Postgraduate Clinical Systems Fellowship - Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence

The Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence (EACE) is offering a postgraduate fellowship. This clinical systems fellowship is an outstanding training opportunity and will be located at the Defense Health Headquarters, Falls Church VA, and Walter Reed Hospital.

As an ORISE participant, you will be a part of a network of ORISE fellows conducting life-changing research across the Nation with EACE. You will be provided a hands-on, collaborative experience to take an early-stage project from initiation to analysis to a fielded system in a short period of time. The knowledge gained will provide you a highly desired skill-set in the area of clinical systems analysis.

Under the guidance of multiple mentors, you will have the opportunity to advance your proficiency and skill as you learn how to develop and integrate clinician-based patient and provider system requirements into a novel system for tracking clinical outcomes. The system is referred to as the Clinical Assessment Management Portal "CAMP". Understanding clinical systems enables you to play a key role in identifying the systems requirements for a healthcare operation and support decisions regarding future growth and efficiency. In addition, it enables you to make recommendations on designing applications for patient assessment, develop functional requirements, and focus on how best to meet clinical goals.

Analytical skills, communication skills, and creativity are all skills you will learn during this opportunity. This clinical data project (CAMP) database requires ongoing development, system design, and implementation. You will collaborate with clinicians led by a primary mentor to gain consensus prior to engaging the CAMP development team to build the system. The CAMP is now in it's third year of development. As the selected candidate, your goal will be to demonstrate completeness, accuracy, and functionality of each outcome metric as it is incorporated into the on-line database portal. Additionally, you will design customized graphic user interfaces supporting the CAMP staff with the development and implementation of reports required at multiple levels of leadership (clinic, facility, enterprise). 

Falls Church, Virginia

EACE is ready to make appointments immediately. Exact start dates will be determined at the time of selection and in coordination with the selected candidate. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis and fellowships will be filled as qualified candidates are identified.

This appointment is a 12-month research appointment, with the possibility to be renewed for additional research periods. Appointments may be extended depending on funding availability, project assignment, program rules, and availability of the participant.

You will receive a stipend to be determined by EACE. Stipends are typically based on a participant’s academic standing, discipline, experience, and research facility location. Other benefits may include the following:

The qualified candidate will have a bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. in health care informatics, data science, graphic design, information technology, health care administration or related field. Also, physical therapy, occupational therapy or other allied science or medical health care degrees are acceptable. Degree must have been received within five years of the appointment start date. U.S. military veterans who have been honorably discharged (or who have been medically discharged because of a service-connected disability) and who received their degree within ten years of the desired start date are also eligible.

Highly competitive applicants will have education and/or experience in one or more of the following:

Are able to obtain a Secret security clearance. If selected, you will be subject to a government security clearance investigation and must meet the requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility requirements include U.S. citizenship.

The DoD and VA Extremity Trauma & Amputation Center of Excellence (EACE) consists of teams embedded at the point of care within multiple world renown Military Treatment Facilities across the nation, i.e. Walter Reed. In-line with the congressionally directed mission of the EACE, our clinical team focuses on development of clinical outcomes assessment, clinical practice guidelines, and treatment protocols. We are developing a novel system for extremity trauma outcome measures tracking. We focus on traumatic extremity injuries and amputations with a specific focus on tracking outcomes for clinical assessment to improve the care of injured Service members and Veterans.

 

This program, administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) through its contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to manage the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), was established through an interagency agreement between DOE and DoD. Participants do not enter into an employee/employer relationship with ORISE, ORAU, DoD or any other office or agency. Instead, you will be affiliated with ORISE for the administration of the appointment through the ORISE appointment letter and Terms of Appointment. Proof of health insurance is required for participation in this program. Health insurance can be obtained through ORISE. For more information, visit the ORISE Research Participation Program at the U.S. Department of Defense.