Program Position: Orthopaedic Surgery Year Long Jr Research Associate (full-time paid position)
Duration: 1 year (approximately May 2025-May 2026)
Start Date: May 2025 (flexible)
Compensation: Salary included
Location: University of Utah Orthopaedic Center, Salt Lake City, UT.
Contact: Brenna Blackburn, brenna.blackburn@hsc.utah.edu
Goals/Opportunities of the Fellowship
- Past opportunities have included 15+ peer reviewed publications/book chapters/conference presentations with first author opportunities directly related to contribution
- Orthopaedic mentorship (including Letters of Recommendation) to support you in the match
- Attend orthopaedic grand rounds, subspecialty conferences, journal clubs and resident conferences to help improve your overall knowledge in the specialty
- Ample opportunities to enhance CV for medical school/residency program applications
- Gain important experience while observing surgical procedures and/or spend time in clinical and basic science orthopaedic research to help strengthen a potential academic career
- Be able to read and critically analyze medical literature
- Be comfortable with data collection, scientific writing, and submission of manuscript
Requirements
- MS3 or MS4 students with a strong interest in orthopaedic research and a planned career in orthopaedic surgery and academic medicine
- A desire to match competitively in Orthopaedic Surgery, unmatched applicants welcomed to apply
- Prior research experience and strong statistical experience preferred
- Organizational and time management skills
- Grit and outstanding work ethic
- Able to work well in a team setting
- Ability to work independently and complete tasks in an efficient manner
- The successful applicant will also be motivated, energetic, intellectually curious, diverse in experiences of community service and leadership.
- US applicants only (no Visa sponsor)
Responsibilities
- Serve as a team leader to spearhead research projects and ensure throughput by all team members
- Designing research hypotheses and performing literature reviews
- Manage multiple research projects and organize and maintain all aspects of ongoing projects
- Organize and present project updates at weekly research meetings with a team of research faculty, fellows, residents, statisticians, and research coordinators
- Lead studies with fellows, residents, and medical students
- Collecting patient-reported outcome data, data analysis, manuscript drafting and editing, grant drafting, manuscript submission
- Preparation of research and conference PowerPoint Presentations, Website Educational Material
- Aid in management of prospective clinical trials
- Assist research coordinators with patient screening and enrollment for prospective studies
- Submit protocols to the IRB for research fellow driven projects with the help of the research coordinators
Please reach out Brenna Blackburn, brenna.blackburn@hsc.utah.edu, with your CV if you are interested.
