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. 2021 Dec 24;38(12):1991–2001. doi: 10.1007/s11095-021-03149-y

Table VIII.

Distribution of Replies From Respondents With Differing Employment About Educational Topics to Focus on Now. Respondents Were Allowed to Select Up to Four Educational Topics, with n = 203 Answering Employment Question. Values are Percentages of Respondents Who Selected the Specified Educational Topic. The Six Largest Employment Categories are Shown; Across All These Respondents (n = 169), There Were 607 Selections (Average 3.59 Per Respondent). No Employee Type Differed From All Others in Any Topic Reply (Wald Chi-square p > 0.004). Likewise, in Table S4a, Generic Drug Employees and Non-Generic Drug Employees did Not Differ in Any Topic Reply (Wald Chi-square p > 0.04)

Educational topic Generic drug industrial scientist or manufacturing personnel (n = 51) Generic drug executive or management (n = 60) CRO, CMO, or CDMO executive or management (n = 19) Innovator drug executive or management (n = 15) Health care professional (n = 11) Academic (n = 13)
Complex injectables, formulations, and nanomaterials 68.6% 55.0% 63.2% 53.3% 72.7% 46.2%
Drug-device combination products 52.9% 53.3% 38.8% 40.0% 54.5% 61.5%
Data analytics, including quantitative methods and modeling & simulation 47.1% 46.7% 31.6% 40.0% 45.5% 30.8%
Long-acting injectables and implants 35.3% 21.7% 47.4% 33.3% 18.2% 38.5%
Locally-acting physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling 37.3% 36.7% 21.1% 46.7% 36.4% 0.0%
Complex mixtures and peptides 27.5% 23.3% 42.1% 6.7% 18.2% 15.4%
Oral absorption models and bioequivalence 11.8% 23.3% 31.6% 33.3% 9.1% 38.5%
Inhalation and nasal products 23.5% 20.0% 26.3% 40.0% 36.4% 23.1%
Patient substitution of generic drugs 9.8% 18.3% 15.8% 26.7% 18.2% 30.8%
Topical dermatologic drug products 15.7% 18.3% 26.3% 6.7% 27.3% 15.4%
Ophthalmic products 25.5% 23.3% 21.1% 6.7% 0.0% 23.1%
Quantitative clinical pharmacology 5.9% 6.7% 10.5% 6.7% 27.3% 15.4%
Other educational topic 3.9% 5.0% 10.5% 13.3% 0.0% 0.0%