RESEARCH ASST I

Michigan Medicine is hiring a Research Assistant I to support a prospective mixed methods research study. The role involves patient recruitment, survey distribution and interviews, clinical data collection and management, transcript coding, and data entry.

Responsibilities

• In this role, your responsibilities include supporting the prospective mixed methods research process through patient recruitment, survey distribution, and patient interviews. Much of your time will be spent onsite at Kellogg Eye Center, where you will be involved in collecting, organizing, and managing research data, including abstracting relevant information from the electronic medical record and entering data into a REDCap database. Additionally, your duties include coding interview transcripts and assisting with data organization to support study goals. Through these tasks, you will gain hands-on experience with clinical research methods, patient-centered research, and the overall process of conducting prospective mixed methods research

Preferred

• MPH graduate, MSW graduate or gap year medical student with an interest in clinical, patient-centered, social work or prospective mixed methods research
• Familiarity with qualitative coding, transcript review, or data abstraction
• Prior experience with manuscript writing and preparation is preferred
• Familiarity with literature reviews, drafting research sections, editing, formatting references, or preparing materials for submission
• Detail-oriented
• Organized
• Comfortable working with REDCap, patient data, and various survey tools
• Strong communication skills - particularly for patient recruitment, interviewing, and collaborating with the research team
• Clinical research experience and/or familiarity is extremely helpful when applying for this role
• Qualitative coding
• Transcript review
• Data abstraction
• Manuscript writing
• Manuscript preparation
• Literature reviews
• Research section drafting
• Reference formatting
• Submission preparation
• REDCap
• Patient data handling
• Survey tools
• Interviewing
• Mixed-methods research
• Patient-centered research
• Social work research
• Communication
• Collaboration

Company

• Academic medical center and health care system
• Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
• http://www.uofmhealth.org/
• Founded in 1850
• 10001+ employees

Qualifications

• Confered Bachlor?s degree
• Experience working with electronic health records (EHR) to include reviewing patient charts
• Abstracting relevant clinical data from EHR while maintaining accuracy and confidentiality
• Clinical research experience including recruiting patients
• MPH graduate, MSW graduate or gap year medical student with an interest in clinical, patient-centered, social work or prospective mixed methods research
• Familiarity with qualitative coding, transcript review, or data abstraction
• Prior experience with manuscript writing and preparation is preferred
• Familiarity with literature reviews, drafting research sections, editing, formatting references, or preparing materials for submission
• Detail-oriented
• Organized
• Comfortable working with REDCap, patient data, and various survey tools
• Strong communication skills - particularly for patient recruitment, interviewing, and collaborating with the research team
• Clinical research experience and/or familiarity is extremely helpful when applying for this role

Required skills

• Clinical Research, Mixed Methods Research, Patient Interviewing, Patient Recruitment, Qualitative Coding, REDCap

Preferred skills

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Experience

• Entry level