Research Assistant Position @ South County Psychiatry, North Kingstown RI

The Rhode Island Methods to Improve Diagnostic Assessment and Services (MIDAS) project is looking to hire two to three research assistants (RAs), with a potential start date of May/June 2025. Candidates should be recent or upcoming college graduates with a psychology or neuroscience degree and an interest in going to graduate or medical school.

Job Descriptions:

The RAs will be trained in conducting diagnostic interviews and writing clinical reports. The RAs will also be responsible for managing databases and entering data, submitting IRB applications, recruiting participants, and conductingother tasks associated with various ongoing assessment and treatment research projects inoutpatient and intensive outpatient practices. Opportunities are available (and encouraged) forpresenting research at national conferences and writing manuscripts for publication. Priorresearch assistants have published papers as first authors and have had a 100% success rate at getting into top level graduate and medical schools.

Responsibilities:

• Performing Structured Clinical Interviews for DSM Disorder (SCID) diagnostic interviews.
• Administering psychiatric measures to psychiatric outpatients (e.g., Hamilton Depression Rating Scale).
• Writing psychiatric clinical reports.
• Conducting various research-related tasks including entering data, data cleaning, participant recruitment, etc.
• Conducting independent research projects using available data.
• Training incoming research assistants on study procedures.

Qualifications:

Minimum

• Bachelor's degree in Psychology or Neuroscience   

Preferred 

• A history of relevant coursework (e.g., abnormal psychology).
• A strong academic record.
• Prior research experience in psychology or related fields.
• Experience with data analysis programs (e.g., SPSS, R studio).
• Strong formal/research-oriented writing skills.
• An interest in pursuing a graduate education in psychology or medicine.

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