>> Okay my name is Sinead
Jeffrey [assumed spelling]
and I am a research assistant
at Magee-Women's Hospital.
So what I do is a lot of clinical-based research
with dealing with women of reproductive age,
HIV prevention and contraception research.
A busy day for us would be definitely a
day booked full of research participants.
They're all volunteers who would like to be a
part of our studies and like I said we do a lot
with women so all of our
studies are focused on that.
And a typical day would be a visit for
a research study, typically takes two
to three hours so we have
about three or four of those
and in a very busy day we
could even have up to five.
So a day is very long for me.
I work from 7 to 5 p.m. every day.
So I work on two different sides
of my job, the clinical part,
which is actually when the research
assistant is there and then the data part
when they leave essentially, the paperwork.
So when they're there we do a lot of help,
basically taking in their information.
We do a lot of demographic assessments, physical
assessments which includes like vital signs.
I also take people's blood so we
run this blood for like HIV analysis
and collect their blood counts,
things like that.
So I get to take this blood and also I
assist the clinician, usually a doctor
or a nurse-practitioner in the exam room.
We do different things such as
cervical and then we draw biopsies.
We get to assist even in the OR and also we
get to do like ultrasounds with these women.
And the second part of that is basically
gathering all that information that we collected
from that day or that visit and transcribing
it on to paper or on the computer.
And since we're clinical research a lot of our
studies are sponsored blood so what that means,
there's basically someone in charge of our study
that we send this information to and they get
to analyze it and it's usually towards the
end goal of bringing something to market
so we do definitely the legwork of that.
That data could, we enter it like I said.
We also do, it depends on the study, different
analyses of that data which could be on Excel
or Stata, things like that,
data analysis tools so we get
to do a lot of that and it's constant data.
So like I said up to four to five visits a
day means a lot of paperwork towards the end.