Research Associate/Fellow, Mixed Methods Health Services [LKCMedicine]
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Primary Care and Family Medicine at LKC Medicine is seeking a motivated Research Fellow / Research Associate to play a key role in the development on a new program of work to capture general practice activity and optimise cancer and chronic disease screening and management in primary care. They will contribute to co-design of health services interventions with patients, their carers and primary care health professionals, and to their evaluation in implementation studies.
This is a key role which will build capacity in Primary Care OPEN, our patient and public involvement group, and the pcRn primary care research network.
Key Responsibilities
This is a key role which will build capacity in Primary Care OPEN, our patient and public involvement group, and the pcRn primary care research network.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to design, data collection, analysis and interpretation of quantitative, qualitative and co-design studies
- Project management of program of work, ensuring study deliverables, reports and publications are completed punctually according to study and grant timelines
- Work effectively with OPEN, the Office for Patient Engagement at Le Kong Chian School of Medicine to grow primary care patient panel
- Perform literature searches and scientific writing in the form of grants, manuscripts, reports, reviews, abstracts, posters and oral presentations
- Assist in communications with institutional review board staff regarding ethics applications, amendments, and reports
- Establish and maintain close communication with all stakeholders and study team
- Assist in the supervision of student projects within the program of work.
- Ensure all work processes meet the ethical standards of the University, Singapore Good Clinical Practice Guidelines and other applicable regulatory and ethical requirements
- Assist with any other duties of a similar nature that are delegated by the PI
- PhD (Research Fellow) or Masters (Research Associate) qualification or equivalent in health services research, implementation science or a related discipline (eg medicine, nursing, allied health, psychology, public health, social science, statistics)
- Experience in health services or implementation research, preferably in primary health care setting
- Design of research projects using a range of methods (experience of quantitative and qualitative methods)
- Competent in utilising software packages including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, statistical packages (e.g. Stata), NVivo
- Successful research activity evidenced by:
- Peer reviewed grant income
- Publication in national and international journals
- Presentations at national and international conferences
- Familiarity with primary care setting in Singapore and/or internationally
- Ability to work effectively, both individually, as well as part of a team.
- Strong communication skills in English, both written and spoken
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