Career in Clinical Research after MBBS

What is Clinical Research

Clinical Research is a Multinational, Multibillion, Multidisciplinary Industry

What is Clinical Research?
Clinical Research is a systematic study for new drugs in human subjects to generate data 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 I trials
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 and behaves in the predicted way.

Phase II trials
In this phase, the medicine is administered to a group of approximately 100-300 informed patients to determine its effect and also to check for any unacceptable side effects.

Phase III trials
In this phase, the group is between 1000 and 5000, for the company to use statistics to analyze the results. If the results are favourable, the data is presented to the licensing authorities for a commercial licence.

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

Check out the personal opinion of people in the following forum about clinical research in India

http://www.aippg.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19113

Colleges for Msc clinical research

Institute of Clinical research(best among these…its my personal opinion..affiliated to Cranfield university,UK )

http://www.icriindia.com/index.htm

Institute of Advanced Pharmaceutical Studies

http://www.studycr.com/aboutus.html

RNIS college of Clinical research

http://www.rnisclinical.org/rnisclinical_advanceddiplomafulltime.htm

Rejuvendus Clinical Research

http://www.rejuvendus.com/multiplelink.htm

CLINICAL RESEARCH :An emerging career

Pharmacological clinical research and drug trials
Career in Pharmacological clinical research and drug trials.

India as the largest pool of patients suffering from cancer, diabetes and other maladies is leading the country to an altogether different destination: the global hub of outsourcing of clinical trials.

Almost all the top names in the pharmaceutical world have zeroed-in on India, setting up clinical trial facilities in major cities, especially Hyderabad and Ahmedabad.

Global consultancy McKinsey & Co estimates that by 2010, global pharmaceutical majors would spend around $1-1.5 billion just for drug trials in the country.

Following are the approaches to Career in Clinical research for Doctors

1.After completing MBBS ->Job in Pharma Company as Clinical trial Analyst,
Salary:2.00 to 2.10 lakh for nil experience
link:http://jobs.monsterindia.com/details/5762050.html?sig=js-1-c426ba29ca5fddf60e5eb61368cede9c-1

2.Do a MD Pharmacology->Job in pharma company as a medical advisor,clinical research scientist…
about the job :Organising and conducting training for the Field Staff. * Conducting CME’s and symposia. * Supporting KOL management. * Conducting Pharmacovigilance training. * Furnishing Technical data for product management and Monitoring Promotion. * Supporting New Product launches across diffrent

links:http://india.recruit.net/search.html?query=medical+advisor++clinical+research+physician&location=India&pageNo=1&hitsPerPage=10&postdate=30&dedup=true&jobRef=&sortby=relevance

3.Do a MBBS->Msc Clinical Research ,Post graduate diploma in Clinical research ->get a job

4.MBBS->MD PHARM->Msc Clinical research->Highest paying job among the above options (in my view this is the best route to the pharmaceutical industry for doctors)

The Arogyada
www.arogyada.in

Spectrum Of Options After MBBS

MBA after MBBS

Dr Rahul Khandelwal is pass out from Indian school of business (ISB,Hyderabad)
check out his blog…this will clear all your doubts regarding MBA after MBBS

http://www.rahulkhandelwal.com/2006/09/22/doctors-and-mbas/

MBA after MBBS forum

http://www.pagalguy.com/index.php?categoryid=56&p2_articleid=483

Apollo Hospitals Medical courses

http://www.apollohospitals.com/ed1b.asp

Courses offered include:

The DNB provided by the National Board of Examination (NBE), Government of India is an outstanding postgraduate medical degree programme that is today coveted by medical graduates all over the country . The NBE maintains a high and uniform standard of postgraduate and postdoctoral examinations in medical sciences for the award of the Diplomate of National Board (DNB). The DNB is equivalent to the MD/MS/DM/MCh of other Indian Universities as recognised by the Government of India and the Medical Council of India. With today’s widespread commercialisation of postgraduate medical education, the NBE provides a better alternative for meritorious but less affluent medical graduates.

The National Board of Examinations approved Apollo Hospitals, Chennai for accreditation in 1984. Today 18 departments are recognised as post-graduate training centres by the Board.

The Apollo hospitals has been recognized by the NBE to train students in the following key medical specialities-

Broad Specialties:

Anaesthesia
Orthopaedics
Pathology
Radiology
General Medicine
General Surgery
Family Medicine

Super Specialties:

Nephrology
Neurology
Cardiology

Fellowship Programme
Critical Care Medicine

Fellowship in Emergency Medicine (Affiliated with the Royal College of General Practitioners, U.K.)

The Apollo Hospitals’ 24 hours emergency and trauma care is geared to treat all kinds of medical and surgical emergencies including poly-trauma with the most advanced equipments. The Royal College of General Physicians has recognised Apollo Hospitals, Chennai and Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad for fellowships in Emergency Medicine in 2002.

MRCS (UK) (Affiliated with the Royal College of General Surgeons, U.K.)

The Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, has identified Apollo hospitals as a training centre for Fellowship examinations in:

– General Surgery
– Orthopaedic Surgery
– Emergency

Apollo Hospital Management courses

Management Courses
Masters Degree in Hospital Management (Programme offered with affiliation from Osmania University with approval of AICTE)

LInk :http://www.apollohospitals.com/ed1b.asp#Medical%20courses

Emergency Medicine in India

Contributions to the Development of Emergency Medicine in India
From Editor’s Desk – Editorial June-July 2008(http://current.emergencymedicine.in/news.php)

Go to an emergency medicine conference in the US and mingle into posh NRI crowd. The most common question asked by people is Does Emergency Medicine exist in India? You are likely to hear the answer coming from an Indian living in the US that EM does not exist in India, but we are doing everything we can to bring the specialty to that country.

Our newest specialty in the field of medicine and trauma has many self proclaimed owners. They speak of a scenario which existed more than a decade ago and many of them have never even stepped into India recently.

Emergency medicine and allied services is a multibillion dollar industry for a country. You are very wrong if you think that affiliation to an Institute in US comes for free and that they are supporting us. Indian institutes have the capacity to pay in hundreds of thousand of dollars per year for affiliations and this is pure business.

Emergency medicine is exploding into India

Emergency medicine is exploding into India

The enquiries made by enthusiastic doctors in India wanting to take up emergency medicine as their career made me think about a very disturbing trend. As Emergency Medicine explodes into India there are two types of interests expressed by organizations and people.

Firstly, EM can make a real difference to the hospital, patients and healthcare of a community in general. EM recognition can lead to lives saved. Its a new specialty which gives opportunity for EM physicians, EM nursing, Emergency medical technicians (paramedics), etc to work and contribute in hospitals and to the society. EM also pays well.

Secondly, EM / EMS is also a huge opportunity for organizatons and people with vested interests to make a great deal money and fame. Some institutes are ready to put many innocent careers at stake to do this. There is nobody to enforce strict regulations in emergency medicine in India as of today.

But this doesn’t mean every organization starting a new EM course has decided to ruin people’s careers. It upto the person joining any academic program to do a through check on the course details and teaching faculty. The Society of Emergency Medicine, India (SEMI), which has been recognised internationally, is the central body which governs a small aspect of the growth of emergency medicine in our country.

After travelling all over the country, visiting different department and hospitals, as well as attending various national and international EM conferences, I find that emergency physicians in India are divided into the following groups:(to read more click following link-http://current.emergencymedicine.in/readarticle.php?article_id=14

Dr. Imron Subhan
Editor-in-Chief
EmergencyMedicine.in
May 2008

Institutes providing Emergency Medicine Degree

Apollo’s Medical Music Therapy course

Apollo’s Medical Music Therapy course

Apollo Hospitals, the largest private healthcare service provider in Asia, and the pioneers in the healthcare space offering unique services to the patient community and the medical fraternity, has launched the first-of-its-kind Medical Music Therapy course, here in Chennai. The Medical Music Therapy course is not only the first in India but in Asia too.

More on this link :http://chennaionline.com/health/homearticles/2004/02apollomusic.asp

Fellow In Sports Sciences(medvarsity)

Sports Medicine, Sports Physiotherapy and Nutrition are the newer fields, and yet to be utilized to their potential in India. Sports have become very competitive and much of scientific research and support towards sports teams found to be rewarding.

The Team Doctors, Team Sports Physio Services have become very essential for most of the Teams, Health, Spa and Health Gymnasiums.

Sports Medicine and Applied Physiotherapy is a developing field in India, and curriculum of many courses does not include these Subjects. A Trained Doctor / Physiotherapist in Sports Medicine, Physiotherapy and Nutrition will be an asset to any team during preparatory phase as well as during competition.

http://www.medvarsity.com/vmu1.2/dmr/dmrdata/courses/SS/Sports%20Brocher/brocher.htm

Hyderabad Sports Medicine, Educational & Research

Hyderabad Sports Medicine, Educational & Research Foundation

Accredited by:

Indian Federation of Sports Medicine (AP)

Indian Association of Occupational Health (AP),

Indian Olympic Association (AP),

PG Program in Sports Science & Rehabilitation

PG Program in Sports Nutrition

PG Program in Cardiac Rehabilitation
PG Program in Geriatric Rehabilitation

Duration: 6-month online (One-week Contact Program optional)

Eligibility: Doctors, Physiotherapists, Coaches, Trainers, Physical Education teachers, Nutritionists, Graduates and interns.

The prospectus can be obtained by paying DD of Rs. 300/- in favour of “Dr. Bakhtiar Choudhary” payable at Hyderabad.

Contact

Dr. S. Bakhtiar Choudhary, MD, FIMS, FMBSH

770A, Next to Bhavan’s School, Defence Colony, Sainikpuri,

Secunderabad-500094. Cell: 09849136940, 09849404930

E-Mail: sbakhtiar@hotmail.com

Some more options after MBBS excluding PG

1.HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION
2.MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION
3.SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
4.COSMETOLOGY/TRICHOLOGY
5.GENERAL PRACTICE

Now a days its more profitable to work privately than to join a teaching job in a medical college or a government sponsored PHC job. If you are sure that you don’t intend to go into these above 2 jobs categories then there are lots of valid foreign degrees as well as Indian certificate courses which are at par or even better than an MCI recognized degree. Since you already have a basic MBBS degree, you are legally qualified to practice medicine anywhere in Indian. Some of the options available are:

1.DNB
2.MRCP
3.WHO approved” MD/MS degree from USAIM
4.WHO approved” MD/ MS degree from Nepal
5.WHO approved” MD/ MS degree from Manipal Hospital

For more information Click on the link below
http://www.mcqsonline.com/edoctor/after_mbbs.htm

Career options after MBBS

http://www.aippg.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27887

Career options after MBBS
1. Medical Underwriting- You could try working in ICICI Prudential, Birla sunlife and other companies. They are mainly into pre hospital health checks for insurance, hospitalisation expenses partly and death claims. they do tend to pay 30000 rs pm or even 5 lakhs per annum if you are good.
They usually prefer pharmacy graduates since they are much stable.
You could try and get into them via working initially for TPAs ( third party administartos like Paramount, TTK healthcare and others ). The pay when i went was around 11000 rs with yearly appraisal in the month of december(paramount).
2. Pharma companies.
They look for medico marketing manager.
Job profile includes answering queries of field staff and doctors with regards to the product, conduct training sessions, CME’s, clinical trials, writng promotional leterature.Pharma companies could pay you 25000- 50000 rs depending upon your bolbachan.
You could try working in a clinical research organization for inital experience. Not sure bout the pay in CRO’s . Also not sure bout ICRI and other institutes.
3. Mediacl writing
Anyone with a creative bent of mind could try medical writing. search for creative writing courses for reputed institutes to help you initally and also
spruce up your CV. a white article on medical rpocedures with facts could fetch you from 5000 – 7500 rs.
4. Hospital management
Try getting into MHA by doing a course. Personal opinion is why not MBA.MHA restricts you to Hospital administration and MBA could be used for any other firld.
Doctors do get into IIMs. Not difficult but very possible.

Join Indian Army After MBBS..

A PROMISING AND CHALLENGING CAREER FOR
YOUNG DOCTORS
JOIN ARMY MEDICAL CORPS AS
SHORT SERVICE COMMISSIONED OFFICERS

QUALIFICATION : The applicant must possess medical qualification included in First/Second Schedule or Part II of the Third Schedule of IMC Act 1958. The applicant must have permanent registration from any State Medical Council/MCI. Post graduate degree holders i.e MD/MS/MCh/DM may also apply. PG Degree in following subjects will be given preference (a) Anaesthesia, (b) Surgery, (c) Obstetrics & Gynaecology, (d) Medicine.

AGE LIMIT: The candidate must not have attained 45 years of age on 31Dec 2006. It may be noted that, the maximum age limit for MBBS degree & Post Graduate diploma/ degree holder desirous of Permanent Commission, on becoming eligible during service, will be 30 years & 31/35 years respectively as on 31 Dec 2006. SSC officers are eligible for promotion upto the rank of Major only.

METHOD OF SELECTION : Eligible candidates will be called for interview by a Board of Officers at the Office of DGAFMS, Ministry of Defence, ‘M’ Block, New Delhi in the month of July 2006 ( 1st/2nd Week) to assess their suitability and merit for grant of Short Service Commission in the Armed Forces Medical Services. The candidates appearing for interview for the first time will be paid to and fro second-class railway/bus fare.
EMOLUMENTS: Doctors on commissioning in the Armed Forces Medical Services will be granted the rank of Captain ( or equivalent rank in Navy/Air Force) in the scale of Rs.9450-9600-300-11400 plus rank pay Rs.400/-, Non-practicing allowance at the rate of 25% of the Basic Pay and Dearness Allowance (total emolument at minimum of Pay Scale (Rs.20,860/- pm.). In addition, entitled free ration, subsidized accommodation and allied facilities shall be provided.

link

http://indianarmy.nic.in/dgafms/ssc_officers.htm

Courses At IITs For Doctors


4 semester M.Tech Medical Biotechnology discipline under User Oriented Programme, sponsored by Frontier Life Line & KM Cherian Heart Foundation, Mogappair, Chennai – 600 101.

Biotechnology is a discipline which is growing at a rapid pace Framed manpower m Medical Biotechnology is in short supply. Internationally, the employment scope, growth potential and research opportunities in this expanding area are far superior to and surpass those of many in professional fields including medicine The course stresses hands-on experience in a clinical setting.

Eligibility: B.Tech./B E. in Biotechnology or related fields/ M Sc. m Physics / Chemistry / Life Science or equivalent / M.B B.S / B.Pharm / BVSc with first class or 60% marks or 6 5 CGPA (55% or 6.0 CGPA in the case of SC/ST candidates)
Except those candidates with a MBBS degree, other candidates need a valid GATE score / qualified in NET (UGC/CSIR) / ICMR/ ICAR test or two years professional experience in a relevant field.
Selection: Candidates need to appear for the written test and interview conducted by NT Madras, at their own cost.

Master In Medical Science And Technology (MMST)
A three-year Masters in Medical Science and Technology (MMST) programme is offered for MBBS graduates, with a view to imparting engineering skills to medical professionals and training them for state-of-art medical research in the frontier areas of medical imaging and image analysis, telemedicine and Tele Surgery, biosensors and medical instrumentation, biomarkers and their applications in diabetes and oncology, reproductive biology, contraceptive development and infertility management, molecular biology and tissue engineering, preventive and promotive health-care, comprehensive health information system for disease management, development of cancer drugs, biomedical implants and devices, brain research and cognitive neuroscience, and nanotechnology and microelectro-mechanical systems in medicine.

The Arogyada
www.arogyada.in

Unruly Government Policies Are Driving Young Doctors Away

The Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry has approved the proposal for compulsory rural posting for doctors. One year posting in rural and inaccessible areas will now be made part of the curriculum.
Doctors will be get monthly stipend of Rs. 8,000-10,000
Well starting here we all know that the above policy of the Indian government is supposed to improve the health care status in India with more and more doctors reaching more and more peripheral areas of India ,but in depth if we analyze this plan it is actually a very short sighted approach to the Rural Health Care reforms.
The real position today is that doctors like me and my colleagues in this profession who are actually from the above 90 percentile intelligence of the Indian population are in no way short of any IIT graduate..so why this discrepancy…that too in spite of the fact that what we devote to this profession is not a fraction of our lives but its the whole life including our personal life which is at stack.
My question here is if you wanna send doctors to villages who are going to practice just the primary prevention and cure with limited facilities provided by the government of India ,why teach them genetics, more than 10,000 types of rare syndrome with incidence as rare as 1 in 1 million(To see the patients with these syndromes in one lifetime is next to impossible unless you are in a tertiary level institute)
Why do you teach them minutest details of medical research,when in a village they are just going to prescribe 20 medicine availed by the Indian government to treat all the diseases like a quack.
Is not all this a shear wastage of human resources when these young doctors trained to excel can actually lend a helping hand in development of bright future of medicine in India .
Already the attrition has started..with most of the doctors diverting to other fields(like MBA) or fleeing away to the west for a better life.
Also the number of freshers opting for Pre medical entrance has reduced to half…so where are we heading..Better health for India or something else..?

The Arogyada
www.arogyada.in