YANA Sim Lab is a flight simulator for clinical research. Run real CRC and CRA scenarios — informed consent, monitoring visits, SDV, AE reporting — before your first day on the job. Walk into interviews with scored, verifiable proof you can do the work. 24 simulation tracks. 312+ verified professionals. AI-graded, human-reviewed, employer-recognized.
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YANA Sim Lab is the AI-graded simulation platform behind 312+ verified clinical research professionals — used by aspiring CRCs, CRA bridges, working monitors, and sponsor/CRO training teams to turn knowledge into scored, audit-ready evidence.
24 scenario tracks · CRC, CRA, senior CRA
ICH-GCP E6(R3) · FDA · EMA · MHRA · NAFDAC aligned
AI grading + human reviewer sign-off
Verifiable YANA Passport with one-link recruiter verify
The YANA Passport — flip to see the verification record
Every reviewed simulation rolls into a verifiable digital workforce credential. Recruiters and employers verify it in one click on verify.yanacareers.com.
Simulation-based readiness record. Not a substitute for background checks, reference checks, or other employer evaluation processes.
Training vs simulation
A certificate proves you finished. A passport helps show you're ready.
Most training programs end at completion. YANA Sim Lab adds a practical readiness layer on top — so professionals walk away with more than a credential, and employers see more than a line on a resume.
Training-only certificate
What a certificate shows
Confirms you completed coursework
Same for everyone who finishes the course
Sits on your resume as a line item
Difficult to verify in seconds
Tells employers what you learned
Often where the journey ends
Simulation-based experience
What Sim Lab adds on top
Shows you practiced role-based scenarios
Reflects how you handled simulated decisions
Generates a digital workforce passport you can share
Verifiable through a shareable link
Helps show what you have practiced and can do
Connects training to interviews, hiring, and growth
Take the pathway assessment and run your first AI-graded simulation in minutes — no credit card required. Or join the interest list for new scenario releases, region packs, and the YANA Passport rollout.
Partner inquiries
Bring Sim Lab into your hiring or training pipeline
CROs, sponsors, site networks, and training providers: deploy Sim Lab as scenario-graded evidence before you make the offer. Co-design scenarios, run cohort mode for multi-participant simulations, and surface readiness through org dashboards and the YANA Passport verification layer.
Sim Lab is the Practice layer of the YANA ecosystem — turning Academy knowledge into AI-graded, human-reviewed evidence that recruiters and sponsors actually trust.
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Learn
Build knowledge in YANA Academy.
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Practice
Run AI-graded simulations in Sim Lab.
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Advance
Manage progression in CareerOS.
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Connect
Get discovered through Talent Network.
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Impact
Earn a verifiable YANA Passport.
Key capabilities
Practice the work. Prove the readiness.
Every Sim Lab capability is designed to produce evidence that downstream products, recruiters, and employers can actually verify — not edutainment, not multiple-choice theater.
24 role-based scenario tracks
CRC, CRA, and senior CRA tracks across monitoring visits, informed consent, SDV, AE reporting, drug accountability, and more — modeled on real Phase II/III studies.
AI-graded, human-reviewed
Real-time AI character dialogue scores every turn. Final readiness is signed off by a YANA human reviewer against ICH-GCP, 21 CFR, EMA, MHRA, and regional regulatory frameworks.
Voice + text simulations
Run consent conversations and monitoring dialogues with voice or text — same scoring rubric, same audit-ready records.
Cohort mode
Multi-participant simulations for site networks and CRO cohorts — run a monitoring visit with a CRA, CRC, and PI in the same scenario.
Regional regulatory packs
FDA, EMA, MHRA, NAFDAC, and WHO-GCP region packs — train and verify against the standards your region actually audits to.
Verifiable YANA Passport
Every reviewed scenario rolls into a digital workforce passport with a verify.yanacareers.com link recruiters confirm in one click.
One platform · Four doors
Built for every stakeholder in clinical research hiring
Whether you're getting hired, doing the hiring, onboarding a team, or proving outcomes — Sim Lab has a door for you.
Candidates — Get hired faster
Build verifiable competency evidence before you have the title. CRC Foundations, CRA Bridge, and specialist tracks.
Two sides of the same broken hiring loop. We fix both.
Clinical research talent is still judged by resumes and keywords. Candidates can't prove what they can do; recruiters can't see past what's written. The result is a market that keeps qualified people out and lets unqualified ones in.
For candidates
You can't prove what you've never been allowed to do.
Catch-22: no experience, no opportunity
Entry roles want experience. Sites won't hire without it. Qualified candidates never get past the resume screen.
Training alone doesn't prove competency
Course certificates show you sat through content. They don't show you can run a visit or document an AE.
Certifications don't prove judgment
Multiple-choice exams can't measure how you handle a deviation, a vulnerable consent, or a missing source document.
YANA gives you a structured place to demonstrate applied competency — before someone gives you the title.
For sites, CROs & sponsors
You can't hire confidently from a resume and a 30-minute call.
Resumes are keyword theater
Recruiters can't tell from a CV who actually runs a clean visit and who memorized the right buzzwords.
Interviews are too short to test competency
30 minutes can't separate a confident talker from someone who'll catch a deviation on day three.
Onboarding mistakes are expensive
Hiring the wrong CRA means lost monitoring cycles, sponsor escalations, and months of remediation.
YANA gives you scenario-graded, standards-mapped evidence — before you make the offer.
Trusted by
Built on the standards employers audit against
ICH-GCP, FDA, EMA, MHRA, ALCOA+, and IAOCR-aligned — every scenario produces audit-ready records and a verifiable competency read-out.
312+
Verified professionals
+47 verified this month — and growing across CRC, CRA Bridge, and sponsor cohorts.
JTF / IAOCR aligned competency framework — scored against the same domains employers audit.
100%
Audit-ready records
Every reviewed scenario produces ALCOA+ and 21 CFR Part 11-aligned records.
1-click
Recruiter verification
Shareable verify.yanacareers.com link — recruiters confirm a Passport in seconds.
24/7
AI Mentor — Dr. Vera
Context-aware guidance always on — get unstuck without leaving the scenario.
What's inside
Every capability the lab ships with — on day one
Sixteen building blocks. One simulation lab. Built to mirror what a CRC, CRA, or sponsor actually has to do.
24 scenario tracks
CRC → Sr. CRA, all levels
Informed consent reps
21 CFR 50 · ICH E6 (R3)
Monitoring visits
Site selection → close-out
SDV mode
Discrepancy + query workflows
Voice + text
Real-time AI character dialogue
Cohort mode
Multi-participant simulations
Regional regs
NAFDAC · FDA · MHRA · EMA
14-domain rubric
JTF / IAOCR aligned
Adaptive difficulty
Targets your weakest domains
CRA Readiness Score
0–100, employer-mapped
YANA Passport
One-link recruiter verify
Org dashboards
Training-manager reports
Bridge Track
8-scenario CRC → CRA pathway
Mock FDA Audit
High-stakes inspection prep
AI Mentor — Dr. Vera
Context guidance, always on
Daily challenges
Streaks, badges, skill sprints
Credential
What YANA Verified™ actually means
YANA Verified™ means a candidate completed YANA's reviewed simulation pathway and demonstrated applied competency through standards-mapped clinical research simulations — scored by AI and signed off by a human reviewer against ICH-GCP, 21 CFR, EMA, MHRA, and regional regulatory frameworks.
CRC Entry-Ready
Scenario-graded readiness for first-time clinical research coordinators.
CRA Bridge
8-scenario CRC → CRA pathway with monitoring, SDV, and independent decision-making.
SDV Specialist
Source data verification proficiency with planted-discrepancy detection scoring.
YANA Verified™ does not replace employer training, sponsor training, site SOP training, regulatory/legal review, or employment experience.
Digital Workforce Passport
From completed simulations to a shareable readiness signal
The YANA digital workforce passport is issued through Sim Lab after eligible simulation activities are completed. It summarizes the exercises you completed and the readiness areas you practiced — and recruiters and employers can review it through a shareable verification link.
STEP 01
Complete training or learning pathway
Build the foundational knowledge through YANA Academy or an equivalent training pathway.
STEP 02
Enter YANA Sim Lab
Move from theory into a structured practice environment built for role-based scenarios.
STEP 03
Complete role-based simulation exercises
Work through realistic scenarios designed to mirror real clinical research and life sciences workflows.
STEP 04
Demonstrate practical readiness
Each exercise captures evidence of how you approached the work and the readiness areas you practiced.
STEP 05
Receive digital workforce passport
Eligible completions issue a digital workforce passport summarizing your simulation-based preparation.
STEP 06
Share verification link with recruiters or employers
Hand off a shareable link so hiring teams can review your readiness signals during the job search.
DisclaimerThe YANA digital workforce passport reflects simulation-based activities completed within YANA Sim Lab. It is intended to support readiness communication and does not guarantee employment, replace professional licensure, or represent employer acceptance unless otherwise stated by a specific employer or partner.
Status
Now in live beta — free to start
Sim Lab is live at sim.yanacareers.com with 312+ verified professionals and 24 scenario tracks. The pathway assessment and first simulation are free. Upgrade only when you're ready.
Audience
Aspiring CRCs, CRA bridges, sponsors, and training partners
Built for people who already know the theory and want to prove they can do the work — and the employers that need to see that proof.
Core value
Practice that produces a verifiable workforce Passport
Every scenario contributes to a Passport recruiters, CROs, and sponsors verify through a single shareable link.
Positioning
Workforce simulation — not edutainment
Serious workforce infrastructure for clinical research employers, training providers, and accredited workforce programs.
Sim Lab FAQ
Answers for candidates and hiring teams
YANA Sim Lab is a simulation-based workforce readiness platform. Professionals complete realistic, role-based exercises modeled on clinical research and life sciences workflows. Eligible completions issue a digital workforce passport that summarizes the simulation activities completed and the readiness areas practiced.
No. The digital workforce passport is a record of simulation-based preparation — not paid work experience. It is designed to help candidates show practical readiness signals beyond a certificate, and to help recruiters and employers review what a candidate has practiced when reviewing applications.
A certificate confirms you completed a course. A digital workforce passport reflects how you worked through structured simulation exercises and the readiness areas you practiced. It is shareable through a verification link so recruiters and employers can review it in seconds rather than relying on a resume line.
Sim Lab does not guarantee employment. It is designed to help close the experience gap by giving you a structured way to practice real workflows and generate a shareable readiness signal you can reference in applications, interviews, and networking conversations.
Employers and recruiters can open a candidate's shareable verification link to review which simulation activities the candidate completed and which readiness areas they practiced. It is an additional readiness signal that can support — not replace — interviews, references, and hiring decisions.
Sim Lab is designed for exactly this trust gap. Resumes and cover letters increasingly look the same. The passport gives hiring teams a structured view of simulation-based preparation that is harder to fabricate than a resume line, so screening, interview prep, and pipeline development can lean on stronger readiness signals.
It helps to come in with foundational knowledge — either from YANA Academy or an equivalent training pathway — so simulations focus on practice rather than first-time learning. Sim Lab is the practice layer that turns training into a readiness signal.
YANA Sim Lab is currently in Beta. New scenarios, role packs, and features are rolling out continuously. Professionals can practice today and join the early access list for upcoming releases.
Yes. Sponsors, CROs, sites, healthcare organizations, and workforce partners can work with YANA to co-design scenarios that mirror their real workflows, build talent pipelines, and use simulation-based readiness as part of internal workforce development programs.
Stop waiting for someone to give you experience
Take the free pathway assessment and start building verifiable evidence of your clinical research competency today.
