Focus Forward

8 February 2012

Looking at the Regulatory Profession at a Critical Time

By Sherry Keramidas, PhD, FASAE, CAE

For more than 20 years, RAPS has studied the scope of practice and compensation of regulatory professionals. Through our biennial survey, we have tracked the growing and increasingly varied responsibilities of regulatory professionals and the accompanying need for new knowledge and competencies; the career development patterns of regulatory professionals; the compensation trends; and the role of professionals within their organizations.

RAPS has recently launched the 2012 Global Scope of Practice and Compensation Survey and this research may be even more important now than ever before. The health sector is undergoing change and scrutiny at an unprecedented pace while the need and demand for safe and effective healthcare products continues to escalate. The regulatory profession is growing worldwide and its role in helping to guide and shape the health sector may also be increasing. Now is the time to examine the profession and the roles its practitioners are playing at all levels.   [Read More...]

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