today I'm going to talk about three jobs that you can apply for that are
entry-level jobs that can get your foot in the door into the clinical research
field the first job is a clinical research coordinator now these
individuals work at the site level normally at a big Hospital or a clinical
research center or even at individual clinics and they work hands-on with the
patients they administer inform consent they help facilitate the day-to-day
operations of the clinical research organization they may review and
facilitate weekly monthly and annual reconciliation of patient billing they
may they help recruit patients they help screen patients and they help enroll
patients into the clinical trial they are very very hands-on in the clinical
trial that's why they are at the site level and these are usually people who
have worked in a hospital before maybe a nurse will have an easier time getting
to be a clinical research study coordinator a lot of sites like when a
it's a nurse because the nurse has experience actually dealing with
patients they can help draw blood so they don't have to hire a phlebotomist
on top of that so nurses are really a good fit for this position or really
anybody can do the position as well but especially if you are a nurse and you
have those added patient interaction skills that's definitely a plus when
applying for this position so number one clinical research coordinator the second
position is what's called a clinical trial assistant or a clinical research
assistant some companies call it and the key distinguishing thing about
this position is this is the entry-level position at the CRO level or the farmer
level but particularly at the CRO level so the clinical research coordinator was
at the site level the clinical trial assistant is at the CRO level and what
the CTA does this often called does is they may assist with case report forms
they may help resolve queries they definitely have a good strong
understanding of the TMF because they're gonna be the ones responsible for
updating the documentation gain the documentation from the sites and from
the CRA s and updating that into the trial master file some CTAs may even
take meeting minutes for the CRA CMA call or any other calls it really can
depend and differ based on the organization that you're working for but
the CTA is on the clinical side of things and will typically work more
closely with the site so they will work closely with the clinical research
coordinators from the sites and usually have a decent relationship with them as
well as the clinical trial lead at the CRO level and have a good relationship
with them as well so CTA is another position in which you can get your foot
in the door in clinical research and the next level up is particularly either an
in-house CRA or a CRA so if you're interested in that route it's a good
place to get started and the third and final entry-level position to get your
foot in the door in clinical research is project specialist or project
coordinator and this is really the right-hand person of the project manager
the project manager has the division of the clinical trial but the project
specialist is really there to do the day-to-day things like add people to
metadata update the shared mailboxes basically help keep things in order
for the project manager and for the project team
they will also help with trial master files like the CTA but the project
specialist and project coordinator are on the project management side of things
which deals more with the sponsor so they're not gonna have as much interface
with the site's only in certain situations like the CTA would but the
project specialist and project coordinator positioned and there may be
some other names floating around there for that position as well this just
depends on the organization but they're gonna be more directed towards sponsor
work but they will do some trial master file they will also deal with case
report forms they will also have to deal with working with project managers and
CTLs and some of the clinical personnel they are really just a
jack-of-all-trades they're gonna do meeting minutes also this is definitely
something I'm gonna be doing because on the sponsor side of things there's
meeting minutes for that and then there's internal calls that they're
meeting minutes for as well so the people on the project management side of
things will definitely have to do that I first got my start in the industry on
the project managing on the project management side as a project coordinator
so I'm partial to this position and I think it's a great way to get your foot
in the door because it gives you a strong foundation and there's really not
much that specifically the prompt every project specialist a project coordinator
might do because they really are a jack-of-all-trades they do a little bit
of everything so some project coordinators I know all
they do is TMF or others they've met they'd ever do TMF I do some vendor
management others might be in the process of
cleaning up their project coin cleaning up their shared mailboxes doing things
that way so it really just depends on the project manager that you work for
and the company you work at but in my experience they're really a
jack-of-all-trades and a great way to get your foot in the door so if you're
looking to get your foot in the door in clinical research
I recommend start looking at clinical research coordinator project coordinator
and clinical trial assistant they'll give you a good start to the
clinical research field a good foundation to base your knowledge off
and then you can work your way up from there alright guys if you like this
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