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The CRA-Ready Profile · Cohort Application

Where are you on the path to CRA?

Six sections, the same map we use inside the cohort. At the end you'll get your CRA-Ready Profile to download and send to us, and we'll come back with an honest read on whether the cohort is right for you this round.

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Section 1 · You

Where you're starting from.

No wrong answers. This tells us which route in applies to you.

Full name

Current role

Where do you work?The side of research you sit on changes your fastest route in

Time in clinical research

Section 2 · Your experience

What you actually do.

This is where we see how close your day-to-day already is to a CRA's world.

Describe your current responsibilities in a few lines

Which stakeholders have you worked with directly?Select all that apply — "directly" means you have emailed, called, or met them yourself

CRAs / monitors

Sponsor study team contacts

PIs / investigators

Site coordinators / study teams

Ethics / IRB / regulatory

Vendors / central labs

Patients / participants

Which systems have you used?Select all that apply

EDC (e.g. Medidata Rave, Veeva)

CTMS

eTMF / ISF filing

IWRS / IRT / randomisation

eConsent / ePRO

None of these yet

Section 3 · The Map

Your route and your timeline.

Knowing where you're aiming changes what you should do next.

When do you want to be in a CRA role?

Which routes in have you seriously considered?Select all that apply

Internal promotion where I work

CRO entry-level CRA scheme

Sponsor-side move

Honestly — I don't know the routes yet

Section 4 · The Gap

What you can already evidence.

Be honest: the gap is the point. This is what the programme closes.

Tick everything you already haveSelect all that apply

Current GCP certificate

Been on-site during a monitoring visit

Exposure to SDV / source data

Handled essential documents (ISF/TMF)

Written or handled deviations/queries

Co-monitoring or shadowing arranged

What do you think your biggest gap is?

Section 5 · Confidence

Rate yourself honestly.

1 means not yet comfortable, 5 means genuinely confident. There's no pass mark. This shapes what we'd work on with you.

Presenting to a group

Communicating with senior stakeholders (PIs, sponsors, managers)

Understanding of the end-to-end clinical research process

Organisation & logistics (travel, visit planning, juggling priorities)

Section 6 · The Ask & The Leap

Advocacy and commitment.

Most people wait to be picked. The cohort teaches you to ask, and it takes real work between modules.

Have you had a career conversation with your manager about becoming a CRA?

If you could ask your employer for one thing tomorrow, what would it be?

Hours per week you could genuinely commit

Why a CRA — and why now?

Your answers save as you go on this device.

Your result

Send your profile to us and we'll reply with an honest read on cohort fit, with registration details if it's a match.