In my opinion, low performance is because of one of a few things including lack of motivation, a toxic work environment, or just the person likes being a pencil pusher and doing whatever for the money. In any case, as…   Read more»

My biggest motivator is ambition. When it comes to work I don’t care about the money (yet) but rather that feeling of fulfillment. I want to make sure what I’m doing I’ll enjoy, be happy with, and most importantly makes…   Read more»

Something that was very different about this class compared to Dr. Simon’s other class was the simulations. In school, we learn all these concepts and skills that sometimes we never even get to use once we go into the industry….   Read more»

These results actually make so much sense. I’m someone who rejected a six fig job because I didn’t like that type of work and was willing to take the pay cut to be happier with what I do in my…   Read more»

The American work-life balance is very poor however I don’t think Americans are overworked because they are trying to one-up their peers. From my personal experience, I’ve noticed that there’s a lot of acting and dragging when it comes to…   Read more»

As mentioned the financial state and decisiveness are key components when making this decision. Quality in my opinion should never be the one to be sacrificed especially in this industry so I’d have to say good and fast. If you…   Read more»

quality assurance deals with process checklists, standards, documentation, and auditing whereas quality control is more so inspection, software testing process, peer reviews, etc. 

In my opinion, delivering a successful project should never rely on an individual, especially if there’s a whole team involved with the project. In this specific case, if the planning phase was executed properly I’d say for those short 3…   Read more»

I think it’s best to have as many backup options for when worse comes to worst similar to the sim from last week where an unplanned cytotoxicity problem got in the way of business. We had to find an alternative…   Read more»

Aside from actually finding the root of the cause of cytotoxicity, I think what Dr. Simon wanted us to take away was that it is imperative to get through all verification steps in the process before anything else happens. Now,…   Read more»

I’ve definitely faced projects in the past where I’ve felt the initiation could’ve been better. Like anything, if a strong foundation isn’t set to build upon, then the more you stack up the more likely it’ll topple off at one…   Read more»

I agree Naglaa, the hardest part of these simulations thus far has been setting up the test procedure. I’d say this comes with both our lack of experience setting up these kinds of tests and our ignorance with the root…   Read more»

As a general response, I would say that project management is relatively the same across the healthcare spectrum. I agree with csimmonds that project management definitely places an emphasis on safety and clinical trials, however, when it comes to healthcare…   Read more»

In terms of prerequisites in certification/education, I don’t believe there’s a bachelor’s degree specific to project management, and even if there were a master’s degree that was that specialized I don’t think it serves as much leverage as experience would….   Read more»

Hello!
I’m Adam doing my masters in BME at NJIT while working at GE Healthcare. Below is my LinkedIn link, I look forward to connecting!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-abdelrazek/ 

As shown from the Mini-sim, scheduling is anything but easy and one mishap can lead to the other. Calculating of course is tailored depending on the situation in hand, but it all comes down to experience. As you saw in…   Read more»

As you mentioned communication is key to getting the ball rolling with any type of group work. Internally in a company setting, we used jabber to communicate and teams to work interactively. however with school group projects and with my…   Read more»

Contrary to some of my peers I wouldn’t start reaching out to other suppliers immediately but I would already have other vendors lined up and backup/substitute plans for emergency situations such as this. With any type of business, you have…   Read more»

I’ve experienced working from home with minimal commuting, working in an office with a normal commute routine, and then fieldwork where most of my day is commuting and the accompanying paperwork or rather “office work” is done at home.  With…   Read more»

Contrary to most of my peers I believe that it can go either way, in that whether you start off as a team member or go straight into management comes down to you and your personality skills more so than…   Read more»