Pros
DCRI is a part of the prestigious Duke name and is organizationally embraced by the esteem of Duke's well known School of Medicine. Great sick and vacation time benefits.
Cons
Racism is persistent at DCRI - so much so that it will make you wonder if this is unique to being in the South and working at Duke or is this really just indicative of the white dominated research industry, as a whole, is all about. Black people are promoted at a much lower rate than their white counterparts and often times hired at lower levels, making it many years the more harder to get to a certain level or reach a level III position in their job title. Management is allowed to lie in "counseling notes" (these are DCRI punitive write ups) to further keep blacks, and anyone else deemed to be less than, below and under any sort of a progressive career track. Managers are hired because they are friends of someone first, and not because of skill and competency. Physicians at DCRI can do pretty much anything they want, even if it means handicapping a trial's success and undercutting clinical operations staff responsible for certain tasks on a project that the physicians are not responsible for.