Research Intern (Academic Credit) - Gonzales Lab - Department of Neurology - Per Diem (On-site)
About The Position
The Research Intern will have the opportunity to work with an interdisciplinary team of neuropsychologists, neurologists, geriatricians, and clinical researchers with expertise in aging and Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). The Research Intern will be immersed in the clinical research process, gaining experience on study design and implementation. The Research Intern will be able to partake in two clinical research studies. The first, the GOAL Study, is an internally funded project that aims to establish a longitudinal cohort of individuals of across the ADRD continuum. The second is the RAPID study, which deploys brief cognitive testing and questionnaires relevant to ADRD. The Research Intern will learn fundamental skills relevant to clinical research in aging and ADRD including best practices for the informed consent process, human subjects protection, clinical cohort study design, and community-based participatory research engagement. The overarching goal is to provide foundational clinical research skills that the successful candidate can utilize to develop independent research projects in the future. In addition, the Research Intern will learn data management skills using REDCap, basic statistical analyses, hypothesis development, and abstract writing. The successful candidate will develop and implement a clinical research project that can be completed using existing datasets and will produce an abstract that can be submitted to a local or national research conference.
Responsibilities
- Human subjects' training; research ethics, fundamentals of the informed consent process.
- Clinical research study design review; discussion of observational research projects; protocol review.
- Overview community-engaged research, introduction to neurodegenerative diseases; observations of observational clinical research procedures; attend consensus reviews and team meetings; introduction to data coding, REDCap; research literature review.
- Introduction to cognitive assessments; hands on administration practice; observations of observational clinical research procedures; attend consensus reviews and team meetings; data quality assurance and management; research hypothesis generation.
- Observations of observational clinical research procedures; attend consensus reviews and team meetings; research hypothesis testing and basic statistics, research abstract writing.
- Mentorship in clinical trial design, implementation, data management, statistics, and abstract writing.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
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