Position: Inova Health is seeking an Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery Research Fellow / Research Project Associate.
This is a full-time paid position with benefits.
June 2025-2026 (start date flexible) Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Falls Church, VA
Extremely competitive salary with benefits
- Seeking current US medical students interested in an orthopaedic surgery research fellowship to enhance their orthopaedic surgery residency application.
- Highly motivated applicants that work well in a team environment with an interest in orthopaedic surgery as a future career are encouraged to apply.
Team
- Collaborate on a team with 2 other clinical research coordinators
- Work directly with Greg Gaski MD, 6 additional surgeon investigators and service line research director PhD
- 5 physician assistants/nurse practitioners
- 6 orthopaedic surgery residents (Georgetown and Walter Reed)
- Undergraduate and medical student volunteers
Responsibilities
- Assist clinical research coordinators with prospective funded studies. This includes data collection, data entry, conduct patient interviews, physical exams, follow-up visits, enrollment, and consenting
- Daily participation in team clinical rounds for patient screening
- Assistance with statistical analyses (optional)
- Travel to Orthopaedic Trauma Association annual meeting
- Coordinate financial aspects of clinical trial implementation through study closure
- Provide regulatory, IRB, and budgetary guidance and support to coordinators and investigators
- Assist with grant writing
- Work directly with the Office of Research at Inova: Grants management office, IRB, contracts, billing compliance
- Scientific collaboration with numerous nationally renowned trauma centers and study sponsors
- Assistance with surgeon-investigator initiated retrospective studies including design and analysis
Opportunities
- Author/contribute to abstracts and manuscripts
- Typically, we submit 10-12 abstracts annually to the Orthopaedic Trauma Association annual meeting and the Virginia Orthopaedic Society annual meeting
- Our research infrastructure can support high research output (publications, presentations) depending on student goals and interests
- Research mentorship experience from PhD-level research analysts
- Operating Room observation and clinic shadowing opportunities available (3-5 operating rooms daily)
- Attend attending lectures, monthly journal clubs, morbidity conference and other academic offerings (all optional)
To apply: email CV to
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