Management and training of clinical research coordinators

Clinical research coordinator(CRC) industry is in the stage of rapid development in China. Some of the domestic institutes of clinical drug trial (ICDT) have already had their own CRC teams, which consist of medical and nursing staff personnel who retired from the hospital. At the same time, sponsers and contract research organization (CRO) institutions are also training their CRC teams. The Institute of National Clinical Drug Trial in the Second Hospital Affiliated to Suzhou University is one of ICDTs, which cooperates with the site management organization (SMO) companies to co-cultivate and co-manage CRCs. Successes have been made and experience has been accumulated through actual practice. Here is a brief introduction of the operating mechanism and the specific job responsibilities of CRC with an aim to provide reference for the construction and management of the clinical trial organizations.