Some inspirational and motivational factors that can inspire Clinical SAS programmers : Epoch Research Institute India Pvt. Ltd. (www.epoch.co.in)

Some inspirational and motivational factors that can inspire Clinical SAS programmers : EpochResearch Institute India Pvt Ltd. (SASAuthorised Training : Ahmedabad | Bangalore | Chennai)

 As we all know that almost every job requires highly motivated programmers along with the managers to motivate them. But the question rises – what about Clinical SAS programmers? Clinical SAS programmers are neither software developers nor statisticians. But they play a crucial role in the industry in filling a distinctive void.

  We will define the three factors that can influence the programmer’s motivation. These covers three categories i.e. the working environment for the programmers, recognition and the team with which you are involved. In addition, Clinical SAS programmers are not the emblematic software developers whereas software developers have the computer science degree or other relative background or would surely have a least interest in programming world. This is not the case with the Clinical SAS programming. Clinical SAS programmers are derived from various backgrounds and in general they accidentally fall into the programming concepts. As a result we cannot group them in a single homogeneous group. As an alternative we have to classify them into different categories based upon their strength and weakness: The grouping can be likewise

1.  The scientist 

1.  The statiscian

1. Developer 

1. Programmer

The projects should be assigned based upon their aspects and this will ultimately motivate them in programming world. Now let’s focus on the factors that enable and inspire the Clinical SAS programmers in the programming world

Working environment:

Being Clinical SAS programmer itself is a complex mental activity and under such circumstances, the managers really need to create an environment that allows the programmers to groom and increase the thinking power. A programmer has to manage number of files and these files may contain complexities that need to be managed in order to generate an accurate output in a timely manner. If there is any sort of distraction, then it can cause major effect on the concentration and programmer’s ability to get the work done and at last losing the temperament and leading to frustration resulting into loss of motivation. The prevention measures should be taken in order to keep the programmer from being distracted and loosing focus on their work. Following factors can prove to be useful

•  Hardware that easily retrieves the results quickly for the user

• The servers and the networks should be reliable. Suppose you are in the midst of   developing a complex piece of code and all of sudden the programmer finds that the server is crashed. This will easily make the programmer frustrated.

•   Even the workplace matters alot. It should be suitable, privacy should be maintained along with silence

The remaining two factors i.e. recognition and team work will be discussed in next part. Till time keep yourself updated with us.

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The working environment for the SAS programmer : EpochResearch Institute India Pvt Ltd. (SASAuthorised Training : Ahmedabad | Bangalore)

We have already discussed last week regarding what are the requirements to become SAS programmer? Now have you have ever imagined that this is not enough for the programmers as the working environment should also be taken into consideration. So today we will cover some of the topics that will conclude regarding the working environment for the SAS programmers and how it should be.

As we all know that that statistical programmer generally works and have allocation in statistics department or CRO. If you are not aware then CRO means contract research organization. The focal role of the statistical programmers is to utilize all their supreme SAS skills so that they allow the clinical trials statisticians to execute their statistical analysis tasks more proficiently and in well organized manner. Below I have displayed the simple work process flow of statistical programmer

Now let’s come to the other different units of CRO and groups as well as individuals that you will be working with. They are Site management, data management, project management, quality assurance, medical writing and information technology. Now let’s discuss them:

Site management - The main purpose behind site management is usually to recruit doctors at clinics and train the staffs. The site management can be your responsibilities by helping to get the data go through clean and voluntarily usable form.

Data management - Usually the statistical programmer closely works with data management team. The core function of the data management team is to design case report form, data entry, data cleaning, data quality control, data coding, database design and setup and providing the clinical trial data for analysis. Finally the data management team will provide the statistical programmer with the data by way of relational data management system     and then it can be imported to SAS. It proves to be an extra advantageous if the statistical programmer is provided with well cleaned and coded clinical database that would ultimately save the programmer’s time.

Project management - The project manager provides with an oversight of the clinical trials. A project manager usually works with laboratories, pharmaceutical companies and CROs. The main exchange between the project manager and statistical programmer is the project manager has to work with programmer over the course of the clinical trials

Quality assurance - The main goal of the quality assurance team is to meet the standards as well as maintain the regulatory standards of the organization. Internal audits are also performed in order to check the regulatory standards at the organization. At last, the quality assurance team maintains the SOPs i.e. standard operating procedures

Medical writing - The purpose and tasks of the medical writers is to create documents for the organization. They usually help in writing the clinical study reports for FDA. They also write for NDA submission. On various occasions the medical writing group will request for additional data as they accumulate their reporting.

Information technology – The role for IT is generally to maintain the system infrastructure, maintenance and general computer help desk support. They will be also performing with some level of software development. You have to work with IT section for SAS configuration management and installation and desktop publishing. You have to work with an external IT staff in regard to information exchange technologies like FTP.

So these are the various facets of the working environment for the SAS programmer. Do yo know more regarding the same? You can share your views.

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What are the job responsibilities and tasks of Clinical SAS Programmer? : Epoch Research Institute India Pvt. Ltd. (www.epoch.co.in)

What are the job responsibilities and tasks of Clinical SAS Programmer? : EpochResearch Institute India Pvt Ltd. (SASAuthorised Training : Ahmedabad | Bangalore)

I hope so you might have enjoyed my last post and viewed the video “How SAS is applied in Clinical trials?” Today I want to share my views on what are the job tasks and duties of a Clinical SAS programmer. Being a Clinical SAS programmer is not a effortless and straightforward task. There are various job responsibilities and duties of a Clinical SAS programmer. Now here we will discuss what the overall purpose of the job role is:
•    He has to create the SAS datasets of clinical data from Biometric databases•    He has to create the status and effective datasets.•    Has to create specific macros and formats•    He has to prepare the data to send it to clients•    He has to load the data of client’s from other platform•    He has to create listings, summary tables as well as graphs keeping in view the statistical analysis plan

Now let’s discuss the responsibilities of Clinical SAS programmer. It is mentioned below:
•    He has to create the tables, review tables and listing mocks
•    He has to make certain that the internal consistency is maintained among tables and listings
•    He has to be certain whether all the CRF fields are displayed on the listings or not
•    He has to review the clinical data for invalid data points and outliers
•    He has to get in touch with Clinical data management in order to resolve the issues related to data
•  He should be capable to use the frequencies, Proc transpose as well as macros and in accordance with it must be able to modify the existing macros and write macros
•   He must follow all the relevant SOP’s and guidelines taking into consideration programming and the change control management of all the files that are created by Biometric programming group
•  The code has to be written using Base SAS program, SAS procedures or standardized macros
•  The data check has to be performed as per the requirement in order to understand the structure and content of the data
•   He has to write and compare the QC programs in order to verify the output that is generated for data display
•   Coordination is required for qc project teams on large projects. This includes training and entrustment of QC work
•    He has to send the tables and listings to clinical writers and clients
•    He has to attend both the client as well as team meetings as per the requirement
•   He has to assist in setting up departmental processes as well as should also interact with other departments or other departmental administrative tasks
So these are the job responsibilities and duties of a Clinical SAS programmer. Do you know much more regarding the same? Kindly provide with your views.

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The life of the SAS Statistical programmer in the Pharmaceutical industry : Epoch Research Institute India Pvt. Ltd. (www.epoch.co.in)

The life of the SAS Statistical programmer in the Pharmaceutical industry : EpochResearch Institute India Pvt Ltd. (SASAuthorised Training : Ahmedabad | Bangalore)

In this post I would share the views on how is the life of the SAS statistical programmer in the pharmaceutical industry. So as we all know that there is range of jobs available in the pharmaceutical industry that allows the opportunity to travel as well as work.

Being a statistical programmer, the mainstream of your tasks that are performed in the pharmaceutical industry is using SAS. People possessing SAS skills gets widen opportunities. There are many universities that provide and educate with SAS courses. But still, if you want to become confident and convinced, I would suggest you for job training. With an ease, you can transfer your SAS programming skills while working in pharmaceutical companies and switching to the next if provided with and opportunity. Some of the SAS programmers accidentally fall in the pharmaceutical industry. But later on they acquire the specialist SAS skills finally leading them to the excellent progress in career.

Many of the pharmaceutical companies as well as contract research organizations (CRO’s) are well developed employee oriented and they offer their employees the training opportunities. They really encourage and egg on their employees to attend the conferences (programming conferences) around as per the location. The employee can be motivated by learning the new concepts in medical areas. The daily tasks include SAS programming, derived datasets, producing summary tables, figures and listings.

In derived datasets, variables are to be formatted as well as labelled. It should be derived. Variables could be as simple as calculating the mass index of the patient starting from the birth date till the screening test. The programmer feels each variable to be a new challenge and he regularly searches new methods to derive the methods in short efficient programming. Next going to summary tables, listing, figures, and shell is provided in the analysis plan to figure out the information to be displayed. It becomes more important to check whether the drug is having a different impact on patient’s body i.e. blood pressure, heart rate. Raw data of variables that are summarized in tables and details are contained in Listings.

Lastly, developing a drug is costly business. The drug development process usually takes around 10-15 years to develop. It is strictly important that the studies reported should be accurate and precisely checked. Due to this it becomes prominent to undertake a quality control checking strictly under the government regulatory guidance.

So this is how the life of a SAS statistical programmer in the Pharmaceutical industry filled with different phases. Are you one of them? So kindly share your views and experienc.

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The working environment for the SAS programmer : Epoch Research Institute India Pvt. Ltd. (www.epoch.co.in)

The working environment for the SAS programmer : EpochResearch Institute India Pvt Ltd. (SASAuthorised Training : Ahmedabad | Bangalore)

We have already discussed last week regarding what are the requirements to become SAS programmer? Now have you have ever imagined that this is not enough for the programmers as the working environment should also be taken into consideration. So today we will cover some of the topics that will conclude regarding the working environment for the SAS programmers and how it should be.

As we all know that that statistical programmer generally works and have allocation in statistics department or CRO. If you are not aware then CRO means contract research organization. The focal role of the statistical programmers is to utilize all their supreme SAS skills so that they allow the clinical trials statisticians to execute their statistical analysis tasks more proficiently and in well organized manner. Below I have displayed the simple work process flow of statistical programmer
.

Now let’s come to the other different units of CRO and groups as well as individuals that you will be working with. They are Site management, data management, project management, quality assurance, medical writing and information technology. Now let’s discuss them:

Site management - The main purpose behind site management is usually to recruit doctors at clinics and train the staffs. The site management can be your responsibilities by helping to get the data go through clean and voluntarily usable form.

Data management - Usually the statistical programmer closely works with data management team. The core function of the data management team is to design case report form, data entry, data cleaning, data quality control, data coding, database design and setup and providing the clinical trial data for analysis. Finally the data management team will provide the statistical programmer with the data by way of relational data management system     and then it can be imported to SAS. It proves to be an extra advantageous if the statistical programmer is provided with well cleaned and coded clinical database that would ultimately save the programmer’s time.

Project management - The project manager provides with an oversight of the clinical trials. A project manager usually works with laboratories, pharmaceutical companies and CROs. The main exchange between the project manager and statistical programmer is the project manager has to work with programmer over the course of the clinical trials

Quality assurance - The main goal of the quality assurance team is to meet the standards as well as maintain the regulatory standards of the organization. Internal audits are also performed in order to check the regulatory standards at the organization. At last, the quality assurance team maintains the SOPs i.e. standard operating procedures

Medical writing - The purpose and tasks of the medical writers is to create documents for the organization. They usually help in writing the clinical study reports for FDA. They also write for NDA submission. On various occasions the medical writing group will request for additional data as they accumulate their reporting.

Information technology – The role for IT is generally to maintain the system infrastructure, maintenance and general computer help desk support. They will be also performing with some level of software development. You have to work with IT section for SAS configuration management and installation and desktop publishing. You have to work with an external IT staff in regard to information exchange technologies like FTP.

So these are the various facets of the working environment for the SAS programmer. Do yo know more regarding the same? You can share your views.

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What are the job responsibilities and tasks of Clinical SAS Programmer? : Epoch Research Institute India Pvt. Ltd. (www.epoch.co.in)

What are the job responsibilities and tasks of Clinical SAS Programmer? : EpochResearch Institute India Pvt Ltd. (SASAuthorised Training : Ahmedabad | Bangalore)

I hope so you might have enjoyed my last post and viewed the video “How SAS is applied in Clinical trials?” Today I want to share my views on what are the job tasks and duties of a Clinical SAS programmer. Being a Clinical SAS programmer is not a effortless and straightforward task. There are various job responsibilities and duties of a Clinical SAS programmer. Now here we will discuss what the overall purpose of the job role is:

•    He has to create the SAS datasets of clinical data from Biometric databases
•    He has to create the status and effective datasets.
•    Has to create specific macros and formats
•    He has to prepare the data to send it to clients
•    He has to load the data of client’s from other platform
•    He has to create listings, summary tables as well as graphs keeping in view the statistical analysis plan

Now let’s discuss the responsibilities of Clinical SAS programmer. It is mentioned below:

 
•    He has to create the tables, review tables and listing mocks
•    He has to make certain that the internal consistency is maintained among tables and listings
•    He has to be certain whether all the CRF fields are displayed on the listings or not
•    He has to review the clinical data for invalid data points and outliers
•    He has to get in touch with Clinical data management in order to resolve the issues related to data
•    He should be capable to use the frequencies, Proc transpose as well as macros and in accordance with it must be able to modify the existing macros and write macros
•    He must follow all the relevant SOP’s and guidelines taking into consideration programming and the change control management of all the files that are created by Biometric programming group
•    The code has to be written using Base SAS program, SAS procedures or standardized macros
•    The data check has to be performed as per the requirement in order to understand the structure and content of the data
•    He has to write and compare the QC programs in order to verify the output that is generated for data display
•    Coordination is required for qc project teams on large projects. This includes training and entrustment of QC work
•    He has to send the tables and listings to clinical writers and clients
•    He has to attend both the client as well as team meetings as per the requirement
•    He has to assist in setting up departmental processes as well as should also interact with other departments or other departmental administrative tasks

So these are the job responsibilities and duties of a Clinical SAS programmer. Do you know much more regarding the same? Kindly provide with your views.

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http://www.epoch.co.in/

https://www.facebook.com/EpochResearchInstitute

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SAS Training & Placement Programs with Internship: Epoch Research Institute India Largest and Oldest #SASTraining Institute (#epochsastraining)

EPOCH RESEARCH INSTITUTE OFFERS:

Authorized SAS TRAINING | SAS CERTIFICATION | SOFTWARE PURCHASE | BUINESS CONSULTING | TECHNICAL SUPPORT ON SAS || SAS STAFFING SOLUTION 

Label:

#SASELEARNING,#SASELEARNING,#SASONLINETRAINING,

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