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    Are background checks a formality?

    In other words, once you've made it to the reference check stage, are y
    According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product
    ou virtually guaranteed to get the job?

    No.

    As a recruiter, I've seen jobs lost at the reference check stage whe
    ; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

    Examples of combination products may in
    the references don't speak as highly of the job searcher as the hiring manager would have liked.

    The reference c
    lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

    heck stage tends to be one that job searchers often don't take very seriously and I'm always amazed when this happ
    here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
    ns.

    One of the biggest mistakes that people make at the reference check stage is thinking that it simply involves
    d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

    Combination pro
    giving the potential hiring manager a list of names of people that they've worked with in the past and assuming th
    ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc
    at everything will work out.

    Once, I got a call from a call out of the blue from a guy who asked me if he could d
    easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi
    a reference check on a woman I'd worked with over one year earlier. The call took me by surprise because I hadn't
    nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
    spoken with this lady since we'd worked together (ie. over one year earlier) and I had no idea she was looking fo
    and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ
    a job or that she was using me as a reference!

    It took me about a minute into the call before I actually realize
    ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
    what was going on. Since I was working as a recruiter, I was used to doing reference checks on people, not
    ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

    Following aspects would a
    being used as a reference check so this call really surprised me since I hadn't been warned.

    What she should hav
    dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

    Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
    Which combination prod
    done was:
      1. Ask me ahead of time if it was ok to use me as a reference. I would have had no problem being
    cts are meaningful and rational?
    Which therapeutic categories to select?
    Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
    Do combin
    used as a reference but she should have asked.

    2. Let me know right before a company might be calling me to do a
    tions increase the patient compliance?
    What would be the developing cost?
    How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
    reference check on her.

    3. Let me know what sort of job she was interviewing for so during the reference check, I
    t?

    As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel
    could highlight skills that she has that would be relevant to the job. I never did find out if she got the
    ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

    Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
    job because she didn't let me know and we've lost touch and haven't spoken since then.

    Actually, that would be p
    y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
    int number 4 that she should have done: She should have let me know if she got the job after I completed the refer
    .

    As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de
    ence check. It would have been nice to know the result.

    It would have made it easier and more productive if she h
    elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

    Companies that provide selfless information through particip
    d done a few simple things to make her reference (ie. me) more aware of what was going on and how I could help her


    tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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