A Field Guide to Clinical Research That Nobody Gives You
Get Your Copy“The CRC is the most important and least trained person in clinical research.”
Clinical trials don’t fail because of bad science. They fail because of bad coordination. And nobody teaches coordinators how to actually do the job — they just hand you a protocol and wish you luck. This book is everything that should have come after “good luck.”
Ish M.A has held every seat at the research site table: research assistant, patient recruiter, CRC, senior CRC, and clinical trial specialist.
This book isn’t theory. It’s the field manual he wished someone had handed him on day one.
He is also the creator of Clinical Research Question Bank, the exam prep platform for the ACRP-CP certification.
Three studies. Fourteen active subjects across all of them. A monitoring visit on Thursday, an IRB continuing review due Friday, and a patient coming in at 8am tomorrow for a visit that involves fasting labs, an ECG, a physical exam, and a two-hour post-dose observation. And I had forty-three unread emails, six of which were from the same CRA asking about a query from two weeks ago.
I was sitting at my desk at 4:30pm on a Wednesday trying to figure out which fire to put out first. My desk looked like a crime scene of sticky notes.
That was the night I built the system. Not because I read a productivity book. I built it because I was drowning and I needed something to tell me what mattered first…
12 chapters. ~120 pages. The field guide for every CRC who was handed a protocol and told “good luck.”