Clinical Research Training

Clinical research is the process of testing new products on sample populations before introducing the samples into the marketplace whereas clinical practice is the process of administering the products to the patients. Clinical research can be thought of as similar to testing and clinical practice can be thought of as being similar to the actual execution. Clinical research is the discovery and testing of new products before they are launched into the marketplace whereas clinical practice is the process of using the drugs that have been already tested. Clinical research is used for testing and validating the test cases against actual results whereas clinical practice deals with the actual practice of using the drugs developed during clinical research.

Another significant difference is the element of risk involved in clinical research and clinical practice. Both of them have significantly different risk factors associated with testing products and trying them on sample populations as opposed to using them on patients. In the case of the former, the risk is always present as the sample population may react adversely to the tests whereas in clinical practice, the risk is somewhat minimized as the drugs are used only after validation by the clinical research.