Within the MEDIAN clinic group, the largest private rehabilitation provider in Germany, a full time Early Stage Researcher position is available for a period of 12 months. Join our team to shape the future of rehabilitation. Your role as a researcher will contribute to practical advances and improve patient outcomes.
The position is within the REPAIRS project (RE-learning Perception Action In Rehabilitation from a Systems perspective), a European Training Network (ETN) within the H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovation Training Network programme, funded by the European Union (https://repairs-etn.eu/). See eligibility criteria for this position below; the position is open for applicants from within and outside Europe but there are restrictions for applicants with study and work experience in Germany.
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The aim of the project at MEDIAN is to improve the quality of rehabilitation care by combining data points in a meaningful way, analyzing them with novel techniques and thereby gaining insights into treatment effectiveness.
MEDIAN has collected a large amount of data, including socio-demographic data, indication-specific outcome parameters recorded at the beginning and end of each patient's rehabilitation stay, and data on the type and amount of treatment each patient received. Within this huge data set, there is plenty of room for very different projects. The Early Stage Researcher can choose the area of interest in consultation with the supervisors.
Working environment
MEDIAN is a modern healthcare company with 122 inpatient rehabilitation clinics, therapy centres, outpatient clinics and other care facilities. With around 20,000 beds, treatment places, and more than 15,000 employees, MEDIAN is the largest private operator of rehabilitation facilities in Germany. MEDIAN’s headquarter is in Berlin, where the early-stage researcher will be based.
This project is part of a large European Innovative Training Network (ITN) consortium called REPAIRS, which aims to restore and improve the functional ability and quality of life of people with a disability by combining insights from basic research on how individuals relearn perception and action with state-of-the-art rehabilitation practice. REPAIRS consists of 8 European partners and provides a training programme for 15 early stage researchers working together towards the goal of improving rehabilitation. For a more detailed description of the project and the team, please visit the website:
https://repairs-etn.eu/ - A Master's degree in human movement science, kinesiology, sport and exercise science, rehabilitation science, experimental psychology, life sciences, bioinformatics, statistics, computer science, business informatics or a related field, successfully completed before September 31st 2023.
- A systematic and analytical way of thinking with an interest in exploiting novel data analysis techniques
- Experience of machine learning techniques and R programming skills are an advantage
- Good organisational and communication skills
- Reliable, independent and structured work style, ability to work in a team
- Excellent written and oral presentation skills in English
- German skills are not required but an advantage
Successful candidates must fulfil the criteria defined by the European Commission: - As an Early Stage Researcher, you have to be in the first four years of your research career and have not been awarded a doctoral degree at the time of recruitment.
- At the time of recruitment, researchers must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of their host organisation (Germany) for more than 12 months in the 3 years prior to the start date.
What we offer You will be appointed as an Early Stage Researcher (ESR) for 12 months. Note that the appointed ESR will work full-time and exclusively for the project. MEDIANs offers an excellent environment for hands on research that has direct impact on patients care.
- A varied task at the interface of research, health innovation and clinical practice
- The unique opportunity to advance rehabilitation medicine and contribute with your talent to establish evidence-based and quality-assured therapy
- Supervision and mentoring from experts in their field with an academic, industry and clinical background
- An outstanding opportunity to acquire complementary training in transferable skills (e.g. project planning, presentation techniques, communication and dissemination techniques, Open Science prac