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Catholic Health · 1 month ago

CSP Digital Design

United States

Full-time

Remote

New Grad

$25/hr - $25/hr

Catholic Health is a leading healthcare provider, and they are seeking candidates for the Kornheiser Clinical Scholar Program at St. Francis Hospital. This one-year intensive research experience focuses on biomedical research and clinical mentorship, providing scholars with hands-on involvement in clinical and research projects under the guidance of experienced professionals.

Health Care

Responsibilities

Research coordination, in-depth training in research protocol development, screening and consenting subjects, interviewing subjects for various protocols, and collecting data into a database

Training in the interpretation and dissemination of scientific data and results to a wide audience through journal-club discussions

High level training in didactic and discussion formats in biostatistics and epidemiology including:

Collection, manipulation, and cleaning of research data

Primary biostatistics tests utilized in clinical research

Performing literature reviews, understanding dynamics of disease transmission, measures of morbidity and mortality

Observational and experimental study designs and implementation including: cross-sectional, case-control, cohort, and ecological studies as well as randomized clinical trials, meta-analysis, and big data/artificial intelligence

Analysis and prevention of bias and error in clinical research, techniques in causal inference

Hands-on involvement in initial development of at least 2 novel projects from conception including the development of research protocols, literature review, creation of data collection/consent forms, involvement with internal review board (IRB) approval, as well as consenting and following patients through the projects

Additional hands-on experience in other projects at various stages to provide experience as a research coordinator consenting patients and collecting study variables, as an analyst cleaning and analyzing data and producing a final project suitable for presentation at a major scientific meeting or submitted for publication in a scientific journal

Provide basics of coronary artery atherosclerosis, cardiac structure and function, overview of indications and pathology, assessing ischemia, assessing for amyloid, introduction to ECG, and arrhythmias device indications and management

Learn equipment, fundamentals, anatomy, scanning techniques, contrast agents, plane manipulation, hemodynamics in Cardiac Imaging-CT, MRI, Echocardiography, Nuclear PET

Catheterization lab, coronary anatomy, imaging, OCT, IVUS, iFR measurements in Interventional Cardiology

TAVR, Mitraclip, Watchman procedures in Structural Cardiology

CABG, Valvular heart surgery in Cardiac Surgery

Patient care and interventions in Heart Failure

Experience in specialties including, electrophysiology, neurology, neurosurgery, oncology, renal, internal medicine, and working with hospitalists