30 Jul For a Stronger Clinical Research Workforce, Don’t Make Onboarding a ‘One and Done’ Process
Hosting a robust onboarding process for introducing entry-level hires to their job responsibilities is clearly a best practice for any industry. Taking things one step further by onboarding both new and promoted employees who are at any step on their career ladder is proving to also be a wise move for the clinical research enterprise, says one experienced observer of trends in the profession.
“It takes about a year to train a study coordinator,” including an initial three-month period of intensive training at Rochester Clinical Research (RCR) in New York, notes Kathleen Ebeling, RN, CCRC, a Study Manager with the site (part of the Atlas Clinical Research network), who presented on “Research Staff Onboarding and Training Essentials” at the ACRP 2024 conference in Anaheim, Calif., in May. “[But when] you work in clinical research, you’re signing up to constantly learn. The position keeps changing and growing; nothing stays the same. Things that are very important now didn’t even exist when I started here [in 2012].” Read more…