To maximize the benefits of the ARCS website you can identify your Interest Areas in your Personal Details when you join. These may be the area you currently work in, related areas, or areas you are interested to consider moving into. Interest Areas you can join include:
- Asia Pacific
- Brisbane
- Clinical Quality Compliance
- Clinical Research
- Data Management And Statisitics
- Health Economics
- Lone Consultants
- Management
- Medical Devices
- Medical Information
- Medical Writing
- Melbourne
- Pharmacovigilance
- Regulatory Affairs
- South Australia
- Western Australia
By indentifying your Interest Areas you will be able to go to areas in the website where you will find Information and Education and Networking opportunities relevant to that Interest Area:
Information in the form of Industry Updates, Employment Opportunities, ARCS News and specific information relevant to the Area including: seminar and conference presentations, tools plus links to useful information and websites relevant to the Interest Area – some of these websites offer RSS feeds you can subscribe to.
Education – professional development opportunities relevant to the Interest Area will be filtered through to the Interest area pages together with ARCS’ Professional Development Pathways and tools to assist you in your current role and future training needs. Face to face training, webinars, e-learning modules will be available to you.
Networking with hundreds of other members interested in the area through online Discussion Forums. You can initiate the topics for discussion, and other members in the Interest Area will be notified by e-Bulletin, RSS feeds and on the website.
Please note: The ARCS Member Code of Conduct states that members will only use ARCS communication services to exchange information that relates to a question or issue directly relevant to their professional role and/or membership of ARCS. These services are not to be used to promote services or opportunities which may result in commercial gain for the member, their employer or any other related party or to disseminate information which a reasonable person could expect to be prejudicial to or offensive to other Members of the ARCS or is illegal.
RSS Feeds are available from the ARCS website. These can be sent to your preferred message centre (Outlook, Yahoo and Google all provide the facility to accept RSS feeds). Feeds include ARCS News, ARCS Newsletter, Industry Positions, Training Opportunities and new Discussion Topics.