UNIV - Program Assistant - Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation - Department of Orthopaedics

Job Description Summary

The Department of Orthopaedics and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is seeking a candidate to assist the physical medicine and rehabilitation team (physician investigators and research coordinators) in recruiting research participants, collecting research data, performing data entry, and supporting organizational tasks for studies conducted in the Department of Orthopaedics and PM&R. The research assistant will be directly involved in collecting questionnaires, interviews, laboratory and other research data.

This position requires exercising best practices in patient management, providing timely and accurate reports from research databases to PIs and research staff, and supporting the research investigators, faculty, trainee physicians and program coordinator/manager.

• 35% – Assist PI in ambulatory clinics by administering questionnaires and consents to patients; collect data needed for the study per protocol; provide information to study participants and answer study‑related questions during their appointment.
• 25% – Contact study participants by phone or letter to schedule follow‑up visits post‑surgery for shoulder, knee, spine and hip studies; conduct outcome study survey data collection by calling participants and asking outcome questions for long‑term follow‑up studies; utilize Excel to maintain enrollment logs and follow‑up logs.
• 20% – Collect, compile, and input study data for participants into specified databases; manage study data and prepare reports as deemed necessary by study PIs and Research Coordinator.
• 15% – Travel with Research Coordinator, when applicable, to clinic sites and provide assistance with participant recruitment and data collection for research studies.
• 5% – Other duties as assigned.

• Strong organizational skills
• Excel and other Microsoft programs
• Data entry experience
• Patient care experience
• High school diploma and two years relevant program experience; a bachelor’s degree may be substituted for the required program experience.

High school diploma and two years relevant program experience; a bachelor’s degree may be substituted for the required program experience.

Ability to perform job functions in an upright position. Ability to perform job functions in a seated position. Ability to perform job functions while walking/mobile. Ability to work indoors. Ability to work outdoors in all weather and temperature extremes. Ability to work in confined/cramped spaces. Ability to perform job functions from kneeling positions. Ability to squat and perform job functions. Ability to perform 'pinching' operations.

Ability to fully use both hands/arms. Ability to perform repetitive motions with hands/wrists/elbows and shoulders. Ability to reach in all directions. Possess good finger dexterity. Ability to maintain tactile sensory functions. Ability to lift and carry 15 lbs., unassisted. Ability to lift objects, up to 15 lbs., from floor level to height of 36 inches, unassisted. Ability to lower objects, up to 15 lbs.,

from height of 36 inches to floor level, unassisted. Ability to push/pull objects, up to 15 lbs., unassisted. Ability to maintain 20/40 vision, corrected, in one eye or with both eyes. Ability to see and recognize objects close lity to see and recognize objects at a distance. Ability to determine distance/relationship between objects; depth perception. Good peripheral vision capabilities. Ability to maintain hearing acuity, with correction.

Ability to hear and/or understand whispered conversations at a distance of 3 feet. Ability to perform gross motor functions with frequent fine motor movements. Ability to work in dusty areas.

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