AVOID THIS PLACE !!!

[labrat1981]

This place is the 2nd worst clinic to do a study at. (WVU is #1)

- bunk beds
- wake up time is 3:30am
- have to stay in your seat for 8 hours after waking up. You can not go back to your bed until after lunch.
- staff and procedures seem disorganized. Half the time, nothing was in from labrat dosing numbers.
- INTERNET HAS NOT BEEN FIXED. IT IS FUKING SLOOOOOOW. IT ALSO DOESN'T WORK HALF THE TIME.
- no outlets at any of the beds
- hot in the dorm
- Staff treats you like cattle. They do not care about you.


The only positive thing I can say is that the food is decent.

[randoman]

Hmmm... I have been here once.
-100 alternates
-100 people in the study
lucky for me, 47 people dropped out and i got in the study last minute. (i was an alternate)
So yea, they also get way too many alternates

Perhaps the nature of the study you were in required wake up to be at 3 30am. My wakeup was at 730.
The study i did with them did not even let you go to your bed, we had an enourmous amount of blood draws, the first day was a draw every 30 minutes until about 8pm

The internet does suck, partially because the internet is connecting 100+ people at a time. Most household routers can hold a connection of about 6-10 devices playing videos or around 30 for surfing the web. Most clinics that i have been to that have 50+ participants have internet problems for that very reason, too many people connected to a single wifi router. (They are too cheap to purchase another $300 router and ethernet cord to the modem for multiple wifi connections)

the space is tight with 1 main room, several bunk rooms, like 2 couches and 1 tv. On the bright side, they had a pool table and let people step outside every 2 hours for 10 minutes or so.

I only live about 1 1/2 hours away from here, so its not bad of a drive and i would recommend a weekend study with them if you live nearby. (as long as you can handle needles, like, lots of needles)

I have not done a long-term study with them, but if i had to stay there for more than a week with that internet service i would go crazy.

[labrat1981]

Feb 21, 2018 22:57:55 GMT -5 randoman said:

Hmmm... I have been here once.
-100 alternates
-100 people in the study
lucky for me, 47 people dropped out and i got in the study last minute. (i was an alternate)
So yea, they also get way too many alternates

Perhaps the nature of the study you were in required wake up to be at 3 30am. My wakeup was at 730.
The study i did with them did not even let you go to your bed, we had an enourmous amount of blood draws, the first day was a draw every 30 minutes until about 8pm

The internet does suck, partially because the internet is connecting 100+ people at a time. Most household routers can hold a connection of about 6-10 devices playing videos or around 30 for surfing the web. Most clinics that i have been to that have 50+ participants have internet problems for that very reason, too many people connected to a single wifi router. (They are too cheap to purchase another $300 router and ethernet cord to the modem for multiple wifi connections)

the space is tight with 1 main room, several bunk rooms, like 2 couches and 1 tv. On the bright side, they had a pool table and let people step outside every 2 hours for 10 minutes or so.

I only live about 1 1/2 hours away from here, so its not bad of a drive and i would recommend a weekend study with them if you live nearby. (as long as you can handle needles, like, lots of needles)

I have not done a long-term study with them, but if i had to stay there for more than a week with that internet service i would go crazy.

The study is 2 periods of 10 days each. It sucks !

The first day we get woken up at 3:30am and then rooms are locked. We can't go back in until 8 hours later. The rest of the study, we get woken up at 4:30am and the rooms are locked for 8 hours. It's ****ing ridiculous !!

And yea, the lack of proper internet is driving us crazy !!!

[vark]

the place, like wvu, was built for weeken stu ies an is not set up for 10 night stays - you will suffer. it's small, family run, an eeply isfunctional. 4 prior versions went out of business there, an it keeps getting worse. the alternate scam was when i stoppe going there, it was marginal alrea y. to get in these ays ypou have t go, be an alternate, then come back for the very next stu y. for me it is worse than wvu because it is more ghetto.

woul i go there again? sure, if it paid right.

[ssa2016]

I'm local to the area and have mostly done weekend studies at this facility since it ed under new ownership in 2014.  Generally, the opinion of other people who do studies at other clinics is that Pharma Medica is a bottom-barrel facility.  I've voiced my complaints prior to this post, and I'd like to expand and add on some of the previous comments.  The blood draw times can vary; I've participated in at least 3 studies that I can think of that had a draw at roughly 11:30 PM and another at either 1:30 AM or 3:30 AM, followed by a 6:00 AM wake-up call and last draw at roughly 7:30 AM prior to leaving the facility at the end of the study at 7:30 AM.  So they do have some studies that have draws at very odd hours.  I've been on studies where the beds in the bunk room were so close together side by side that the only way I could get into my bunk was through the front.  Also, the tables and chairs were so close together in the room they served meals on one of my studies that I could barely get out of my seat when I was finished with my meal (only after asking the people sitting behind me and my side to move, and I don't require that when the tables are properly spaced out).  And yes, the Internet is slow.  My guess is they don't want to spend the money on better routers and equipment.  Another amenity they've been lacking lately is hot water. It may work the first full day, but there have been issues at the studies I've participated in recently where no hot water came out of the showers the second day. Other participants noted it as well.  Last, there seems to be quite a bit of turnover with the staff.  There have been quite a few new faces there recently.  It's just the little things like that that make me really wonder about the place. They definitely do some things differently than the previous two companies that were in that building, but I think they have some room for improvement.  It's somewhat close to home, so I'll gut it out and keep participating as long as I can.