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You’re pretty comfortable using the phone. It’s something you do every day in your working routine; so why is it that as soon as you need to use it for career change or job

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

-search it becomes too difficult?

Your reluctance to use the phone in your career change or job-search probably stems from anxieties about what might happen. A certain a

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

Examples of combination products may in

mount of nervousness is quite natural when you call an employer or a network contact and even more so if it’s done on a speculative basis. But don’t let that stop you.

Let

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

’s examine your reluctance to use the telephone –

“I want to telephone this employer as I’m pretty sure they’ll have an opening for me”

“They probably won’t want to speak

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

to me, or they’ll be too busy”

“I’m worried about what to say… I might make a mess of it ... they could say no ... I’ll end up feeling stupid ... and rejected”

“That mak

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

Combination pro

es me feel even worse and I don’t want to make the call now, think I’ll leave it for the moment”

“I’ll write a letter instead”

Of course letters are much ‘safer” because

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

they make rejection feel much less personal. They didn’t reject me, they rejected my letter is how you can justify that one. But, for exactly the same reasons, it is much

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

harder for an employer to say “no” to you on the telephone than it is to throw your letter into the bin. Most people are too polite to be rude to you on the phone and with

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

a deep breath and some practice you can make it work really well for you.

So let’s take another look at that:

1. You want to phone an employer about possible jobs.

2. Y

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

ou need to find the right person to speak to.

3. The secretary might ask too many questions.

4. You worry that it might be unpleasant, or that something bad will happen.

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

5. It will be so AWFUL that you worry about it even more.

6. You’re so worried and anxious about what might happen that you decide to avoid it altogether.

Where did that

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

Following aspects would a

get you? Nowhere!

Result? You’re missing out on one of the best ways of finding jobs.

Let’s now try and think about this a little more rationally - OK when you f

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

irst make a call to an employer it won’t always be successful, but try to remain in a positive frame of mind. What does a salesman do when someone says no? He simply moves

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

on to the next one - this is what you must do.

You might perhaps get tongue-tied the first few times, or the employer might not be available when you call.

But that isn’

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

t a disaster. Don’t be a ‘catastrophist’ it isn’t the end of the world. The worst that can happen is that you won’t get an interview this time - but you can always try agai

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

n. You can’t predict what will happen so don’t try - you could just as easily worry about falling under a bus but worrying about it won’t prevent it happening.

Telephone

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

phobia is very common even amongst the most experienced and outgoing people. What you need to ensure is that your anxiety and imagination does not get the better of you.

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

If you let it get the better of you, you stand to miss out on all sorts of opportunities by putting off making the call. Admittedly, if you feel really down it may be bette

.

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

r left a while until your spirits have picked up, because the telephone has a knack of amplifying the mood you’re in.

What should you do when you’ve made a good phone call

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

? – make another one while your confidence is high. You will sound more engaging and interesting and you should find that your telephone phobia is soon a thing of the past

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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A clip-on tie, a brightly colored blazer, a tool of their trade- a mop or broom, a spatula, and, or the inevitable frustrating feeling that the choice they made is a dead wringer for years on end of boredom, and the degree of humiliation that results in them having a reason to legitimately bang their head against the wall.

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