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Why should you bring your Medical Director career to clinical research?

Posting date: 06/07/2022
Author: Inside ICON
It's not hard to reel off a list of reasons to become a Medical Director. The chance to ensure that patient care is high-quality will likely be right at the top. But why should you bring your Medical Director career to clinical research?

Clinical research is a dynamic and growing field. Just consider Frost & Sullivan's forecast of the CRO (contract research organization) market , which earnt a total revenue of $43.03 billion in 2019, but is on track to reach $63.83 billion by 2024.

It's an exciting time to join the CRO market, and at ICON, we know the way to success. We just need the right people to get there. Here's what you can expect from a Medical Director career in clinical research and why ICON could be the place for you.

1. Share your vast medical expertise

Clinical research Medical Directors have several roles , including sharing their expertise with stakeholders, who include regulators, key opinion leaders, senior management, and clients. It's an opportunity to take the knowledge you've amassed throughout your career and use it to provide clarity on subjects such as the feasibility of a new clinical trial at an investigator meeting. You'll also get to direct the distribution of scientific and medical information at kick-off meetings and face-to-face client meetings.

2. Work with world-leading healthcare companies <>/h2

Depending on the area of clinical research you choose to work in, you'll develop relationships with biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or medical device companies. These companies will rely on you to contribute to their areas of interest as a strategic thought leader.

How can you do this? At ICON, we've established long-standing partnerships with pharma, biotech, and medical device companies. We constantly seek to bring new and innovative solutions to our customers’ challenges.

3. Challenge yourself

Many people choose to stay in their job because of challenging and rewarding work. So, it's time to ask yourself if you are being challenged. If not, it's certainly something you'll find within clinical research. So, whether it's the lingering impacts of Covid, or advances in technology that you're faced with, you'll need strong personal resilience.

4. Be at the forefront of the technological revolution

wearable technology into clinical trials . The amount of data that can now be collected means we can make clinical trials better, cheaper, and faster than ever before.

5. Improve the quality of our patient care

One thing that binds all our Medical Directors together at ICON is the interest in helping others. Through medical monitoring, vetting the clinical trial process, and working closely with Drug Safety teams, you will help to accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of life, all the while keeping patients at the center.

Are you looking for a new opportunity?

With ICON, you'll find more than just a job. We offer an opportunity to grow. Our Medical Directors play a pivotal role within project teams and the wider company.

But what makes us different from other CROs? We put our patients at the center of all that we do. ICON people have a mission to succeed and a passion that ensures what we do, we do well.

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