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I’m nearly through my first week back to work. Although I have showed up each day, it doesn’t feel like I am “working” yet. I have read through the emails, and begun the catch up reading on my project. In today’s three hour training session, the director from my department asked me if I’d be on a task force to help in initiating an upcoming project. As I sat in my fog, I agreed.

Unfortunately, as is generally the case at my company, most the training information, emails and reading are full of acronyms. Many of the acronyms that I am coming across are foreign to me. “CRDM”, “EDS”, “SGL-7”, “QIDS”…SOB, I just can’t take this.

Like alphabet soup, each spoonful is just as puzzling as the next. Oh well. The soup of the day (every day this week) is Acronym Soup. I wonder what will be on the menu for next week.

I had no idea how much I’ve had cycling on the brain until today. While attempting to read a work-related article heavy in acronyms, I was hard pressed to train my brain to recognize the acronyms for what they were meant to signify.  TDF and TdF are not the same. Nor are SRM and SRAM alike. But, try as I might, I simply could not manage to get my brain to pull the intended meaning while doing this background reading.

This is not the first time I’ve been drowning in acronym soup. Having written about it on a few other occasions, it is clear that this soup de jour is a favorite on many industry and non-industry menus.

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“…density of the granularity…”

Huh?
What did he just say?

It’s been a day of more acronym soup – this time, however, the same acronyms mean something completely different than what they meant in my previous role.

*sigh*
Just when I thought I knew something.

I was already well past information overload, when the discussion of medDRA, data mining, and SMQs began. Aside from the fact that I couldn’t see past the instructor to visual the slides, my brain was mush. I didn’t bother to ask him to move. I felt too much like Charlie Brown trying to make sense of “waah wah wah, wah wah wah waah.” I was doing a poor job.

Don’t get me wrong; this course is good. I am learning a lot. I just hope that I can absorb the knowledge before it goes out the other ear. There really is so many facts to know. What is worse, is the fact that today was just the overview. Tomorrow, we will delve into the nitty gritty of Global Pharmacovigilance.

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