Medical representatives are usually divided into two types: one is sold to hospitals and the other is sold to pharmacies. The main job is to introduce drugs to customers. They can represent drugs to hospitals themselves, and the sales of pharmacies can increase sales. It can also be employees of pharmaceutical companies to represent their own drugs. Most of the work of medical representatives is to introduce drugs to doctors and pharmacists in hospitals. So pharmacokinetics is a kind of salesperson.
CRA:
The English text is Clinical Research Associate, and the Chinese name is "? Clinical trial expert? " Or "? Clinical trial monitor? 〓 The work contents include clinical trial monitoring, quality control, project management, communication and coordination, data sorting and filing, etc.
The difference between the two:
Nature of work:
By dealing with doctors, CRA completes the data of clinical trials in company tasks, while medical representatives mostly sell drugs or equipment in order to complete performance tasks. CRA and pharmaceutical representatives, as well as many other industries, are essentially sales, but the contents of sales are different. CRA needs to sell and manage projects and related personnel, drug sales and drug management.
About job requirements:
Sales should have strong ideas and actions, try their best to solve difficulties and produce results, and break the routine and find ways when necessary. What CRA needs is patience, meticulousness and a strong sense of responsibility, and everything must be done according to the rules.