Hi folks,
Gathering some info from people who are working as Clinical Scientists or have experience in the clinical field (CRA/CTA/CTM). What are the pre-requisites to cross-over such roles when one has been working on clinical trials for 3 years and managing a lot of clinical data, CROs, cross-functional collaboration being on the Clinical Sciences team? Must-haves and nice-to-haves?
Thanks much in advance!

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For sure, in the UK, one must be HCPC registered as Clinical Scientist to be able to perform under such title - it is protected. I'd strongly recommend looking into their website. Nevertheless, I do believe the described experience on this post would get the applicant quite far. Best of luck!

Genuinely curious, wouldn’t a CRA/CTA/CTM position be a step down for a clinical scientist? I’ve worked w/ a number of clinical scientists at pharma companies. In my experience, clinical scientists were part of lead medical monitoring teams assigned to specific protocols. They are regarded as experts in their assigned clinical trials who were tasked w/ the accurate interpretation of the intent of the study and its protocol to help answer questions from sites and CRAs.

Thanks for your genuine query! Not looking into CTA/CTM/CRA roles. The question was what are the pre-requisites for getting a bon-fide CS/Sr. CS when one has been overseeing clinical trial data (not managing CRAs), managing scientific sections of protocols, IBs, data analysis etc.

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