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Four-thirty-five in the afternoon finds me once again waiting for a train, returning from another hair-done, pressed-jacket, best-shoes-and-smile Job interview.

The last hour sits heavily

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

on my mind and thinking about it, I don't know what the outcome of the interview will be. "After-interview syndrome" leaves me feeling either on top of the world, visualising how much I'm

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

oing to enjoy the job I think I've just won, or walking away painfully conscious of all the things I should have said and done, but didn't.

PERSONALITIES

I've had extensive "Employment In

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

erview training" with various people. Private Agencies, The Employment Service, "Executive Job Club", and my fifteen years experience in professional sales gives me other skills to call on

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

. But I still conclude that where interviews are concerned, it's down to personalities. Either the Interviewer likes you or not. If so, you're in with a chance. If not, - no matter how

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

ell qualified you are - no job. Not in most fields anyway. Everyone has their own opinions, likes and dislikes.

"Equal Opportunity for all" is a marvellous concept, but like racism and o

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

her Social ills, you can't really legislate against personal taste.

CHOICE

Several years ago, I was interviewed by someone who quite obviously took to me. I answered his questions poorly

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

and made many other mistakes in the interview, including accepting the cigarette which was offered, (against all the rules) and joining my interviewer in some very bad jokes. We got on an

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

I got the job! In previous interviews where I was one-hundred-and-ten-per cent qualified, with all the right experience in all the right places, I've answered questions perfectly, carrie

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

it all off by the book, and afterwards received negative response.

You can't odds it, as they say. There seem to be no rules. The Employment market today belongs to the Employers and th

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

y can choose exactly who they want to employ. Exact qualifications, the exact person with the exact experience they want.

GETTING WHAT YOU WANT

Your chances of getting exactly the job YO

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

U want and are well qualified for, with the company of your choice and at the right salary, are practically nonexistent today. Unless of course, you really ARE the best in your field (in w

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

ich case you're probably not out of a job!).

Applying for a position for which you are merely VERY WELL QUALIFIED is still a long shot.

But the chances of an employer procuring someone wh

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

fits their profile exactly are extremely high. That's the way the Employment market is right now, and it may be that way from here on out.

NO REWARDS?

Sitting at the station contemplati

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

ng the effort and expectation I've put into yet another interview, I can genuinely sympathise with anyone who is actively engaged on the job search trail. It has all the potential necessar

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

for total self-destruction and very few rewards until and unless you win a job.

On two occasions in the past three years I've "beaten" others from a list of over 300 to become one of the

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ast TWO candidates for one vacancy. Both times I came second. After exhausting interviews, days of homework preparing presentations, and maintaining a positive attitude which Gandhi or Mo

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

ther Theresa would be proud of, the sense of loss is immense.

There are no prizes for second place when there's only one vacancy .......

Three hours ago I sat on the train here, bright-ey

.

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

d, bushy tailed, and going to incredible lengths to keep even the smallest unwanted crease from my jacket, neurotically flicking away even the tiniest dust mote.

But now the homeward train

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

rumbling into the station pulls my thoughts free.

I climb aboard and slump into a free seat. Carelessly, I run my fingers through my hair and ponder ....... "What shall we have for tea?

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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