Your First Pharma Job

A thorough knowledge of good clinical practice is essential for landing a job as a clinical research associate, assistant, or coordinator.

Instead of paying a lot for an online ICH-GCP training program, you can learn what you need for free from these video seminars.  The site provides a series of lectures covering various aspects of the GCP guidelines.  It was designed to train physicians in South America and it’s affiliated with Pfizer and MIT, so you can trust what they tell you.  The only bad thing about it is that you’ll need to install RealPlayer (or the Real Alternative codec pack).

Here are the lecture topics:

• Clinical Research: An Overview
• Historical Development of International Regulations in Clinical Research
• Overview of the ICH GCP Guidelines
• The Institutional Review Board/The Ethics Committee
• Informed Consent
• Phases of Drug Development
• Clinical Trial Design
• Basic Concepts in Applied Statistics
• Publishing Clinical Trial Results
• Evaluation of a Clinical Research Site
• The Protocol as a Clinical Research Tool
• Trial Documents
• The Responsibilities of Conducting a Clinical Trial
• Clinical Supplies Management
• Safety Reporting Responsibilities
• Guidelines for CRF Completion
• Trial Monitoring
• Audit of a Clinical Trial Site
• Clinical Research in the 21st Century: Areas for Future Research
• ICIC: A Model of a Private Health Institution for Clinical Research

And here’s the link: Good Practices in Clinical Research.

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