Two PhD Scholarships in IT Support for Clinical Overview
Roskilde University and Region Zealand, Denmark, invite applications for 2
PhD scholarships in the field of IT support for healthcare clinicians'
overview in their treatment of patients and coordination with other
clinicians. The PhD scholarships will be associated with the PhD program
"Design and Management of Information Technology" at Roskilde University.
The two PhD scholarships involve evaluation of healthcare information
systems in laboratory as well as field settings to assess whether they
support clinicians' overview. The scholarships also provide opportunities
for working with the analysis of clinical work to specify healthcare
information systems and with the design of user interfaces for such
systems to support overview. Region Zealand, which is one of the five
healthcare regions in Denmark, provides access to selected clinical wards
at the region's hospitals and is in the process of establishing a
laboratory for the pilot testing of systems. The scholarships will be part
of a collaboration, which also involves a company that designs healthcare
information systems. Two foci have been chosen for this collaboration, and
applicants are expected to relate their research to these two foci:
- Overview at the level of the ward by collecting and presenting selected
information about all patients at a ward via a large, shared display.
- Overview at the level of the patient by structuring, visualizing, and
providing ways for individual clinicians to navigate patient information.
== The PhD scholarships ==
The scholarships involve presence at Roskilde University (Roskilde),
Region Zealand (Sorø), and selected hospital wards in the Zealand
region. At Roskilde University, the scholarships are based in the research
group User-driven IT innovation (http://www.udi.ruc.dk) at the Department of
Communication, Business and Information Technologies. In Region Zealand,
the scholarships are based in the Department of Quality and Development.
Applicants must have a master degree, preferably in computer science,
healthcare informatics, or a related field with an emphasis on systems
development and human-computer interaction, but applicants with a mainly
clinical background are also welcome. As the scholarships involve
fieldwork at hospital wards in the region applicants must be fluent in
Danish.
Applications should include:
- A detailed project description and work plan of the research the
applicant plans to undertake (max. 5 pages)
- CV with relevant educational, professional, and academic qualifications
The positions also involve that the successful applicants, within the 3-year
employment period, follow PhD courses relevant to their research, get
experience with teaching, and participate in research environments
external to the collaboration between Roskilde University and Region
Zealand.
== If you want to know more ==
you are welcome to contact associate professor Morten Hertzum on +45 4674
3077, mhz@ruc.dk, or Lars Demant on +45 5787 5218, ld@regionsjaelland.dk.
Additional information about the project in which the scholarships take
place can also be found at http://www.ruc.dk/~mhz/ClinOverview.pdf (in Danish).
The application deadline is February 18, 2009, at 12:00 noon.
Applications and appendices for the PhD scholarships should be sent in 3
copies to:
Roskilde University
Department for Communication, Business and Information Technologies
The PhD administration: Chris Holmsted Larsen
Post box 260, Building 42.3
4000 Roskilde
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