Clinical Research, an emerging branch of medical science, determines the safety and effectiveness of medications, devices, diagnostic products and treatment regiments that are intended for the human use. It may also be used for prevention, treatment and relief of symptoms in a disease. This has the clear potential for the strong growth in the future that driven by technological and scientific advances.
In Clinical Research, we do a systematic study for new drugs in human subjects to generate data for verifying or discovering the Clinical, Pharmacological or adverse effects to determine the safety and efficacy of the new drug. For this purpose, it conducts four phases.
1) Phase 1 trials: – The first phase of trial usually deals with the trial of the medicine in a small number of people such as health volunteers under the close supervision of a doctor. The main purpose of this trial is to determine whether the new compound is tolerated by body of the patient and behaves in the predicted way.
2) Phase 2 trials: – In the second phase, the medicine is administered to a group of about 100 to 300 informed patients for determining its effects. It also checks for any unacceptable side effects of the product.
3) Phase 3 trials: – The third phase is usually multi-centric phase that deals with the trial on the more than 1000 patients. This phase focuses on the effects of drugs in various ethnic groups, as compared to the standard drugs on the market and it also study of the drug effect on the different variants of the disease.
4) Phase 4 trials: – This phase is conducted after the launch of the drug on the market. It is a surveillance operation phase after the medicine is made available to the doctors who start prescribing it. The aim of this phase is to identify newer and to unknown adverse reactions and effects in different ethnic groups. This entire journey of a drug from the lab to market may take approx. 12 to 18 years.
By concluding, we can say that the main focus of clinical research is enough to include data management, medical writing, regulatory consultation and biostatistics to name a few.
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Why don't Creationists reject medical science like they do biology, geology and physics?Isn't that like saying medical science has better solutions to sickness than prayer?
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I can only help with the Australian university question.
Some may argue that the Australian universities belong to The Group of 8 (www.go8.edu.au) are the 'famous' one. University of Western Australia (UWA) is one of its member. However the group was formed just to unify the promotional effort. The members cannot claim that they are the best at everything that they offers.
There are only 42 (soon to be 43) universities in Australia, all of them are fully accredited and they are tightly regulated, therefore the quality and recognition of their graduates are equal from wherever university you are studying from. The most important thing is you have to READ the course information carefully, since some courses may have the same name but different content.
I suggest you to go to the online database below. It can show you which universities offer the area of study and their website. Once visited the website, please make sure that you access the information for international students, since some requirements, application form and fees are different than Australians'.
Once decided on the uni, fill in the application form and send it together with certified copy of your academic qualification. Depending on your country of origin, you may also need to submit an IELTS test results for proof of your English proficiency (www.ielts.org)
Living cost… Sydney and Canberra have the highest living cost, followed by Melbourne & Brisbane, then Perth, Darwin, Adelaide & Tasmania the lowest. .
So with many options for your to choose, this is my suggestion to narrow down your choice:
1. Choose the city you want to study in. The consideration maybe the lifestyle, living cost and weather.
2. Find the area that you want to work/career in. Check if the uni's are offering the area.
Hope this helps. Good luck for your study and welcome to Australia