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Clinical Research Coordinators
Plan, direct, or coordinate clinical research projects. Direct the activities of workers engaged in clinical research projects to ensure compliance with protocols and overall clinical objectives. May evaluate and analyze clinical data.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Schedule subjects for appointments, procedures, or inpatient stays as required by study protocols.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Perform specific protocol procedures such as interviewing subjects, taking vital signs, and performing electrocardiograms.Mostly human for now
- 03Assess eligibility of potential subjects through methods such as screening interviews, reviews of medical records, or discussions with physicians and nurses.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Prepare study-related documentation, such as protocol worksheets, procedural manuals, adverse event reports, institutional review board documents, or progress reports.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Inform patients or caregivers about study aspects and outcomes to be expected.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Record adverse event and side effect data and confer with investigators regarding the reporting of events to oversight agencies.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Monitor study activities to ensure compliance with protocols and with all relevant local, federal, and state regulatory and institutional polices.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Oversee subject enrollment to ensure that informed consent is properly obtained and documented.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Maintain required records of study activity including case report forms, drug dispensation records, or regulatory forms.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Identify protocol problems, inform investigators of problems, or assist in problem resolution efforts, such as protocol revisions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss6%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
53%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 34% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 39% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Perform specific protocol procedures such as interviewing subjects, taking vital signs, and performing electrocardiograms.