Clinical research India is a new knowledge and flourishing industry. It is one of the industries growing at an extraordinary rate in few decades and opening up a wide scope of job opportunities for trained professionals.
What is clinical research?
Clinical Research is a scientific examination of the effect, risks and advantages of medicines or medicinal products. The examinations are done before initiating the products in the market.
Educational qualification in clinical research will help you enough.
TERMS RELATED TO CLINICAL RESEARCH
1. Clinical Research Associate (CRA) - It is a healthcare professional performs activities related to clinical trials. They are the soul in the field of Clinical Research.
2. Clinical data management (CDM) - It is a critical phase in clinical research. CDM leads to the generation of superior quality, dependable, and statistically well aware data from clinical trials.
3. Clinical Research Organization (CRO) - A CRO landscape is huge; using a CRO’s art you can maximize the efficiency of your clinical examination.
DIFFERENT CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN CLINICAL RESEARCH
1. Clinical Research Coordinator
2. Clinical Research Associate
3. Clinical Monitor or Trial Monitor
4. Research Nurses or Site Managers
5. Data Manager
6. Clinical Research Scientist
7. The Biostatistician
8. The Clinical Quality Assurance Auditor
9. Clinical Safety Analyst
10. The Medical Writer etc
ADVANCEMENT IN FUTURE
We envisage the future of clinical trials arriving in three, successive stags.
The next stage will take the benefit of new technologies and start-up creations.
The near stage will deal with the high percentage of increasingly complicated clinical data sources and engage patients to research remotely.
The horizon indicates a trajectory towards global clinical trials and a capacity promised land of patient-free trials.
CURRENT SCENARIO
India presently occupies only a small quiche of the global market. The total numbers of clinical trials conducted in India were 221 in 2007 and had increased to just over 700 trials in 2008.
Although there was an increase of 65%, it associates with only a single digit percentage of the global clinical trial market. The country is projected to conduct nearly 5% of the global clinical trials by 2012.
However, to achieve its goal of becoming a global centre of clinical trials, the country has to overcome a few challenges.
Top global pharmaceutical firms like Pfizer, Glaxo Smith Kline, Aventis, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly are conducting clinical trials in India apart from the Indian corporations like Dr Reddys, Nicholas Piramal, Cipla and Lupin.
BENEFIT IN INDIA
India has the advantage of having a huge population, well-equipped hospitals, educated doctors, government initiatives and low cost.
The population of over 1 billion with a life expectancy of 65 years, a large number of patients who are suffering from various illnesses, heterogeneous and high enrolment rates provides an opportunity for clinical examination institutions. More than 15000 hospitals provide the opportunity to select the best with well-trained doctors of over 500,000 and nurses of 737,000.
The government has taken initiatives like restrictions in data protection and data exclusivity. Import duty on clinical trials is absolved. Availability of infrastructure required for conducting clinical research which includes connectivity with distant locations.
It is now possible to conduct meetings/training through strong networking facilities provided by the Information technology sector.
