Riding In Cars With Researchers

Today we are talking to patients about the level of training of the research staff seeing you in a research trial.  I have a dirty little secret to share with you.  There are a lot of undertrained people in the research industry.  A lot.  There are a lot of research coordinators that have not had adequate training and support when they get into research.  There are research coordinators who’ve been in research for years, but if you test them, they cannot pass a test on their research knowledge.  Meaning they haven’t learned all that much.  And the same is true in physicians.  There are physicians that are very competent physicians, have little to no research experience, but are given the ability to be Investigators in research trials.  That is a dirty little secret in our industry.  And that is something we need to stop; something we need to fight against.