A few months ago, I left my three years’ marketing job in the automotive industry and started a new exciting journey at Flex Databases, eClinical software developer.
Hard start in the clinical research world
I knew that clinical research is complicated from my interviews and some research, so I decided to start learning during my notice period. Good Clinical Practice became my very first piece of related literature. After a fascinating evening of reading, I felt fresh off the boat. I was buried under an avalanche of abbreviations, terms, effective dates. I was terrified.
Monitor is a human, not a desktop
Notice period passed, I’ve read a few more books and searched some websites and arrived both ready and smashed to my first day. It was the moment when I met our e-clinical platform, and most importantly, for me, as a clinical trials beginner, our Learning Management System (LMS).
During my first weeks, LMS became a start-with-in-the-morning thing for me – everything I needed was there, all training materials and SOPs. When you start a job in a new industry, it is easy to make dozens of rookie mistakes. I felt somehow stupid when I discovered that the monitor was a human, not a desktop. I got to know that I don’t have to worry about effective dates – if there is an SOP change, I will get a notification from the system. I don’t have to worry about missing anything important in my training – learning materials for my position were predefined in the system. I also got access to other useful but unnecessary materials like soft skills training when I had time to browse it.
My other big relief, together with LMS, was regulator websites. If you’re new to clinical trials – I highly recommend you browse through them.
And here we are
By the end of my training, I was ready and excited. I left my smashed terrifying feeling behind. There are three main reasons for this: our amazing team, high training materials, and an automated LMS.
At the end of this piece of personal experience, I would say that I think every new employee in any company passes the same path as I did, one way or another. Software like our LMS is usually promoted as a big help for a company from a managerial side or in case of audits and inspections – but it also makes a life of an employee easier.
As always, DIA 2023 was mostly about the people we meet & talk to, but there is a big second value to it – the talks, the ideas and insights that we get during the conference. Let’s take a look at what’s hot in Boston!
Flex Databases has become a member of CRISI – The Clinical Research Interoperability Standards Initiative, developing a comprehensive library of standard APIs. We are proud to be a part of this initiative and impact a life-changing API standardization process.
Our BD&Marketing Director Evgenia Michalčuk-Vráblík has recently set down with LifeScience Review reporter to talk about the No-Code approach that Flex Databases is leading in CTMS world and how it benefits our client’s business operations.
All the guidelines mentioned say that the approach toward computerized systems used in clinical practice (e.g., regarding validation) should be risk proportionate.
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