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The Right Staff Can Ensure Clinical Trial Success Hiring the best staff to manage clinical trials requires careful planning, effective recruitment strategies, and a thorough evaluation of candidates. Do you have the right partner to help you staff your teams? ___ Plans for clinical trials and an Investigative New Drug (IND) application are prepared during the preclinical drug/device development phase....

Determining the Best Time to Hire MSLs The most important thing is to begin the staffing process 3-4 months before you need people in place. This applies to Medical Affairs and Clinical Affairs staffing. The market is highly competitive and finding candidates who meet your requirements and fit your culture is a science unto itself. TriNet Pharma Can Help! Value...

Meet Budget and Staffing Challenges Head-On A life sciences company seeking to form a medical affairs team in a new geographic location or a company establishing its foundation may need a recruiting agency to locate medical affairs talent. There are several reasons for this need, including: Lack of internal resources. A new organization may not have the internal resources or...

How Can MSLs Utilize the Influence of Digital Opinion Leaders? Engaging with Digital Opinion Leaders (DOLs) benefits Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs) in specific contexts. DOLs have a significant following on social media and are considered experts in their fields (e.g., cardiovascular therapies, cancer screening technology, gastrointestinal diseases, drug testing, and patient care). There can be a crossover with Key Opinion...

How to Enhance Patient Enrollment for Clinical Trials Every clinical trial is unique, what works for one study may not work for another. This is a key reason why strategies for clinical trial enrollment need to be continually evaluated. There are tactics that can increase the likelihood of trial enrollment success. Here are a few: The first and most practical...

Medical Affairs Will Continue to Make an Impact in the Future Medical affairs will progress and increase in importance in the future as the industry faces increasing regulatory, technological, and commercial challenges. Here are some trends and/or advances in medical affairs that we can expect:Increased focus on patient-centered care: Medical affairs will play a critical role in ensuring that pharma companies...

COVID-19 changed the process of interviewing forever. Companies modified their interview processes, moving from face-to-face interviews to virtual interviews to ensure they could continue to hire talent, and now they're sticking with the virtual process. "Per a recent Indeed survey, 82% of employers surveyed use virtual interviews, and 93% of employers plan to continue using them." [source: Forbes, May 5, 2022]Virtual...

A Medical Affairs Team Shares Information As described in the book Understanding Pharma: The Professional’s Guide to How Pharmaceutical and Biotech Companies Really Work, when a drug emerges from clinical development and is on the cusp of commercialization, Medical Affairs will lead the effort to explain to potential healthcare prescribers the real-world applications of the drug through the dissemination of...

Staffing Medical Affairs Teams is a Key Priority for Life Sciences Companies Over the course of 2019, TriNet Pharma noticed several trends in the staffing of Medical Affairs organizations. The trends are directly related to the fact that Life Sciences companies have recognized the value of what their Medical Affairs colleagues bring to the overall business.  In today’s environment, Medical...