Clinical Research Coordinators
- Bright Outlook
- Rapid Growth
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 you’d do
- Schedule subjects for appointments, procedures, or inpatient stays as required by study protocols.
- Perform specific protocol procedures such as interviewing subjects, taking vital signs, and performing electrocardiograms.
- Assess eligibility of potential subjects through methods such as screening interviews, reviews of medical records, or discussions with physicians and nurses.
- Prepare study-related documentation, such as protocol worksheets, procedural manuals, adverse event reports, institutional review board documents, or progress reports.
- Inform patients or caregivers about study aspects and outcomes to be expected.
- Record adverse event and side effect data and confer with investigators regarding the reporting of events to oversight agencies.
- Monitor study activities to ensure compliance with protocols and with all relevant local, federal, and state regulatory and institutional polices.
- Oversee subject enrollment to ensure that informed consent is properly obtained and documented.
Skills that matter
- Active Listening
- Reading Comprehension
- Writing
- Coordination
- Speaking
- Critical Thinking
How to get there
Considerable preparation: most need a four-year bachelor's degree
Also called
- Clinical Program Manager
- Clinical Research Coordinator
- Clinical Trial Manager
- Research Coordinator
- Clinical Coordinator
- Clinical Program Coordinator
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