Career Details
11-9121.01 - Clinical Research Coordinators
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.
Key Facts

Tasks

Core
- Review scientific literature, participate in continuing education activities, or attend conferences and seminars to maintain current knowledge of clinical studies affairs and issues.
- Prepare for or participate in quality assurance audits conducted by study sponsors, federal agencies, or specially designated review groups.
- Perform specific protocol procedures such as interviewing subjects, taking vital signs, and performing electrocardiograms.
- Develop advertising and other informational materials to be used in subject recruitment.
- Confer with health care professionals to determine the best recruitment practices for studies.
- Track enrollment status of subjects and document dropout information such as dropout causes and subject contact efforts.
- Review proposed study protocols to evaluate factors such as sample collection processes, data management plans, or potential subject risks.
- Record adverse event and side effect data and confer with investigators regarding the reporting of events to oversight agencies.
- Prepare study-related documentation, such as protocol worksheets, procedural manuals, adverse event reports, institutional review board documents, or progress reports.
- Participate in the development of study protocols including guidelines for administration or data collection procedures.
- Oversee subject enrollment to ensure that informed consent is properly obtained and documented.
- Order drugs or devices necessary for study completion.
- Organize space for study equipment and supplies.
- Maintain contact with sponsors to schedule and coordinate site visits or to answer questions about issues such as incomplete data.
- Instruct research staff in scientific and procedural aspects of studies including standards of care, informed consent procedures, or documentation procedures.
- Inform patients or caregivers about study aspects and outcomes to be expected.
- Identify protocol problems, inform investigators of problems, or assist in problem resolution efforts, such as protocol revisions.
- Direct the requisition, collection, labeling, storage, or shipment of specimens.
- Contact outside health care providers and communicate with subjects to obtain follow-up information.
- Communicate with laboratories or investigators regarding laboratory findings.
- Collaborate with investigators to prepare presentations or reports of clinical study procedures, results, and conclusions.
- Code, evaluate, or interpret collected study data.
- Assess eligibility of potential subjects through methods such as screening interviews, reviews of medical records, or discussions with physicians and nurses.
- Schedule subjects for appointments, procedures, or inpatient stays as required by study protocols.
- Monitor study activities to ensure compliance with protocols and with all relevant local, federal, and state regulatory and institutional polices.
- Maintain required records of study activity including case report forms, drug dispensation records, or regulatory forms.
Supplemental
- Solicit industry-sponsored trials through contacts and professional organizations.
- Register protocol patients with appropriate statistical centers as required.
- Participate in preparation and management of research budgets and monetary disbursements.
- Interpret protocols and advise treating physicians on appropriate dosage modifications or treatment calculations based on patient characteristics.
- Contact industry representatives to ensure equipment and software specifications necessary for successful study completion.
- Dispense medical devices or drugs, and calculate dosages and provide instructions as necessary.
- Arrange for research study sites and determine staff or equipment availability.
Knowledge

- 85%Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- 75%Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- 75%Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
- 65%Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
- 59%Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- 59%Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
- 58%Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- 57%Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
- 54%Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
- 53%Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
- 52%Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
- 52%Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
- 50%Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
Tools

- Smartphones
- Laptop computers
- Personal computers
- Photocopiers
- Laser facsimile machines
- Digital video equipment
Technology

- Microsoft ProjectHOT
- Project management software
- Microsoft OfficeHOT
- Budgeting software
- Microsoft WordHOT
- Microsoft PowerPointHOT
- Scheduling software
- Microsoft ExcelHOT
- Drug coding software
- 5AM Glassbox Translational Research
- ClearTrial
- Clinical data management system CDMS
- DZS Software Solutions ClinPlus
- FileMaker Pro
- InforSense InforSense
- Invivo Data EPX ePRO Management System
- KIKA Veracity
- Microsoft AccessHOT
- Online data collection systems
- OpenClinica
- Oracle Clinical
- PPD Patient Profiles
- PPD eLoader
- PercipEnz Technologies OnCore-Clinical Research Management OnCore-CRM
- Phase Forward InForm GTM
- Sierra Scientific Software CRIS
- StudyManager Sponsor Edition
- SyMetric Sciences SyMetric
- TOPAZ Enterprise Software Suite
- ePharmaSolutions eMVR
- Electronic data capture EDC software
- IBM SPSS StatisticsHOT
- InferMed MACRO Electronic Data Capture
- MinitabHOT
- Qualitative analysis software
- SASHOT
- StataCorp Stata
- The MathWorks MATLABHOT
- Patient tracking software
- Web browser software
- Microsoft OutlookHOT
- Google Meet
Certifications

- Certified Physician Investigator500 Montgomery Street, Suite 800 Alexandria, VA 22314
- Certified Clinical Research Professional530 West Butler Avenue Suite 109 Chalfont, PA 18914800-762-7292
- Certified Clinical Research Coordinator500 Montgomery Street, Suite 800 Alexandria, VA 22314
- Clinical Trial Investigator500 Montgomery Street, Suite 800 Alexandria, VA 22314
- Certified Clinical Trial Investigator500 Montgomery Street, Suite 800 Alexandria, VA 22314
- Certified Clinical Data Manager
- Certification for Institutional Review Board (IRB) Professionals
- Certified Professional IACUC Administrator
- Certified Research Administrator
- Certified Pre-Award Research Administrator
- Certified Clinical Research Associate500 Montgomery Street, Suite 800 Alexandria, VA 22314
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The Bachelor of Arts degree is for the student interested in studying physics, but who is likely to pursue a career in a related field, or a field which requires an analytical mind. The Bachelor of Science degree is for those planning a career in physics or engineering, and for those considering going on to graduate school.
A student interested in a degree in engineering, but who also wants the benefits of a liberal arts education can elect the engineering physics major. See Engineering Physics for a description of the interdisciplinary major.
In addition to laboratory work, the Department also supports an active program of field studies. The location of the College in the Piedmont region of Virginia permits access to the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially the Blue Ridge Parkway, to two National Forests, to the Atlantic Ocean and coastal plain, and to the Washington, D.C., area for trips to the National Zoo and the Smithsonian Institution. Local trips are made to the Blackwater Creek Natural Area and to the College's nature preserves.
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The Bachelor of Arts degree is for the student interested in studying physics, but who is likely to pursue a career in a related field, or a field which requires an analytical mind. The Bachelor of Science degree is for those planning a career in physics or engineering, and for those considering going on to graduate school.
A student interested in a degree in engineering, but who also wants the benefits of a liberal arts education can elect the engineering physics major. See Engineering Physics for a description of the interdisciplinary major.
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The study of computer science offers students the opportunity to develop problem solving facility and helps develop skills which have broad utility in theory and application and are amongst the most sought-after by employers. The abstraction of real-world problems, the construction of algorithms to display and transform data, and the theory of computation are all central concerns of computer science. The minor in computer science can be effectively combined with any major. Whether studied with professional goals in mind, to supplement the study of any other field, or just for interest's sake, computer science offers a powerful way to approach many challenging problems. When combined with selected courses in mathematics and physics, the minor will help prepare the student for graduate work in computer science and related fields.
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The Bachelor of Arts degree is for the student interested in studying physics, but who is likely to pursue a career in a related field, or a field which requires an analytical mind. The Bachelor of Science degree is for those planning a career in physics or engineering, and for those considering going on to graduate school.
A student interested in a degree in engineering, but who also wants the benefits of a liberal arts education can elect the engineering physics major. See Engineering Physics for a description of the interdisciplinary major.
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A Bachelor of Science is offered jointly by the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics and the Department of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research. In the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, students pursuing the Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Sciences can choose a concentration of secondary teacher preparation, which prepares students for teaching mathematics in secondary schools when completed in conjunction with the Master of Teaching degree offered through the School of Education as part of the Extended Teacher Preparation Program.
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