Job Description: Plan, direct, or coordinate clinical research projects. Direct the activities of workers engaged in clinical research projects to ensure compliance with protocols and overall clinical objectives. May evaluate and analyze clinical data.
What Do Clinical Research Coordinators Do On a Daily Basis?
- Schedule subjects for appointments, procedures, or inpatient stays as required by study protocols.
- Maintain contact with sponsors to schedule and coordinate site visits or to answer questions about issues such as incomplete data.
- Record adverse event and side effect data and confer with investigators regarding the reporting of events to oversight agencies.
- Register protocol patients with appropriate statistical centers as required.
- Review scientific literature, participate in continuing education activities, or attend conferences and seminars to maintain current knowledge of clinical studies affairs and issues.
- Confer with health care professionals to determine the best recruitment practices for studies.
Qualities of a Clinical Research Coordinator
Clinical Research Coordinators state the following job skills are important in their day-to-day work:
- Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
- Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
- Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions.
- Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Tools & Technologies Used by Clinical Research Coordinators
Although they’re not necessarily needed for all jobs, the following technologies are used by many Clinical Research Coordinators:
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Project
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- SAS
- FileMaker Pro
- IBM SPSS Statistics
- R
- Minitab
- Scheduling software
- StataCorp Stata
- Project management software
- Budgeting software
- Patient tracking software
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