"Revamping job descriptions and creating career ladders in any industry is daunting. Doing it in a traditional AMC clinical research setting where teams have operated in a decentralized, siloed manner may seem impossible. Despite the challenges, endeavors to standardize the CRP positions and career pathways exist using the Joint Task Force for Clinical Trial Competency framework and are well-documented by Duke University (Brouwer et al., 2017; Deeter et al., 2020; Stroo et al., 2020), and further instantiated at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in March 2020. More recently, various efforts are underway at other AMCs, several included in this perspective. There are likely other implementations by AMCs in-part, or in-whole that are not known or documented."

^{Excerpt from "Enhancing the Clinical Research Workforce: A Collaborative Approach with Human Resources." By Denise C Snyder, Heather Gaudaur, Mark Marchant, Laura Viera, Andrea McCubbin, William Verble, Angela Mendell, Christine Gilliam. Published in Frontiers in Pharmacology, section Drugs Outcomes Research and Policies}