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Clinical Data Managers

Tips for Entry

Visit the following Web sites for job listings:

  • https://careers.computer.org
  • https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/clinical-data-manager-jobs
  • http://jobs.acm.org

Read publications about clinical data management to keep up with industry practices and news. A good place to start is with resources from the Society for Clinical Data Management (SCDM), including Good Clinical Data Management Practice (a reference and benchmark for data managers worldwide), the Journal of the Society for Clinical Data Management, and the SCDM Podcast. Visit https://scdm.org/knowledge to access these resources.

Attend conferences to meet others working in data management and participate in continuing education opportunities. There are just a few examples:

  • AWS re:Invent: https://reinvent.awsevents.com
  • IEEE International Big Data Congress: https://bigdataieee.org
  • Society for Clinical Data Management Annual Conference: https://scdm.org

The Association for Computing Machinery and its Special Interest Group on Management of Data offers student memberships, for access to publications, a mentorship program, and continuing education opportunities: https://sigmod.org/membership/for-students.

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