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How will you respond when you’re asked the following two questions?

1.What type of boss do you like to work for?

2.What are the pros and cons about your present employer?

-March 2003

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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 scan the career section. Then you see it; your dream job. Your resume is sent, calls made; an interview set up. Now you’re in the hot seat.

How will you respond when you’re asked the f

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

Examples of combination products may in

llowing two questions?

1.What type of boss do you like to work for?

2.What are the pros and cons about your present employer?

You’re leaving your present position because you can’t stan

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

your boss. He/She drives you insane, makes your skin crawl and shatters your nerves. Put-downs and sarcasm are the norm, along with a snobbish, condescending attitude. Most of what they s

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

ay sounds downright ridiculous and lacks common sense. Nothing is their fault. You are a team player, but cleaning up a rat’s cage, watching the kids, emptying humidifiers, unloading 40 lb

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

Combination pro

boxes up and down five flights of stairs, shoveling their driveway is beyond any job description. They listen to all your phone calls and screen everyone (including clients) like it’s the

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

panish Inquisition.

Seconds have lapsed and now you need to answer. The interviewer is waiting patiently with pen in hand. What will you say? Or better yet, what won’t you say?

Is this y

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

ou?

Ispos-Reid reported in a recent poll, that nine in ten (88%) Canadian employees agree they are happy with their current jobs, but one in ten (10%) agree they secretly hate their boss,

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

and 11% agree they dread going to work each day because of their boss. Interestingly, working Canadians in lower income households (22%) are three times as likely as those in upper income

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

ouseholds (7%) to say they secretly hate their boss.(1)

Everyone will answer differently. You don’t want be regarded as a difficult employee. Even if your objections are valid, any type o

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

negative response will work against you.

This is how you should respond:

1.What type of boss do you prefer to work for?

"I am adaptable and easygoing so I can work for any type of empl

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

Following aspects would a

oyer."

2.What are the pros and cons about your present employer?

Name his/her positive traits. It’ll be hard but do it. Do not mention his/her bad points. Try to move on saying something

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

positive such as, “He/She taught me many valuable things about the industry and myself."

When the words, “I hate my Boss” were placed on Google’s search engine, the results tallied 255, 0

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

0. There is even a site where you can place a picture of your hated boss and shoot at will.www.pcbit.com The book “I Hate My Boss: How to Survive and Get Ahead When Your Boss is a Tyrant,

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

Control Freak, or Just Plain Crazy” by Bob Weinstein, published by McGraw-Hill, promises some laughs and serious advice on how to deal with this sensitive situation.

What now? You’ve fini

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

hed the interview confidently and landed the job. Now it’s time for the resignation letter. But that’s a whole other article.

(1) These are the findings of an Ipsos-Reid poll conducted on

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

behalf of BBC Canada and Alliance Atlantis Communications between February 25th and February 27th, 2003. The poll is based on a randomly selected sample of 468 employed adult Canadians. Wi

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

th a sample of this size, the results are considered accurate to within ± 4.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, of what they would have been had the entire employed adult Canadian pop

.

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

lation been polled. The margin of error will be larger within regions and for other sub-groupings of the survey population. These data were statistically weighted to ensure the sample's re

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

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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