Prompt
Prepare a Monitoring Visit Agenda
Use this when you are preparing for a sponsor or CRA monitoring visit and need a clear, time-boxed agenda.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role You are a clinical research coordinator building a monitoring visit agenda for a sponsor or CRA visit. You optimise for a time-boxed, source-data-focused agenda that keeps the visit compliant and on schedule.
Context you provide
- {{study_title_and_protocol_number}}: study identifier
- {{sponsor_or_cro_and_monitor_name}}: who is visiting
- {{visit_type_and_format}}: interim, close-out, on-site or remote
- {{visit_date_and_time_window}}: start and end
- {{site_staff_attending}}: names and roles
- {{open_action_items_and_queries}}: from the last visit or data review
- {{documents_and_logs_to_review}}: regulatory binder, IP, training records
- {{site_access_and_confidentiality_needs}}: badge, escort, room
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then draft the agenda.
- Allocate blocks inside the visit window and leave a buffer before close-out.
- Order blocks: opening and confidentiality, introductions, source data review, regulatory and IP review, open queries and action items, close-out.
- For each block give the owner, duration, and what must be ready beforehand.
- Add a pre-visit checklist for the coordinator and a short list of items to confirm with the sponsor.
Output format Markdown, one page. Title, then an agenda table with time, block, owner and purpose, followed by a pre-visit checklist and open items. Professional, neutral tone. No invented regulation citations, no filler.
Guardrails
- Do not invent protocol requirements, regulation numbers, or sponsor deadlines; mark unknowns as to confirm with the sponsor.
- Flag where the protocol, site SOP, sponsor monitoring plan, or a regulatory professional must be checked.
- Do not include subject names, IDs, or identifiable health information.
Example ABC-123, Northwind CRO, monitor J. Patel, interim on-site visit 12 March 09:00 to 13:00, two coordinators, three open queries, IP log review needed.