前言

大家好，我是临研圈内容合作官Daisy Lin，同时也是一名从业数年的CRA。

身为CRA，听到太多身边的同事在抱怨，抱怨出差过多、抱怨项目太烂、抱怨研究者依从性不高……与其抱怨不如看到工作中阳光的一面。作为一个药学专业的毕业生，我很庆幸能够加入临床试验这个行业，恰巧前些日子看到1位工作于科文斯的美国CRA访谈！主要内容是分享了她热爱CRA这份工作的原因及对该职业生涯的建议。

下面是访谈原文，简单翻译后，分享给大家，希望大家每一天都很阳光、开心。

我们邀请了科文斯的CRA Michelle，来聊聊她的故事，并讲述她为什么热爱自己的工作! We asked Michelle, a CRA at Covance, to give her story and describe why she loves her job!

CRA的一天从来都不是一成不变的，这是这份工作的一个重要属性。有时你醒来可能要直奔机场，出差去中心；有时，你可能要去办公室，在办公室待上一两天，然后又开始出差。如果去出差，你可能会到中心，做研究监查。在那里你需要和不同的研究者和协调员沟通，确保研究进展顺利。真的，每一天都不一样。这是这份工作最棒的部分之一。出差时，你可能一周要去好几个中心，或者一周只去一个中心。但一般来说，CRA的一天要么在出差，要么在办公室处理一些事务。A day in the life of a CRA is never really consistent, which is one of the very great aspects of this job. Some days you wake up and might go straight to the airport to travel, to go to a site. Other days you might come in to the office, to have an office day or two, and then start traveling again. So if you’re gonna go to the airport and travel you would go to the site and you would monitor the study. There you would talk with various physicians and different coordinators at the site, and make sure that the study is running well. Really, every day is different. Its one of the best parts of this job. When you’re traveling, you could go to multiple sites a week, or you could go to one site a week. But a typical day is either traveling, or coming in to the office and take care of some office duties.

作为CRA，我最喜欢的一点就是每天都是一次新的冒险。这份工作绝对不无聊，总是有新的东西出现。我在出差途中遇到了一些非常有趣的人，他们有着各种不同的背景，他们的故事让路途很有趣。我非常喜欢这份工作中出差的部分，你可以看到你从未想过会去的地方，我曾去过新泽西州外的一个小镇，光看地图我肯定不会选择去那个小镇，那里非常漂亮。所以我喜欢这样的事情，它们从不会让人觉得无聊。你总能去新的城市，遇到有故事的新朋友。作为CRA，你会经历所有上述这些，这是这份工作非常独特的地方。The thing I like most about being a CRA is the fact that every day is a new adventure. This job is definitely not boring. Its always something new. I have met some really interesting people on the way, who have all kinds of different backgrounds, and it is so interesting to hear their stories as I travel. the traveling part is definitely something I like much about this job. You get to see places you never thought you would go, I was just in small town outside New Jersey, and that is never a town I would pick on the map to go to, and it was very beautiful. So its things like that I like, where its never a dull moment. You’re always going to a new city, meeting somebody new with a good story. As a CRA you get to experience all that and its something very unique about this job.

我最喜欢在大型CRO公司工作的一个原因是，我的公司非常重视人才培养，每个人都互相支持。如果有问题，你可以问公司里的任何一个人。不管什么职级，什么岗位，甚至是否在你的团队，他们通常都会给你指出正确的方向，这是一个非常友善且有趣的环境。每个人都很努力工作，但同时他们也愿意互相了解。这是一个非常开放、有益和友好的环境。The thing I like most about working for a big CRO is that my company is very nurturing, everybody seems to have each others back. If you have questions you can go to just about anybody in the company. It doesn’t matter their rank, it doesn’t matter what job they have, or even if they’re on your team. They usually point you in the right direction. Its a very welcoming environment. And its a fun environment to. Everyone works really hard, but at the samt time they are willing to get to know each other. And its a very open, helpful and welcoming environment.

我的CRA入门培训是一段美妙的经历。在进入这个工作之前，我个人没有任何监查经验，所以我参加了3个月的培训。这是一个非常有指导意义的过程，我从来没有觉得自己被扔到了一个不舒服的环境中。The initial training I received as a CRA was actually a wonderful experience. I personally did not have any monitoring experience before I came into this job so I went through a 3 month process of training. This was a very guided process, I never felt I was thrown in to a situation that I didn’t feel comfortable with.

我有一位导师和一位经理指导我，此外还有其他培训师和其他CRA，所有人都在互相帮助。因此，在这3个月的过程中，我学会了有关监查的一切，从中心的实际工作到联邦法规。你会在几个月内学到最重要的东西。这是一次很棒的经历，当独自一人外出工作的时候，我感觉很自在，而且我也知道培训结束后如果有问题该去哪里。在工作的第三年，我还参加了CRA证书的课程和考试，我强烈建议当你有了一定工作经验，就可以参加这类的培训和考试。I also had a mentor that helped to guide me, and I had a manager that helped guide me, on top of other trainers and other CRAs. Everybody was helping everybody. So during that 3 month process I got to learn everything about monitoring, from actually going to the site to federal regulations. You learn the most important in a couple of months. It was a great experience, and once I was out on my own I felt very comfortable, and I also did know where to go if I had questions after leaving training. During my third year I also took a course and exam to get a CRA certificate, which I highly can recommend once you have gained some experience.

我认为在一个大的CRO公司的职业发展机会几乎是无限的。我们公司的亮点之一是他们非常愿意让你获得职业发展，如果你投入时间，展现出你对公司的贡献，他们也将回报你。我认为你作为CRA学到的技能会帮助你在临床研究工作中有所发展，无论是进入监管领域还是进入管理层等等。所有的东西你都可以了解一点，这对你的职业生涯有很大的帮助。I think that the career advancing opportunities at a large CRO are almost unlimited. One of the highlights of my company is that they are very willing to let you advance your career, if you put you’re time in and if you show that you’re dedicated to the company. Then they are dedicated to you. And I think that the skills that you learn as a CRA sets you up to advance in clinical research. Whether its going into regulatory area or whether its moving up to management etc. You get to see a little bit of everything, and its a great job to actually advance your career.

译者介绍

Daisy

某知名外资CRO公司SCRA，拥有5年临床监查经验

话题：

如果有2家CRO公司，

A公司重视员工人才培养，

B公司薪酬待遇大幅高于行业平均，

你会选择哪家？

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