Overview & Salary

Overview

Plan, direct, or coordinate clinical research projects. Direct the activities of workers engaged in clinical research projects to ensure compliance with protocols and overall clinical objectives. May evaluate and analyze clinical data.

On the job, you would:

  • Schedule subjects for appointments, procedures, or inpatient stays as required by study protocols.
  • Perform specific protocol procedures such as interviewing subjects, taking vital signs, and performing electrocardiograms.
  • Assess eligibility of potential subjects through methods such as screening interviews, reviews of medical records, or discussions with physicians and nurses.

Education

  • bachelor's degree
  • certificate after high school

Salary

Annual 10th percentile $77,520
Annual median $157,740
Annual 90th percentile $239,200

Knowledge & Skills

Knowledge

Business

  • customer service
  • administrative services

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Health

  • medicine and dentistry

Skills

Basic Skills

  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • reading work related information

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Social

  • changing what is done based on other people's actions
  • understanding people's reactions

Personality & Abilities

Personality

Investigative

People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.

  • Cooperation
  • Integrity
  • Dependability
  • Self Control
  • Attention to Detail
  • Initiative

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by speaking
  • communicate by writing

Ideas and Logic

  • notice when problems happen
  • use rules to solve problems

Math

  • add, subtract, multiply, or divide
  • choose the right type of math to solve a problem
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