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Hello all,
I am about to graduate undergrad and have just received my first job offer- it's a research coordinator job. I am 100% applying to clinical psych PhD programs in 2 years. Here's what I would be doing in this job. I would love your input- will this job look good for grad schools in terms of research experience? If not, why not and what should I be looking for?
Research Coordinator
Topics: Veterans, PTSD, traumatic brain injury, neuropsych testing.
Duties:
*MULTIPLE opportunities to be part of publications, poster presentations, chapters, etc. I know this is very very very important. BUT...
*PREDOMINANTLY administrative work
*Will be first go-to person for the PI
*Will act as a supervisor to the other RAs. I will teach them to administer neuropsych tests (I have had fair amount of experience in neuropsych testing).
*Scoring and rescoring neuropsych assessments
*Some but not extensive chances to actually administer assessments
*Maintaining study binders
*Dealing with IRB
*Writing up scoring guide, revising operations manuals
Please let me know what you think. I wanna do everything as perfectly as I can to make sure I can get into grad schools in two years. Does this work sound too administrative? I mean I know that's a lot of what research is but I need some opinions.
THANKS SO MUCH!!!
I am about to graduate undergrad and have just received my first job offer- it's a research coordinator job. I am 100% applying to clinical psych PhD programs in 2 years. Here's what I would be doing in this job. I would love your input- will this job look good for grad schools in terms of research experience? If not, why not and what should I be looking for?
Research Coordinator
Topics: Veterans, PTSD, traumatic brain injury, neuropsych testing.
Duties:
*MULTIPLE opportunities to be part of publications, poster presentations, chapters, etc. I know this is very very very important. BUT...
*PREDOMINANTLY administrative work
*Will be first go-to person for the PI
*Will act as a supervisor to the other RAs. I will teach them to administer neuropsych tests (I have had fair amount of experience in neuropsych testing).
*Scoring and rescoring neuropsych assessments
*Some but not extensive chances to actually administer assessments
*Maintaining study binders
*Dealing with IRB
*Writing up scoring guide, revising operations manuals
Please let me know what you think. I wanna do everything as perfectly as I can to make sure I can get into grad schools in two years. Does this work sound too administrative? I mean I know that's a lot of what research is but I need some opinions.
THANKS SO MUCH!!!