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Today, Cedars-Sinai is widely known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients.
Cedars-Sinai receives consistent recognition for our excellence. Our awards include; being named one of America’s Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, receiving the National Research Corporation’s Consumer Choice Award 19 years in a row for providing the highest-quality medical care in Los Angeles, achieving the longest-running Magnet designation for nursing excellence in California, and being recognized as The Advisory Board Company’s 2017 Workplace of the Year, an award Cedars-Sinai has won three years in a row. This annual award recognizes hospitals and health systems nationwide that have outstanding levels of employee engagement.
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The intern will support quality-improvement initiatives by analyzing physician staffing, patient care coordination, and workflow processes within the neurology department.
They will also conduct literature reviews, manage data entry, and assist in the development of manuscripts and presentations.
What you need
Candidates must be enrolled in a graduate program, reside in the greater Los Angeles area, and be able to commute to the facility.
Applicants must also be eligible to receive academic credit for the duration of the internship.
Education: a high school diploma or a postgraduate degree
About Us:
We are a leading research institution committed to advancing scientific
knowledge and innovation. Our team is dedicated to conducting ground breaking
research and providing meaningful learning opportunities for aspiring
scientists. Join us and contribute to our mission while gaining invaluable
experience in a dynamic and collaborative environment.
Dr. Alexis Simpkins invites you to consider this great opportunity to join her
dynamic team!
We can only consider applicants who will be able to commute to our Los Angeles
location a few times per week. You must reside in the commutable area.
Overview of Department & Mentor
The Neurology Department provides clinical care, quality improvement, and
research focused on stroke and cerebrovascular disease. Under the mentorship of
Dr. Alexis Simpkins, the graduate intern will support quality-improvement
initiatives that strengthen physician staffing processes and patient care
coordination across the stroke clinic and related services. Activities may
include reviewing staffing and coverage workflows, analyzing appointment and
referral data, mapping handoffs among neurology, primary care, rehabilitation,
and other services, and finding opportunities to improve timely follow-up and
continuity of care. The role is educational and administrative/operational; it
does not replace a staff position or involve independent clinical
decision-making.
Role Activities & Timeline:
Role Activities and curriculum (skills to be learned) over the course of 1 year:
* Literature review 1 month
* Chart view and redcap entry 7 months
* Manuscript writing last 3 months
* Presentation development 1 month
Career Development mentorship throughout:
* CV building
* Pre-residency neurology prep lectures
* Presentation skills
* Basics of project development and critical thinking for research project
development
Systems Access: N/A
Role Summary & Objectives:
This internship is designed for a student enrolled in a master’s program in
health administration. The intern will learn how healthcare operations,
workforce planning, and care-coordination processes affect access, quality, and
patient experience in a stroke-care setting. Working with the mentor and
relevant clinic leaders, the intern will define a quality-improvement question,
collect and organize de-identified or minimum-necessary operational data,
conduct workflow and root-cause analyses, and help develop and evaluate
practical interventions related to physician staffing and patient care
coordination.
Objectives are to:
1. Assess physician staffing, scheduling, coverage, and workload patterns;
2. Identify barriers to timely referrals, follow-up, and communication across
care teams;
3. Develop process maps, dashboards, and recommendations;
4. Learn quality-improvement methods such as PDSA, Lean, process mapping, and
run-chart interpretation; and (5) present findings to collaborators in a
concise report or presentation. All work will follow institutional privacy,
compliance, and quality-improvement/IRB requirements, and the intern will
not make independent clinical, staffing, or privileging decisions.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required Education & Experience
* Must be 18 years of age or older.
* Must have a HS Diploma or GED.
* Must reside in the greater Los Angeles area or surrounding cities while
conducting all activities related to the intern or visitor appointment.
* INTERNS: Those participating for academic credit must receive academic credit
for the duration of the internship.
* VISITORS: Must be receiving funding from an eligible sponsoring institution
(employer, educator, funder, etc.).
Preferred Education, Experience, and Skills:
* Graduate student currently enrolled in a graduate school (Master’s program,
PhD, or Medical School).
Cedars-Sinai is a leader in providing high-quality healthcare encompassing
primary care, specialized medicine and research. Since 1902, Cedars-Sinai has
evolved to meet the needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation,
setting standards in quality and innovative patient care, research, teaching and
community service. Today, Cedars- Sinai is known for its national leadership in
transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai impacts the
future of healthcare by developing new approaches to treatment and educating
tomorrow's health professionals. Additionally, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a
commitment to the community through programs that improve the health of its most
vulnerable residents.
Cedars-Sinai is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the
U.S., with 915 licensed beds, 2,993 physicians, 4,700+ nurses and thousands of
other healthcare professionals and staff. Choose this if you want to work in a
fast-paced environment that offers the highest level of care to people in the
Los Angeles that need our care the most.
