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ATS resume keywords for Clinical Research & Data Management

These are the 26 terms our scorer checks a Clinical Research & Data Management resume against. It is the same list the free check uses, published in full.

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The vocabulary

Coverage is 25 of the 100 points. Sixty percent of this list is full marks, so you do not need all of it, and stuffing every term in is penalised separately.

  • clinical trial
  • ich-gcp
  • protocol
  • ecrf
  • crf
  • edc
  • medidata rave
  • oracle clinical
  • cdisc
  • sdtm
  • cdash
  • meddra
  • who-dd
  • medical coding
  • query management
  • data validation
  • edit check
  • uat
  • sae reconciliation
  • database lock
  • clean file
  • 21 cfr part 11
  • etmf
  • informed consent
  • study start-up
  • data management plan

The eight questions for Clinical Research & Data Management

The guided builder asks these, in this order, and turns each answer into a line on the page. Nothing is written that you did not type.

  1. 1.How many clinical studies or protocols have you worked on, and in which phases?
  2. 2.How many sites, subjects or CRFs did your largest study carry?
  3. 3.How many queries do you raise, resolve or close in a month?
  4. 4.Which EDC or clinical systems do you work in daily?
  5. 5.How many database locks or clean file deliveries have you completed, and how many were on time?
  6. 6.Which standards or regulations do you work under by name?
  7. 7.Have you faced a sponsor audit or regulatory inspection, and what was the outcome?
  8. 8.How many coordinators, data associates or site staff have you trained or supervised?
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Words are the easy half

A resume can carry every term above and still be rejected, because coverage says what you know and nothing about what you delivered. The heaviest category on the rubric is evidence: how many of your bullets carry an actual figure.

Seven in ten is full marks. Most resumes we see manage two.

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