Clinical Researcher

To keep up with growth, many companies are turning to contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) to assist with product manufacturing. A key benefit CMOs provide is to maintain a manufacturing footprint, and the skilled talent needed to support product manufacturing.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare, promising improved patient outcomes, streamlined drug development, and enhanced diagnostics. Beyond its most immediately recognized advancements, AI is revolutionizing clinical trials and medical device development—areas that clinical research professionals may not yet fully appreciate.

To optimize clinical trial education, key areas of clinical and translational research must be implemented to produce graduates who demonstrate core competencies in the design, conduct, analysis, and monitoring of clinical trials. This paper highlights educational strategies for teaching clinical trials and serves as a basis for future research.

With numerous information systems being necessary to execute a clinical study, what is the best way to train our research workforce? This case study provides an overview of an electronic medical record training conversion from instructor-led to eLearning for clinical researchers at an academic medical center, and further elaborates on training initiatives after onboarding to support competency.

Managers today want new employees to come in and hit the ground running, but you need to spend time up front with these individuals—whether they are research-naïve newbies or seasoned veterans—to get a return on your investment in them. That means defining a full research training and development program tailored to your site to ensure all employees are appropriately trained.