Non-Student Short-Term Casual

Position Summary

Our outreach grant for the Columbia Injury Center has an aim to conduct scoping reviews of the literature. To accomplish this, we will use Covidence, Prisma guidelines, screen the literature using Covidence best practices, identify articles that pass the screen, and use a tested data extraction tool to extract the data. We will then draft reports and a manuscript to report the findings.

The short term casual will work with Dr. Pressley to identify literature, assist with the conduct of Covidence screening, and other activities essential to production of a scoping review. Current scoping reviews are aimed at identified road safety issues. The casual worker will conduct literature searches, screen, articles, use the data extraction tool, conduct quality checks, run summary analyses, prepare tables and figures, assist with report writing, review of draft documents, and reviews and other duties as necessary to support project activities through to publication.

Responsibilities

• Assist with scoping literature protocol development, 5%
• Conduct literature searches in multiple data bases, 15%
• Assist with screening of literature using software package, Covidence, 25%
• Assist with data extraction from the literature, 30%
• Assist with data analysis, summarizing findings producing tables and figures, and report writing 15%
• Assist with manuscript preparation and submission, 5%
• Other duties as assigned 5%

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor?s degree

Preferred Qualifications

Master?s level quantitative and detail-oriented student. Coursework in public health, biostatistics, epidemiology and/or a related field is desired. Experience using Microsoft office, conducting literature reviews, data analysis, report writing, data recoding, and use of a reference software such as Zotero, is desired.