Diploma in Clinical Research

Course Overview

Clinical Research is a systematic study for new drugs in human subjects to genenate dita for discovering or verifying the Clinical, Pharmacological including Pharmacodynamic and Pharmacokinetic or adverse effects with the objective of determining safety and efficacy of the new drug


Clinical Research is conducted in 4 phases:
Phase 1-Triab
This is the first time the new drug is administered to a small number, around 20-80 healthy informed volunteers under the close supervision of a doctor. The purpose is to determine whether the new compound is tolerated by the patient's body & behaves in the predicted way


Phase 2-Trials
In this phase, the medicne is admistered to a group of approximately 100-300 informed patients to determine its effect it also to check for any unacceptabile side effects.


Phase 3-Trial
In this phase, the group is between 1000 5000, for company to use statistics to analyze the results. If the results are favorabile, the data is presented to the licensing authorities for a commercial license


Phase 4- Thals
This is a surveillance operation phase after the medicine is made available to doctors, who start prescribing t. The effects are monitored on thousands of patients to help identify any unforeseen side effects


The clinical triab market worldwide is worth over USD 26 billion and the industry has employed an estimated 2,10,000 people in the US & OMY 70.000 in the UK, and that form one-third of the total reserch and designet suff. There are more than 2,50,000 positions vacant globally is salaries vary in the region of appradmately USD 40,000 per annum for a Clinical Research Coordinatox A career in Clinical Research offers esculent job opportunities in USA, Europe, Singapore & India