Having clinical trial experience is definitely advantageous in the medical device field as you encounter problems that may not have been thought about during the design of the product, and gives good insight into human factors of the product. After completing my BS degree I actually worked at a pain management clinic as a clinical research coordinator, in which we conducted a variety of studies such as spinal cord stimulator trials, pharmacogenetics programs, and pluripotent stem cell injection trials. Throughout these trials the main responsibility was identifying, monitoring, and recording input of the patients throughout the trial while also understanding the technical aspects of the study and relaying any new information from the sponsor (company) to the investigator (clinician). For the most part our key sponsors included Stryker, St. Judes Medical, and Boston Scientific gathering data. We also participated in prospective studies through federal sponsorship on opioid abuse and it’s relation to pharmacogenetics in order to find a correlation between the two. The most interesting aspect of clinical trials is the interaction with the patients and getting direct feedback on the product. My time in a clinical trial setting definitely helped me to gain a better understanding in patient needs and a different perspective into medical devices.