I work as a Clinical Research Assistant in Pediatric Cardiology at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. I am actually an employee of Medical College of Wisconsin, which is right next door to the hospital. I have been in this position for two years and am heading off to med school in the fall, so I am trying to help look for a replacement.
My main job responsibility is working on an NIH-funded multi-center trial that is looking at two surgical options for infants born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. The patients get 4 echocardiograms as part of the study. The doctor I work for is the director of the Echocardiogram Core Laboratory for the study, so we receive all of the echos for the trial to analyze them and collect data.
Outside of this one study, I am also able to see and do a lot of other things in this job. I get to attend fellow lectures and surgical presentation conferences. I have also worked on numerous other research projects going on here in our department. I am actually presenting at a national meeting in June, and I haven't even started med school yet! I have also been able to get clinical exposure, which is something I didn't have a lot of before starting at this job.
Feel free to send me a message if you want more details or if you are interested and want to find out about applying. I am not leaving the position until the end of July, but I know many people may be looking for something to do if they are sure they won't be going to school in the fall so we're looking for people now.
