Thinking skill: Compare the first evidence question for different products.

Situation: A student writes, “Every health product begins with target selection and then follows the same clinical trial route.” A team is actually considering five products: a new oral medicine; a generic tablet; a proposed biosimilar; a rapid specimen-based test; and software that flags a finding on a medical image.

Your task:

• For each product, write its most useful starting question and two types of evidence or work that may follow.
• Identify which product could begin with target selection and which begin with a reference product or intended medical purpose.
• Explain one common activity shared by all five, and one reason their evidence routes cannot be identical.

Submit: A five-row product map and a 90-word correction to the student’s statement.

Before you submit: Did you distinguish a generic from a biosimilar and a diagnostic test from image-analysis software? Do not prescribe the same trial design to all products.