Field Medical Excellence: Optimizing Structure and Resourcing

• Field Team Staffing
• Field Team Resourcing
• Field Medical Team Organizational Structure

• How do you expect the size of your field medical team to change in the next 24 months for the indicated therapeutic area?
• On average, what percentage of the peak MSL team size are assigned to support a product at each phase of the typical product lifecycle?
• What is the approximate annual total travel and entertainment (T&E) budget allocated to an MSL in each of the listed countries/regions?
• To what part of the organization do your MSLs directly report?
• How are MSLs and other field-based medical staff assigned across your organization?
• How do your local affiliate office(s) provide field medical team support across the region?
• How effective are each of the of the listed field-based resources that your Medical Affairs organization has deployed to support your treatment portfolio?

• Field staff almost always work within Medical organization, but may report directly to country, TA or other units: Within nearly all surveyed organizations, MSLs are aligned to the Medical organization. That said, MSLs are slightly more likely to report to a global Therapeutic Area unit (rather than Global Medical), and MSL managers and field directors more often report to the Country unit than any other part of the company.

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