Curricular training report at Blueclinical Ltd

• Autor(a) principal: Morais, Catarina Manuel Souto
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/13399
• topic: Biomedicina; Ensaios clínicos

This report describes the activities I have developed and the knowledge I have acquired during my curricular training as Clinical Research Coordinator at Blueclinical – Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Saúde, Ltd. The curricular training is part of the second year of the Master’s Degree program in Pharmaceutical Biomedicine University of Aveiro. The main activity developed was the clinical trials coordination at Hospitalar Center Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho, since the earliest phases – feasibilities – until latest phases – close-out visit. Nevertheless being part of a recent company, still in creation phase, was a positive aspect as it allowed me to perform a large variety of tasks, including management, creation of the quality system, among others. During the internship I was able to acknowledge the difficulties faced while creating and implementing a clinical research office, as well as acknowledge some differences between the academic environment and the professional environment. Besides the description of the activities developed and the objectives, this reports intents to contextualize the internship in Blueclinical’s structure and in clinical research state of art. It is also presented a critical analysis of the strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats faced during the curricular training.