Duke Clinical Research Institute Reviews

Pros

Flex time, great benefits, fair pay

Advice to Management

I respectfully decline to tell management how to do their job.

Pros

flexible hours, plenty of training, people

Pros

Learned a lot of research techniques

Pros

If you want to work at a place where there are bright minds working on the best models for conducting research, come here. An academic environment is different-not perfect; if you're a self-starter you'll have opportunities to gain exposure to ideas and learn from the leaders in the field, not just those who post to promote the business. The benefits are fantastic and I've personally had great opportunities and salary growth. You have some independence and can shape your own team if you're willing to put in the strategy and the sweat. Several years ago a structured personnel management plan and job assessment was put into place, and like all things time is needed to see results. In a period of transition now, and that accounts for some of the postings you're seeing. It's disappointing to see negative reviews at a time of transition; there is, however, clearly room for improvement in some areas. The interim CEO gives one hope...

Advice to Management

Look hard at who is in the C suite and just below; run the place like a business with an academic mindset. Assess the resources , capacity and fit of projects across the entire institution before you take them on to be sure we can be successful.

Pros

Good work life balance.

Advice to Management

Work to create a positive innovative work environment.

Pros

Great benefits, work life balance, respectful environment

Advice to Management

Re- examine the executive leadership. It is the good old boys club. The same people that have made bad choices remain in charge. Certain people are on every executive committee. Major conflict of interest. Get some objective people who have been in the industry recently. You can’t keep riding on the innovation of years ago. DCRI has outdated technologies and tools, not to mention the culture that is resistant to change.

Pros

good environment for learning and growth

Pros

Good benefits and work from home with tuition support

Advice to Management

The good people are leaving as part of this announcement and the dead wood stays, one of the worst places I have ever worked

Pros

The benefits are great. The ability to work from home either part time or full time and they really try to keep a good work/life balance.

Advice to Management

While I know that managing large groups of people is never easy, it would be nice if there was some sort of consistency when it came to new employee training. New employees are given way to long of a grace period to "catch" on to their role and end up being a burden to the study they are assigned to. They should be evaluated more often in the first 90 days and let go if they can't catch on. We as leads should not still be training them on the basics 1.5 years into their positions! The PM and SM feuding may stop with the new splitting of clinops but that hasn't had enough time to tell. Hopefully with out own director we will have more of a voice now. The bidding process should include people who are actually on the front lines now and not people who were there 10-20 years ago. Things have changed drastically and so has the way sites are monitored. Maybe a survey across the SM team to see how the CRAs feel about how the SM bidding has been on recent projects and what can be done to improve it? Perhaps that might help with the financial instability that seems to plague the DCRI every few years.

Pros

Good work/life balance. Good health benefits.

Advice to Management

The organization is top heavy.