Established in 1980, the Greater Lawrence Family Health Center (GLFHC) is a multi-site mission-driven non-profit organization employing over 700 staff whose primary focus is providing the highest quality patient care to residents throughout the Merrimack Valley. Nationally recognized as a leader in community medicine (family practice, pediatrics, internal medicine, and geriatrics), GLFHC has clinical sites throughout the service area and is the sponsoring organization for the Lawrence Family Medicine Residency program.
GLFHC is currently seeking a Residency Student Coordinator and Data Management Analyst to join our residency department. The Residency Student Coordinator and Data Management Analyst is responsible for collecting, managing, and reporting data required for various residency functions, coordinating GLFHC and residency activities with our affiliated medical schools, including student rotations, and providing administrative support to the Research and Medical Student Directors and Residency Administration. Acts as liaison with our affiliates and other medical schools nationwide for student electives. Responsible for the management of data within the residency program, including data for accreditation and resident evaluation, scholarly activity, and program evaluation. Functions as a Research Associate and Grant Writer for various research projects, supervisor to research assistants, and liaison to collaborating academic institutions and Institutional Review Boards (IRBs):
• Collects data required for ACGME annual accreditation reporting
• Obtains and maintain approval from Institutional Review Board for all current projects.
• Supervises research assistants and ensures study protocol is followed.
• Participates in grant writing and submission for Residency Department.
• Participates in manuscript preparation and submission, co-authors occasionally.
• Participates in conference proposal preparation and submission, co-authors and presents occasionally.
• Serve as contact for all medical student elective rotation requests.
• Screen applicants; issue acceptance and declination communication.
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Bilingual - English/Spanish (Strongly preferred)
• Minimum 3 years demonstrated experience in administration (or equivalent), preferably in an academic setting,
• Must be a well-organized self-starter exhibiting a high degree of professionalism capable of working with limited supervision.
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center (GLFHC), a Federally Qualified Health Center with clinical sites in located in Lawrence and Methuen, Massachusetts, serves over 60,000 unique patients from Lawrence and the surrounding communities of Methuen, Andover, North Andover and Haverhill. It is the second-largest Federally Qualified Health Center in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Since 1980, GLFHC has been fulfilling its mission “to improve and maintain the health of individuals and families in the Merrimack Valley by providing a network of high quality, comprehensive health care services and by training health care professionals who can respond to the needs of a culturally diverse population.”
GLFHC is also home to the nationally-recognized Lawrence Family Medicine Residency (LFMR) program, the first family medicine residency program of its kind in the United States. Solely owned and operated as an academic medical residency by the health center, LFMR has graduated close to 200 primary care physicians. The majority of LFMR graduates have either stayed at the health center or have chosen to stay working in low-income, underserved communities in Massachusetts and across the country. In FY2020, LFMR will be home to 42 residents who participate in one of the only 4-year programs in the country as part of a demonstration project conducted by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services.