Research Associate / Doctoral Candidate in the field of Medical Knowledge and Decision Support (m/f/d)

Your tasks

In this research position, you will work with mixed qualitative and quantitative approaches to answer questions about the changing clinical landscape in the light of increasing digitalisation. You will conduct interviews and observation studies with clinicians and seek to understand their transformative experiences in the context of the currently available digital tools and their hopes and expectations for the future of digitalisation in a changing healthcare environment. Your research will also seek to build bridges by amplifying the voices of clinicians for the developers of healthcare informatics systems, to ensure that such systems optimally support clinicians in their work in the future.

Your profile

• An interest in digital transformation in healthcare and its human dimension in clinical contexts
• Master's degree in a discipline related to human medicine, clinical information science, health psychology, health informatics or human-computer interaction
• Empathy and communication skills to work effectively with a wide range of collaborators and research participants (in German and English)
• Basic skills in data analysis and visualisation and the willingness to learn tools for reproducible research, e.g. the Python programming language and Jupyter notebooks
• Must fulfill the admission requirements for the HSG doctoral program in management with a focus on technology management

The School of Medicine is an innovative and future-oriented research institute of the HSG, with chairs for Healthcare Management, Digital Health Interventions and Medical Knowledge and Decision Support. The Medical Knowledge and Decision Support Lab is led by Prof. Dr. Janna Hastings who holds a PhD in biological science and masters in computer science and in philosophy. Prof. Hastings is interested in the human dimension of computer technologies and the evolution of human-computer relationships in an increasingly digitalised world in the context of developments such as personalised and integrative medicine. Her group brings together computer scientists, informaticians and psychologists to answer questions at the interface between clinical and information systems.

The group of Medical Knowledge and Decision Support at the HSG School of Medicine is interested in the impact of increasing digitalisation – digital knowledge, decision support tools, and the growing promise of artificial intelligence – on the working lives of clinicians, their workflows, their professional identities, their relationships with each other and with their patients.

The application deadline is 31 October 2022.

We are looking forward to your online-application. apply here

Inspirational Work Environment

Executive Education

Family & Career

Equal Opportunities

Fit and Healthy

Inspirational Work Environment

At the HSG, as Europe's leading business university, we operate in an entrepreneurial environment where you will meet highly qualified, ambitious experts - both regionally and internationally. For example, you benefit from a modern IT infrastructure and, in our library via HSGswisscovery, from nationwide access to the wealth of scientific information available.

Executive Education

We support internal and external executive education opportunities. Our internal executive education programme offers you a practical, dedicated and didactically mature transfer of knowledge in the form of seminars, e-learning, coaching and collegial advice. We support task-specific external training and executive education financially as well as with regard to the time required.

Network

We promote our culture of cross-functional collaboration and create space for forging valuable relationships - also with external partners. Regular exchanges and internal events help to strengthen these relationships and make them long-lasting.

Family & Career

We provide our employees with flexible work time models with a variable number of hours per week. As a family-friendly employer, we offer part-time positions, 16 weeks of maternity leave and a subsidised crèche, as well as support with childcare during the vacations.

Equal Opportunities

The University enables equal opportunities for all employees and students. This applies to degree courses and work, as well as academic careers, university management positions and the reconciliation of studies, work and private commitments. We are committed to this with various measures in the areas of teaching, research, administration and the Presidency.

Fit and Healthy

We help you stay fit and healthy. In addition to our diverse range of sports activities at the university, most of which are free of charge, and campaign weeks for corporate health management, we also offer you fruit in the workplace. In our canteen you will find a wide selection of freshly prepared meals - from vegetarian to fish dishes - at discounted prices.

Further information on working at the HSG can be found here.

For job-related questions

Prof. Dr. Janna Hastings
Professor for Medical Knowledge and Decision Support
janna.hastings@unisg.ch

«If you have a curious mind and passion in the field of Medical Knowledge and Decision Support we are looking for you.»

Doris Brand
Head Services & Marketing
Phone: +41 71 224 32 07
doris.brand@unisg.ch

«We are looking forward to your application and would be very happy to welcome you very soon.»

Your place of work

University of St.Gallen

«A place where knowledge is created» - As one of Europe's leading universities of economics and business administration, the University of St.Gallen (HSG), Switzerland, is committed to the education of over 8800 students. The HSG is one of the largest employers in the region and provides an attractive and innovative environment for more than 3300 researchers, educators and professional staff.