Intern Aide - Part-time

Work Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Summary The intern/aide will learn about multiple facets of pancreatic cancer - epidemiology, molecular biology, translational research, and clinical trials - while learning, in more general terms, how institutions collaborate towards a common goal. The intern/aide will be managing a database and attending research meetings for a national, multi-institutional consortium of academic institutions dedicated to improving outcomes in pancreatic cancer (the Canopy Cancer Collective).

This is part-time, benefits eligible, 20 hours/week position. Job

Duties Learns about multidisciplinary management of pancreatic cancer. Understands how academic institutions collaborate in translational and clinical research. Learns about the processes involved in conducting clinical research, from inception to IRB approval, execution, and data acquisition/interpretation.

Attends the weekly BCM/DLDCCC multidisciplinary pancreatobiliary tumor board conferences to hear about new patients that will need to be entered into the Canopy registry. Enters new pancreatic cancer patients and their clinical information into the Canopy registry. Attends research meetings (internal and inter-institutional through the Canopy Cancer Collective).

Helps devise research projects, writes protocols, interprets data as they emerge. Performs other job-related duties as assigned. Minimum

Qualifications Must be enrolled in high school, trade/vocational school or higher education institution. Baylor College of Medicine fosters diversity among its students, trainees, faculty, and staff as a prerequisite to accomplishing our institutional mission and setting standards for excellence in training healthcare providers and biomedical scientists, promoting scientific innovation, and providing patient-centered care. Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.