Clinical researchers are a crucial component to medical, health, and behavioral research, as they serve the integral purpose of interacting with the research participants. Clinical researchers conduct clinical trials, recruit and screen participants, maintain patient care, administer trial drugs and placebos, and submit findings upon completion of the trial. Without these highly-skilled mediators, clinical and human subjects research would be severely limited.
Historically, clinical research coordinators have been nurses. However, the field is losing nurses to early retirement and general attrition. Fortunately, not every clinical researcher needs to have experience as a registered nurse. Moreover, many behavioral health studies might be better suited to clinical researchers who are trained in other fields, such as psychology or sociology.
HHD 410: Clinical Research (CR) and Practice is helping the field diversify the knowledge of the CR workforce and providing a fast track for undergraduates to enter the CR field upon graduation without additional training…
