Clinical Research Assistant

About the Department

The Office of Clinical Research (OCR) is the nucleus of the clinical research enterprise, providing services, training, tools and compliance oversight to support the conduct of clinical research across the entire Biological Sciences Division and University of Chicago Medicine human subject research portfolio. The mission of the Office of Clinical Research is to catalyze clinical research by providing expertise, resources, infrastructure, and systems that facilitate clinical research operations and enable collaboration across the enterprise while promoting compliance and human subject protection on behalf of our diverse community of patients and volunteers.

Responsibilities

• Research tasks include recruitment, screening for eligibility, consenting participants, conducting research assessments, data entry, and subject follow-up and scheduling.
• Performs specific protocol procedures (specimens and data management, survey/questionnaire administration and the like) required to conduct the study and retain research subjects.
• Understands protocols and may collect information about adverse events (AEs), identified in the protocol or investigator brochure.
• Participates in study-related documentation, such as protocol worksheets, procedural manuals, adverse event reports, institutional review board documents, or progress reports.
• May perform data abstraction and entry for retrospective chart review studies.
• Meets with the study PI on a regular basis to discuss study updates.
• Performs all tasks in basic clinical studies.
• Acquires and applies knowledge of clinical studies to collect analyzable clinical research data and/or samples.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Requirements

• Minimum requirements include vocational training, apprenticeships or the equivalent experience in related field (not typically required to have a four-year degree).
• Knowledge and skills developed through < 2 years of work experience in a related job discipline.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 2 years of work or volunteer experience in a health care related setting.

Skills

• Strong organizational skills.
• Excellent skills interacting with members of the public in a health care setting.
• Self-directed learner.

Benefits

• Benefits Eligible Yes.