hey guys which would you choose Data Manager or TMF specialist coming up
right after the intro hey guys ECR G here back with another video today
we've got a viewer-submitted question and this view are actually common - down
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management or TMF as a TMS specialist now if you are interested in asking any
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my prep there so give us a call there if interested in that but as far as data
management versus TMS specialist go this person was really interested in the
career growth of it because I think they were a TMS specialist already well
there's some good news and bad news here so TMS specialist is you know relatively
new ish over the past couple of years sponsors and CEOs are getting more and
more interested in having a clean TMF because that is something that is really
put on the backburner during the entire study because they're putting out fires
elsewhere and then when it's time to deliver the TMF to the spa
sir the TMF looks really bad there's tons of missing documents there's 1572 s
that are missing there are people not on the delegation log there's delegation
logs missing they're monitoring letters that are missing all of that has to be
gathered from the site or the CRA and put into the TMF so they that they have
actually put a person in charge a team of specialists they're called or TMF
manager and they are in charge and directly report to the project
management team on the status of the TMF now this is a very important position
because the TMF is the most important deliverable to the sponsor once again
i'ma say it again the TMF is the most important deliverable to the sponsor so
they actually are putting someone in charge now so that's good and team of
specialists can make some pretty good money too but the downside is I believe
that kind of pigeonholes you because now you're only used to managing TMF and
setting up TMS and analyzing the health of the TMF so if you just want to be
pigeonholed and do have one move then you could do TMF specialists now I've
never been a team of specialists but from what I get from the outside looking
in it's very you know kind of niche in that sense that you're only gonna be
doing a couple of different things and you know it's it's a good place to be
because you're gonna be really good at TMF and understand the ins and outs of
the TMF but I think that's definitely a like a stepping stone to something else
maybe a project manager or you know something else in the CRO world
definitely project management being one of them but as a data management as the
data management professional I would prefer that because for one it is a
somewhat easy transition into the clinical side of things clinical
operations so monitoring because they work hand in hand with see Ras and you
know in-house monitors monitoring the data so they work together so I feel
like it's a somewhat of an easy transition if you
go from data management to the clinical operations side of the business and also
data is gonna be huge I don't know if you've noticed but our
phones collect data you're listening either on you know Facebook Instagram
well however you listening to this anchor they're collecting data on you
and of course that data has to be analyzed and that person is either gonna
be a Data Manager or some data management professional so I love data
management because you know everything is collecting data and they're gonna
need people to do to analyze it so even if something had bad happens in the
clinical research field and the business all of a sudden goes to zero there's no
more you know companies to work for in clinical research space and it all goes
to zero I feel like data managers will have a
relatively easier time getting picked up elsewhere because of that data
analyzation and data management skill set so I feel like that's a very very
popular skill set or it's not popular enough but it will be getting more
popular as we get more and more data and we need more and more people to handle
that all this data so I would prefer data management because I think it has a
lot more uses outside of TMF TMF is very specific to this industry and I never
like having being stuck with only one move I like B I like developing skills
that are applicable elsewhere too so that's something to think about but
really you know they're asking which way should you go I mean I think data
management only goes so high also if you want to make it to the executive level
you've got to go into the project management route so you go project
manager project director and then up to vice-president of a department or
something like that so I feel like you could do both do a couple years in data
management do a couple years in TMF and then I feel like you have a very good
chance to make it as a project manager after that because you understand two
fundamental parts of the clinical trial process
you've got the TMF aspect which is increasingly popular and then you've got
the data management aspect and a project manager really is somebody that
raise all these things they get you know clinical updates they get data
management updates they get study startup updates they get TMF updates so
if you have worked in all those units you know if you do a year data
management a year TMF a year study startup a year you know monitoring then
you you have understood and been on the ground level of every single aspect of
being a project manager and I think the only thing you're missing is probably
the finance and budgeting part which you would learn as a project manager so I
feel like hey if you're in one of those you can jump to another one if you're in
TMF you can jump to data management if you're in data management you can jump
to TMF and you may have to start out at the bottom in that in that arena in that
department but that's okay because you have long term goals out of that but as
far as like sticking into one and then you know rising up through that I think
either way you've got to get into project management unless you just
unless you go sales or something like that but if I was choosing what I prefer
data management because I feel like it has a lot more applicability outside the
industry and I think there's gonna be a lot of focus on data management also I
hope that answers your question if you've got any other questions on data
management or TMF specialists I know I've done a video on exactly what a TMF
specialist is so make sure you check that out since this question came up I'm
gonna do a video on what a data management person is and going a lot
more detail on what they do on a day to day basis so if you're in this if you're
listening this video and you're in the industry and you feel like you've got a
unique perspective then reach out to us I'd love to interview you have you on
learn about your story and we can share that to the rest of the listeners also
so once again email us a leak clinical group at gmail.com if you'd like to
connect and be interviewed on this or if you just want to reach out to touch base
etc etc so what do you think Dan management or TMF what are you choosing
alright guys take care