Clinical Pivot AI
Explore clinical research careers, build practical knowledge and develop the skills to prepare for new professional opportunities.
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Clinical trials run on projects, timelines, documentation and people. Experience with any of these is a real foundation.
Clinical Pivot teaches the specialised knowledge that sits on top of it: how trials are planned, managed and monitored.
Use your existing professional strengths as a foundation for new learning.
The premise
Your experience matters. Build the clinical research knowledge to explore what’s next.
Programs we offer
Learn independently, prepare with group guidance, or learn live with personal mentorship. One Study App, three levels of support.
All prices are in US dollars.
Start here
US$500
Learn independently · 6 months
Solo, plus
US$1,000
Prepare with group guidance · 6 months
Connect, plus
US$3,500
Learn live with personal mentorship · 12 months
| Line by lineEvery program includes the foundational curriculum, knowledge checks, AI résumé and LinkedIn guidance and a Certificate of Completion. Only the differences are listed. | SoloLearn independentlyUS$500 | ConnectPrepare with group guidanceUS$1,000 | ElevateLearn live with personal mentorshipUS$3,500 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Learning | |||
| Study App access | 6 months | 6 months | 12 months |
| Curriculum | 8 foundational modules | All 18 modules | All 18 modules |
| Role-specific CRA, CTM and Clinical Project Manager education | Not included | Included | Included |
| Advanced simulated case studies and practice exercises | Not included | Included | Included |
| Live instructor-led training | Not included | Not included | 7 weeks, 15 seats |
| Final knowledge check | 17 questions | 50 questions | 50 questions |
| Interview and career preparation | |||
| Interview preparation | Basic | Full Interview Mastery Lab + interview tracks | Full Interview Mastery Lab + interview tracks |
| Résumé | AI guide | AI guide + resources | Personalized preparation and review |
| Guide | Guide | Personalized optimization | |
| Live support | |||
| Monthly live group interview clinics | Not included | 6 months | 6 months |
| Individual interview coaching and feedback | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Direct WhatsApp mentorship during the support period | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Six months of group accountability | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Premium Interview Vault, Insider Notes, live-session materials | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Enrollment | |||
| When you can start | Any day | Any day | New cohort every quarter |
Upgrade any time. Everything you have already paid is credited toward the next program: Solo to Connect is US$500 more, Solo to Elevate US$3,000 more, Connect to Elevate US$2,500 more. Your progress stays with you, and an upgrade to Elevate places you in the next confirmed cohort. Message us to upgrade.
The long view
Clinical research is a global industry. The work moves from supporting one study, to overseeing sites, to running trials, to leading operations.
Scope grows. So does responsibility.
A global industry
Trials run across every major market, and the standards travel with them.
A defined progression
Not a flat job title. Each rung widens what you are responsible for.
Projects, people, decisions
The work is coordination and judgment, not one narrow technical task.
Pharma, biotech and CROs
Three kinds of employer, with different entry points into the same field.
Remote and hybrid roles exist
Depending on the function and the employer. Others are site-based.
A regulated field
The bar to entry is real, which keeps the candidate pool smaller than most.
With experience, some clinical research career paths progress into six-figure management and leadership roles.
Compensation and work arrangements vary by employer, location and experience. Clinical Pivot does not guarantee employment, a specific title or a salary.
Career pathways
Clinical research is a ladder, not a single door. This is the shape of it — and people enter at different rungs.
Clinical Trial / Study Support
Clinical Trial Assistant · Study Coordinator · Clinical Operations Support
Clinical Research Associate
Senior CRA / Lead CRA
Clinical Trial Manager
Clinical Project Manager
Clinical Operations Leadership
CRA
Works closest to investigational sites.
Monitoring · Source and data · Safety · Protocol compliance · Site relationships
“What is happening at this site?”
CTM
Looks across several sites and the CRA team.
Site performance · Enrollment · Monitoring oversight · Risk · Issue escalation
“Is this happening at one site, or across several?”
CPM
Looks at broader study delivery.
Timeline · Milestones · Vendors · Resources · Budget · Sponsor communication
“What does this mean for the whole study?”
People may enter this pathway at different points depending on their experience, qualifications and employer requirements.
One mentor
Seven weeks, live, teaching how trials are planned, managed and monitored, how to build on the experience you already have, and how to prepare for the roles you want.
Capped at 15 seats.
Your clinical research mentor
Dr. Funkie Tee
Founder, Clinical Pivot AI
More than two decades across clinical research, public health and pharmacy.
A life sciences professional and educator with experience spanning clinical research, pharmaceutical operations, project leadership and medical affairs.
Through Clinical Pivot AI she provides independent professional education: structured learning, applied exercises and the responsible use of AI.
Clinical Pivot AI is an independent educational program and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by the founder’s current or former employers.
Live teaching
Every session, in real time. Questions get answered in the room.
Résumé and interview preparation
Guided in Solo and Connect. Personalized review and individual coaching in Elevate.
15 seats
Small enough that your progress is visible.
How it works
Nothing stays theoretical.
Understand the work.
Solve realistic scenarios.
Create practical work products.
Talk about your work confidently.
The program journey
Each week, what you will be able to do by the end of it.
Select a week to see the detail.
Weeks 1 to 6 build the clinical research understanding. Week 7 is the career launchpad — but resume positioning and interview preparation start in week 1 and run alongside the teaching, and the six months of accountability support carry stage five past the final session.
Part I · Foundations
Learn how a trial is structured and who owns what.
BuildYour own working reference for the industry, built the way you think.
Why it mattersYou stop guessing which roles you could actually do.
Dense regulatory documents are where beginners drown and managers stay calm. You learn to put AI in front of them so you arrive at the meeting already understanding what matters.
Part II · Setting a Study Up
Learn how to read a protocol and spot operational risk.
BuildA feasibility assessment you can show and talk through.
Why it mattersThis is the thinking trial managers use every week.
This is where AI changes what one person can do. You learn to pressure-test a study design in an afternoon — the kind of analysis that used to need a team, and the kind that gets you noticed.
Part II · Setting a Study Up
Learn what has to happen before a site sees a single participant.
BuildA complete, reviewed start-up pack.
Why it mattersStart-up is where a lot of career changers get their first role.
You learn to use AI to review consent documents and compare sites in a fraction of the usual time, then check its work — because the checking is the part employers pay for.
Part III · Running a Study
Learn how recruitment and retention are planned, and rescued.
BuildA recruitment and retention plan for a live study.
Why it mattersEnrolment performance is the first question in most trial-management interviews.
AI can read through unstructured health records and surface who might be eligible in minutes. You learn to direct that work and interpret it — which is a manager’s job, not an assistant’s.
Part III · Running a Study
Learn how monitoring, safety and data quality connect.
BuildA full monitoring write-up with your risk findings.
Why it mattersThis is the day-to-day of CRA and CTM work.
You learn how AI spots patterns across many sites that a person reading one report would miss — the shift from checking a site to overseeing a portfolio, which is exactly the shift into management.
Part IV · Closing a Study
Learn what a clean close-out requires, and why it gets audited.
BuildA reconciled, inspection-ready file.
Why it mattersProject managers are judged on how studies end, not how they start.
AI shortens the grind of finding gaps and loose ends, so you spend your attention on the judgment calls. Learning which is which is the real skill.
Career Launchpad
Learn how to position your background and answer scenario questions.
BuildYour resume, your story, and an answer bank you keep.
Why it mattersYou leave with a plan, not a certificate.
You practise against an AI interviewer playing a CRO lead, and you learn to explain your own AI workflow to a hiring manager — which almost no other candidate can do.
Training work products
Across the 7 weeks you produce a set of practical documents and trackers — the same kinds of artifacts clinical research teams work from every day.
These are training work products built during the program for learning and portfolio purposes. They are not real sponsor deliverables and are not presented as paid work experience.
How AI fits
AI runs through the program, not as a bonus module. You use it to read dense material faster, draft work products, spot patterns and practise interviews.
AI can accelerate the work. You still need to know whether the answer is right.
Every exercise uses sample protocols, fictional scenarios and synthetic data, never real patient or confidential sponsor information.
Read faster, and understand what you are looking at.
Draft the work product, then make it yours.
Test your thinking against what the protocol actually says.
Tighten the workflow so the next one takes less time.
Testimonials
Education. Engineering. Language arts. Accounting. Psychology. Years at home. What they shared was a willingness to learn how clinical research works — and how their own experience could translate.
In their own words
Participants who arrived from outside clinical research — and what changed for them.
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Before you enroll
Where you would start
Most people entering from outside start in study support or coordination. Trial Manager and Project Manager roles come later, with experience behind them.
This may not suit you if you want
A certification only, guaranteed placement, or a promise about outcomes. Clinical Pivot is practical, participation-based education.
Individual experiences, shared with permission. Career outcomes depend on each employer’s requirements, the candidate’s background and relevant professional experience. Clinical Pivot does not place candidates or guarantee interviews or employment.
How joining works
Solo and Connect start any day. Elevate runs in four live cohorts a year. Enquire anytime to find the start that suits you.
Enquire anytime
Explore the programme and ask about the next available cohort. Enquiring does not confirm a place.
If a class has started
We will explain whether late entry is appropriate and what catching up would involve.
Then you enrol
Your place and learning arrangements are confirmed before you pay.
Clinical Pivot Elevate · live cohorts
Seven weeks of live Saturday training, 15 seats each. Solo and Connect do not wait for a cohort: start any day.
Winter
January – February7 weeks, Saturdays, live
Spring
April – May7 weeks, Saturdays, live
Summer
July – August7 weeks, Saturdays, live
Fall
October – November7 weeks, Saturdays, live
Next planned cohort: Winter 2027. Each cohort is confirmed, with its dates, once enrollment supports it; a planned cohort may be rescheduled. Join the Winter 2027 waitlist and you hear first.
Questions
Is this for me?
No. Most participants arrive from outside the industry with a college degree and professional experience. The program starts from how trials actually run.
No. You need at least a college degree; you do not need to be a clinician. Clinical research teams are built from project, data, documentation, quality and operations people, and the program teaches the clinical side.
Live sessions run on North American time. If you are elsewhere, Solo and Connect work in any time zone; message us before choosing Elevate so we can confirm the schedule suits you.
How the program works
Elevate is live: seven Saturday sessions of about 90 minutes. Connect adds one live group interview clinic a month for six months. Solo is self-paced.
You get that week’s slides and materials, and everything stays in the Clinical Pivot AI Study App.
Sessions are not recorded, so message us ahead if you know you will miss one.
No. It is education and career preparation.
You receive a Certificate of Completion when you meet the completion requirements. It reflects completion of the program, not a professional licence, certification or accreditation.
A guided preparation studio inside your program. From a real job posting and your résumé it maps the competencies, builds 30 likely questions, develops your genuine career stories, gives you role-specific hypothetical cases to practise, runs a mock interview with your own AI tool and prints a one-page readiness card.
Solo includes basic interview preparation. Connect and Elevate include the full Lab.
No. Clinical Pivot AI is an independent educational program and is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by the founder’s current or former employers. The founder teaches as an independent educator, using public, sample and fictional materials only.
Joining a cohort
Yes. You can enquire anytime. Classes follow scheduled cohort dates, and we will confirm the available options.
Solo and Connect are rolling admission: enroll any day and start as soon as your account is activated.
Elevate runs a new live cohort every quarter: Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall, 15 seats each. Each cohort and its dates are confirmed once enrollment supports it.
Late entry may be considered where suitable catch-up arrangements and places are available.
Contact us before paying so we can confirm whether joining the current cohort is appropriate.
Joining late does not restart the live cohort. Any missed learning and the remaining live schedule must be agreed before you enrol.
Catch-up arrangements are not fixed. If late entry is being considered, we will discuss exactly what catching up would involve, and agree it with you, before anything is approved.
You can still enquire about the next available start. Future dates will be shared when they are confirmed.
Career outcomes
Study support and coordination first, then the CRA, trial management and project management pathway.
Career opportunities depend on each employer’s requirements, the candidate’s background and the relevant professional experience.
Entry point depends on your prior experience and the employer’s requirements. The program teaches the knowledge and shows how the ladder connects; it does not replace the professional experience employers may require for senior roles.
No. We provide education, career preparation and, in Elevate, mentorship.
Hiring outcomes depend on prior experience, employer requirements, location and the market. Clinical Pivot does not place candidates.
Tuition and payment
Solo, US$500: six months of the Study App, the foundational curriculum, career pathway overviews, knowledge checks, AI résumé and LinkedIn guidance, and basic interview preparation.
Connect, US$1,000: everything in Solo plus the full technical curriculum, role-specific CRA, CTM and CPM education, advanced case studies, the full Interview Mastery Lab, professional résumé resources and six months of monthly live group interview clinics.
Elevate, US$3,500: everything in Connect plus seven weeks of live training, twelve months of the Study App, personalized résumé and LinkedIn review, individual interview coaching, direct WhatsApp mentorship during the support period and six months of group accountability.
Every program is one payment, in US dollars. There are no installment plans. If you want to spread the cost, start with Solo or Connect and move up when you are ready; what you have paid counts as credit.
If you are in Canada and need a payment arrangement, contact us before enrolling.
Yes. What you have paid counts as credit: Solo to Connect US$500, Solo to Elevate US$3,000, Connect to Elevate US$2,500. Your learning history carries over.
Moves into Elevate join the next confirmed cohort. Message us and we send the upgrade link.
No. Access is immediate and fully digital, so all sales are final.
Full terms are on the Terms page. If you are unsure whether the program fits, message us before you enroll.
After the program
Yes. Connect includes six months of monthly live group interview clinics. Elevate adds six months of group accountability after the seven weeks, plus individual coaching during the support period.
Get in touch
Not sure whether your background fits, or whether this is the right time? WhatsApp is the fastest way to reach us, and you get a straight answer from your mentor, not a sales script. If you would rather write, the form goes to the same place.
We usually reply the same day.
