Tag Archives: surgery

Research Opportunity: Examination of Conflict at Workplaces in Healthcare

Con­tact Name: Sara Kim

Con­tact Email: sarakim[at]uw.edu

Depart­ment: Surgery

Descrip­tion:

The UW Medicine Patient Safety Innovations Program research team is seeking highly motivated undergraduate students to assist on a literature review project.

The main tasks include the following:

  1.  Work with a team of researchers in identifying articles, collecting, and categorizing articles related to conflict in healthcare
  2. Read and code articles based on a formal coding scheme that the team will develop
  3. Assist with analyzing synthesized information from article reviews
  4. Assist the team with manuscript writing
  5. Attend regular team meetings

Require­ments:

An ideal candidate would have the following qualifications:

  1. Excellent interpersonal and communication (both written and oral) skills
  2. Excellent organizational and follow through skills
  3. Ability to read scientific studies and extract targeted information
  4. Attention to detail is an absolute must
  5. Ability to work as a team member

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Research Opportunity: RYGB Mechanisms Animal Lab

Con­tact Name: Nicole Travis

Con­tact Email: sorce[at]uw.edu

Depart­ment: Surgery

Descrip­tion:

The Surgical Outcomes Research Center (SORCE) has outstanding opportunities for undergraduate students to become involved in an ongoing NIH-funded study. Specifically, this study compares the outcomes of different gastric bypass operations, mainly centered on the Roux-en Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) weight loss surgery, and their anti-diabetic effects through porcine models.

Learning Objectives: RYGB interns have access to a variety of learning opportunities in the area of translational research. Specific opportunities and goals are as follows:

  • Learn about research design and methodology, and how daily tasks support the long term objectives of research projects
  • Learn how to conduct research with animal subjects in compliance with ethical standards
  • Become proficient and comfortable handling and caring for porcine research subjects. Specifically, interns will learn to:
  • Accurately monitor vital signs
  • Safely administer select research treatments
  • Effectively maintain central line catheters
  • Perform IV Glucose/Meal Tolerance Tests
  • Assist in surgery (sterile/non-sterile) and necropsy
  • Learn transferable administrative skills within a professional office environment
  • Become familiar with data quality management techniques and approaches. Understand the importance of quality control through accuracy and efficiency, attention to detail, methods of data management, and data security
  • Learn techniques of information management geared to support an ongoing, federally-funded research study 
  • Become generally familiar with relevant work processes at the UW, Department of Surgery, and SORCE

In addition to project-related work, students in the SORCE Undergraduate Internship Program complete two small individual research projects and have the opportunity to interact with senior level research staff and faculty members.  Students enroll in an independent study course for credit (SURG499A).

SORCE (http://depts.washington.edu/sorce) is a multi-disciplinary research center focused on improving surgical outcomes and the quality of patient care on a local, regional, and national level.

To apply, please send a resume and cover letter (stating career aspirations and how SORCE might be a good fit) to Nicole Travis at sorce@uw.edu by Oct. 18th at 5pm.

Require­ments:

Must be able to commit to working a minimum of 6 hours/week per quarter (including summer), including  one shift at UDB per week.  Must be able to make a 1 year commitment to the internship. Must take internship for credit (SURG499). Animal handling experience a plus.

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New Fall Research Opportunities

Every fall we get many new research opportunity postings all the time. Below are the postings from the last week or so. Follow the links for more details. As always, you can browse all postings here.

  • James Lawson, Nonviolent Revolutionary
  • Sharecroppers’ Troubadour: John Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union and the African American song tradition
  • A Novel Process for Water Purification
  • Development of point-of-care diagnostic devices for the developed and developing worlds
  • Effect of requirement for prior insurance clearance on accrual of patients onto clinical trials for acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
  • Closed Ecological Systems–Aquatic
  • Diversity and Teamwork Study
  • Stem cells as drug discovery agents
  • Transplant Surgery
  • Regulation of Macrophage Activation
  • Web-based Adolescent Health Screening and Risk Prevention
  • Medical Tricorder Project
  • Echocardiographic assessment of the structure and function of the normal and abnormal heart
  • Foster Business School Laboratory – 2 Research Assistants Needed
  • Manipulations of host cells by Chlamydia trachomatis
  • Local anesthesia in dentistry; techniques
  • Ultrasound imaging in dentistry
  • Human Immunology of Tuberculosis
  • Marketing/Social Media Research for Computer Experts
  • Sequencing Treatments for Mothers with ADHD and Their At-Risk Children
  • Myogenic stem cells: basic biology and applicability to muscle wasting disorders (muscular dystrophy) and age-associated muscle deterioration (sarcopenia)
  • Maternity, neonatal, Women’s health
  • Human Prostate Cancer Progression, Fred Hutch
  • Zebrafish models of heart and muscle disease
  • Oceanography research cruise
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant in Traumatic Brain Injury Lab
  • Learning in Biology
  • Platelet hyper-reactivity Cross talks between inflammation and hemostatic signals
  • Oral health and disease
  • Molecular Signaling Mechanisms of Heart Disease
  • Controlled fusion research in the HIT program
  • Blood-brain barrier in disease
  • Mouse genetics, cognition and Parkinson’s disease
  • Social Development in Childhood

Research Opportunity: CHASE Alliance/SORCE Survey Center

Con­tact Name: Nicole Travis

Con­tact Email: sorce[at]uw.edu

Depart­ment: Surgery

Descrip­tion:
The Surgical Outcomes Research Center (SORCE) has outstanding opportunities for undergraduate students to become involved in an ongoing project aimed at capturing and incorporating patient-reported outcomes into outcomes assessments for quality improvement (QI) activities and comparative effectiveness research (CER). The Survey Center currently does surveying for multiple projects related to surgical QI and CER. The Survey Center is responsible for complex survey distribution and management across 5-20 sites and 3-5 survey protocols at any given time. Interns working on this project perform daily projects tasks, such as data entry and filing, coordination of mailings, and other tasks or projects as assigned.

Learning objectives:

  1. Become familiar with surgical quality improvement initiatives in the state of Washington
  2. Develop competency for data management of patient outcome questionnaires
  3. Learn about various survey techniques and administration
  4. Perform literature reviews
  5. Build scientific presentation skills
  6. Develop customer service skills
  7. Learn how to handle sensitive information confidentially

In addition to project-related work, students in the SORCE Undergraduate Internship Program complete two small individual research projects and have the opportunity to interact with senior level research staff and faculty members. SORCE Interns are given specific project designations and work independently to meet task deadlines and goals. Upon demonstrated ability, interns may be given long-term projects to manage.

SORCE (http://depts.washington.edu/sorce) is a multi-disciplinary research center focused on improving surgical outcomes and the quality of patient care on a local, regional, and national level.

Require­ments:

Must be able to commit to working 9 hours/week per quarter (including summer). Must be able to make at least a 1 year commitment to the internship. Must take internship for credit (SURG499).

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