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‘Other Duties as Assigned’: The Wide-Ranging Role of the CRC Professional

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The authors may not have meant those “opportunities” to involve things like a CRC setting their alarm for 2 a.m.

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Clinical Research Jobs: How to Choose the Right Career Path

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Clinical research is part of a growing industry that provides individuals with rewarding career options and a ladder to climb. Working in the clinical trials industry allows clinical researchers to work with patients and bring new drugs to market. Clinical Research Coordinator.

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Workforce and Patient Engagement Issues Capture Attention at ACRP 2024

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Operating in a largely rural area including the Dakotas, where the pandemic “wiped out” much of the clinical research coordinator (CRC) workforce, Sanford Health realized “we’ve got to do something different,” so it developed its own online CRC certificate program to educate and recruit new talent for its sites, according to Black.

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ACRP 2023 Speakers Emphasize Impacts of Quality and Diversity on Clinical Trial Sites

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Discussing the modernization of clinical trials in light of the pandemic and even larger, ongoing trends, David Burrow, PharmD, JD, Director, Office of Scientific Investigations, Office of Compliance, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. What is ‘true’ today may not be true tomorrow.

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Assessing Staff Workload and Maximizing Site Performance

ACRP blog

Assessing the capacity of a clinical research coordinator (CRC) is one of many challenges involved in managing clinical trials—which are heterogeneous and increasingly complex, with rising regulatory burdens and tight budgets. Taking the guesswork out of assigning trials. Author: Jill Dawson.

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Blazing a Trail in Clinical Research

ACRP blog

Complexity in trial design increases resource demands at trial sites, burdens study participants, and creates costlier, longer development cycles (Getz, Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development). As AI becomes more present in our lives, how can it help clinical research?

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Professionals and Patients Offer Mixed Views on Retail Pharmacy Chains’ Enthusiasm About Trials

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“With retail pharmacies entering the clinical trial space, investigative sites are left with little information around how this move will affect them or their patients,” says Emily Botto, Senior Research Analyst at the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD) and a scheduled presenter at the ACRP 2024 conference in Anaheim, Calif.