I am entering my final year of graduate school and am starting to heavily explore job opportunities and career paths outside of academia.  I began to arrange mini internships/shadowing opportunities on my own, however I have few connections into the pharmaceutical and corporate clinical studies world. My interests and strengths are heavily based in communications, including written, oral, and graphic design. I have explored medical science liaison jobs, but I'm not really sure what else is out there or how to get my foot in the door. Visiting these companies and talking with professionals could be really valuable to me.

I have been able to arrange one shadowing experience at Washington University (academia, yes, but they have a clinical trial center, and diabetes research center, and a translational science institute, all of which are up my alley!).  I will be there on Aug 6-7. I'm hoping the VT BEST trip will be earlier in the week! I have not booked my plane tickets yet, so I am still flexible.

Also, my advisor helped me arrange an informational interview with a research scientist at Pharmavite (they own NatureMade), which will be in a few weeks.

I think that's all :) Thanks!!
Karen