I believe that if a company has the resources (employees, labs, schedule, timing, money) available to conduct the clinical trials in house, they would certainly do so. Outsourcing these clinical trial...

Within my experience so far in the industry, all of the things you have mentioned (financial compensation, job satisfaction, recognition, and work life balance) play an equal part in motivating employ...

This is a great discussion because clinical trials are indeed extremely important to the release of many life saving medical devices on the market today and all that will be released in the future as ...

In my opinion, the best way to strategize to upper management and stakeholders the value of the project is to have a meticulous planning stage where the most important detail of project scope is accur...

This is a very interesting topic because I have seen a situation like this occur during one of the projects that I was a part of in the medical device industry. I believe that larger corporations have...

Based off the lecture on quality control this week, I don't think that "its not done well" in smaller projects, I think it's just not as common in smaller projects. Additionally, the larger and more d...

While its difficult to put a number to how many projects are successfully completed in the industry, I remember the lecture mentioning that many projects do not go to completion due to various reasons...

This is an interesting topic because I believe it varies highly from company to company. Each organization has their own respective protocols and approval lists in place to ensure that change controls...

From my experience in the workplace, I think the mini simulation was accurate in demonstrating how flexible a successful project manager would need to be. At some point after working on projects, ther...

The mini sim this week did a great job representing some of the ways to go about resolving time conflicts within the project timeline. From my experience within the industry and learning from the mini...

While all the documentation in the DHF and other company based paperwork is transferred at the end of a project's lifecycle, the members of the project would still be contacted if there are any issues...

Hello Everyone! My name is Meet Sukhadia and I am currently a master's student at NJIT studying Biomedical Engineering. I am also a Research and Development Engineer at Ethicon, here is my LinkedIn p...

While many have said that the project being over budget is poor planning, the lectures did indicate that there are situations where the budget in the planning stage is not accurate because many differ...

This is a great discussion because it shines light on the importance of the planning stage and how important it is for this to be detailed enough so the execution stage can go smoothly. As discussed i...

This is an interesting conversation to me because from my experience so far within the industry, I have not worked on a project where there was multiple project managers. There could be multiple peopl...