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The benefits of a graduate training program

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Interview with Diana, Nick, and Rhys from Veramed

Are you a master’s student or just graduated from a university? Or do you want to bring on statisticians or programmers fresh out of university onto your team? This episode is for you. We’ll talk about a tested and refined program to onboard statisticians without industry experience smoothly. We’ll cover:

  • What is the Graduate Training Program at Veramed?
  • How is the training conducted?
  • What happens after the program?

Veramed’s graduate training program aims to smooth the transition from graduate to effective member of a clinical biostatistics team. The comprehensive 12 week syllabus equips you with relevant skills and knowledge so that by the end of the training program you will feel prepared for your new role as a Statistician or Programmer. As well as in depth technical training, you will get an overview of the industry and a range of soft skills to help you manage projects, communicate with clients, and follow specific processes. 

Even if you have some technical experience, our comprehensive program ensures that any potential knowledge gaps are addressed. As the program progresses you will take on more project work and client-specific training, and by the end of the 12 weeks you will have sufficient skills to work on client projects.

Listen to this episode while we dive deep into these advantages of joining this program:

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3 Time management hacks, that actually work

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Given the pandemic, this episode comes timely as it’s a challenge to manage time while working at home.

But even after the pandemic, this challenge of getting most out of your time will not end.

In today’s episode, Benjamin and I talk about different time management hacks to be productive and efficient while working at home. We talk specifically about these points:

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8 steps to make a smart decision

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Imagine you need to choose a comparator for a head-to-head study. How do we usually approach it?

  • Debate
  • Meetings
  • More meetings with other stakeholders
  • Creating a slide deck
  • Revising the slide deck
  • Getting into time pressure
  • Getting conflicting feedback
  • Let’s just make a recommendation and find the data that supports this

In today’s episode, we discuss how to manage problems with efficiency, clarity, logic, consistency, alignment, and speed. You’ll learn about the 8 steps to make a smart decision:

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Working long hours – is it worth it?

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Interview with Ian Ratcliffe – IQVIA

Are you working long hours?
How do you manage your time?
Do you know how to say no?
How do you manage expectations?

We want to achieve our goals and be productive at the same time, i.e. we want to accomplish a lot of things during the day. But is it really effective to work long hours?

In today’s episode, Ian and I discuss working long hours – it’s advantages and disadvantages. We talk about these important points:

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ITIT – an acronym helping you get started in the pharma industry

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Interview with Alex Godwood and Gabriel Glencross

The Introduction to Industry Training (ITIT) gives the delegates a taste of life across the pharmaceutical industry from early drug discovery to marketing, from CRO to Big Pharma and across the UK and continental Europe. The course aims to show the delegates the breadth and depth of work that goes on the industry and give them ideas of where they can get involved. PSI organized this course into 6 two-day sessions, each covering a stage of drug development and each hosted at a different company. The host company will give their unique perspective from experts in the field. 

In this podcast, we talk about the following 9 important points:

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The podcast is run in association with PSI