The Institut d’Investigació en Atenció Primària Jordi Gol i Gurina is looking to cover a Ph.D. position for the Grenssap Group (led by Dra. Concepció Violán). This is a multidisciplinary team formed by medical doctors, nurses, statisticians, pharmacist, psychologist- and junior researchers. The main research lines of the group are (1) Evaluation of the use of Primary Care services, programs and interventions; (2) Evaluation of drug use; (3) Community interventions to reduce the effect of health issues; (4) Health Services Research: classification of multimorbidity patterns, implications of multimorbidity for the health services, validation and improvement of current information systems in PC and validation of questionnaires.

 

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Essential Selection Criteria:

·       Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics or Mathematics.

·       Experience in data management and statistical analysis.

·       Good understanding of the English language.

 

Responsibilities:

·       Management of big databases.

·       Statistical and methodological assessment of projects: design, sample size calculation, analysis plan, data analysis and presentation of results.

·       Database creation, cleaning and restructuring. Quality control and validation of data.

 

Desirable Selection Criteria:

·       Experience in research projects using electronic health records databases.

·       Participation in research projects within the health sciences, particularly regarding the design and analysis of cohort and case-control studies.

·       Experience in the development of analytical projects: design and plan of analysis, data capture and preparation, statistical analysis, validation and presentation of results, sample size calculation for complex samples.

·       Expertise in statistical programmes and data analyses: SPSS, Stata, R and/or other programmes.

·       Experience in the management and cleaning of databases (packages in R plyr, bash programming

of Linux, Python).

·       Experience in primary care research.

·       Knowledge of the Catalan language.

·       Knowledge of the Spanish language.

·       Ability to contribute to the team and active participation in discussions. Open to acquire new skills and knowledge.

·       Problem-solving skills, self-sufficient.

·       Dynamic, active involvement in the projects, innovative. Easily adaptable to different working conditions and technologies.

·       Based on the characteristics and academic merits of the candidate, he/she will be able to enter a PhD program.