clinical education specialist

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  1. Anonymous

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    Why are there so many clinical education specialist jobs open? Are they newly created positions, or is there a high turnover? Would you recommend this job?
     

  2. Anonymous

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    I would only recommend Applied if you were unemployed or about to become unemployed.
     
  3. Anonymous

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    Just think about the title of this position. CLINICAL EDUCATION SPECIALIST. Your job is to educate dr's on how to put in a trocar and stick their hand in a Gelport hand assist. What a friggin joke. You'll never be respected by any clinician and will probably be out of a job by Thanksgiving.
     
  4. Anonymous

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    The person that wrote this either doesn't know what he/she's talking about or is an idiot.

    The role of the Clinical Education Specialist is not to educate doctors on anything. It is someone who has the administrative responsibilities involved with setting up and conducting courses/labs/workshops whenever reps get at least three interested surgeons in their area registered (and the $250 course fee paid). These courses are instructed by a surgeon, not the Clinical Education Specialist. The instructor teaches the technique(s) he/she uses an Applied device for - usually GelPort, GelPoint or GelPoint Path - with members of the local sales team usually allowed to step up to the table for specific tips on deploying our devices properly. A surgeon would not be there unless he/she had a desire to learn how to use one of our products in a way they haven't before, or else they wouldn't pay $250 and give up 6 hours of their weekend to attend.

    FYI, right now the biggest course interest by surgeons is in using GelPoint as an alternative in cases they used to use a morcellator in, as that device's use has formally been discouraged by the FDA recently.
     
  5. Anonymous

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    Sounds like the writer of this comment has a problem gaining respect from his surgeons when presenting Applied products (the Rodney Dangerfield of surgical sales). Not everyone in Applied has that issue, so I suggest some introspection and either change the way you present products or move on to another company.
     
  6. Anonymous

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    If a surgeon needs a course on how to use a GelPoint to remove a uterus, please let me know because I don't want him/her to touch me or my family.

    Make an incision, insert gelpoint, remove uterus, remove gelpoint, close incision. See doc, I just saved you $250. You're telling me that the local rep can't do a five minute inservice with the surgeon before the case on gelpoint?
     
  7. Anonymous

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    Applied Medical makes its surgeons pay to go to a course to use their products?!?! I work for a competitor and find this hilarious!!! You are trying to convince the surgeon to use your product, so why should they pay you? Do you make them pay for all the airfare, tolls, lodging & food expenses too? This sounds a little unnerving to make surgeons pay their own way to your own sponsored courses. I also find it scary to think that you need to teach dr's on how to use one of your Gel devices. Sounds like this is just a way for Applied to make money off the docs and cover it up by saying its for "education." Yeah right
     
  8. Anonymous

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    If a surgeon with all his/her years of professional training is unable to decipher between the small/large intestines and/or ileocecal/ileocolic/mesenteric arteries after dissection, that individual should not be performing surgery. This, ladies and gentlemen, is why Applied is laughed at by anyone in the industry.
     
  9. Anonymous

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    So a surgeon learns nothing after his residency, is that what you're saying? Surgeons understand the anatomy and principles of good surgical technique, but they also realize that medicine is an ever-evolving science. Find me a surgeon under the age of 60 who is close-minded enough to say he/she will never change his/her surgical techniques during their career, in spite of whether or not there is evidence or the potential to benefit their patients. THAT's the surgeon I wouldn't want myself or my family to go to.

    We don't teach anatomy or surgical principles at our courses. The instructor shows a new technique that the attendees want more familiarity with. You're saying you would prefer they just try a new procedure on you or your family first, without specific training and practice in that new technique? Who's the bonehead? And the bottom line is, if surgeons didn't want to learn the technique and didn't feel they could benefit from the course why on earth do they sign up?

    Go back to being a failure, blaming Applied and whining, and the rest of us will provide benefit to our customers and make money doing it.
     
  10. Anonymous

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    Quite possibly the funniest last sentence that I've read in a long time..

    1. Make money doing it? At Applied? Really?

    2. Being a failure? Someone working for Applied calling someone else a failure? That's funny.

    As I said before, if a surgeon needs help understanding the concept of a Gelpoint and needs to go to a course for it, I don't want that surgeon touching me or my family members. It isn't that difficult so stop trying to make it sound like a trocar technique or using a single site port is brain surgery. It isn't.

    You work at Applied. You sell pieces of plastic for a living.
     
  11. Anonymous

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    cheap pieces of plastic too! When I used to work there, all the nurses and surgeons used to complain how your trocars didn't have the size on the trocar. Instead your brilliant R&D engineers color coated them and there wasn't even any consistency among sizes so light greens looked like blues and vice versa. What crap! someone in quality control should be fired but it's probably Said's retarded gimp nephew who runs that dept so he's immune.
     
  12. Anonymous

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    Clinical Specialists got the job because they A) can't sell; B) already are not respected in their current role; C) are use to not making any money; D) have superficially in larger egos that they only realize; E) were about to be fired by their manager; F) applied told them these were positions that they can train surgeons and make a contribution to humanity!!!!!