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The Defense Health Agency, National Capital Region Medical Directorate (NCR-MD) is the future of Military Medicine- a partnership in World Class Medical Healthcare. The Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE), Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, Dilorenzo Clinic and the Joint Pathology Center, provide world class medical services to the nation's service members and their families.
About the Position:
Darnall Medical Library serves Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC), Bethesda, MD. WRNMMC is the largest military medical center in the world, providing health care to over 1,000,000 service members and beneficiaries. The medical center has 67 graduate medical education programs with approximately 750 trainees. As the clinical librarian you will support graduate medical education programs at the point of care. The librarian will develop education programs to support evidence-based practice. He or she will apply expert skill in using Medline, Embase, Web of Science, and other relevant clinical information sources to conduct literature searches for patient-specific care and clinical research hospital wide.
Who May Apply: U.S. Citizens
11/10/2017 to 11/27/2017
$79,720 - $103,639 per year
GS 12
1 vacancy in the following location:
Not required
No
Permanent
Full-Time
No
NCJT174196719729D
484090400
As one of two clinical librarians,you will the serve as the liaison to the Internal Medicine graduate medical education programs and to the Medical Intensive Care Unit. You will attend inpatient teaching rounds 3-4 times a week, conducting real-time searches of the evidence for clinicians and trainees. Serve as expert searcher of a variety of clinical information tools to retrieve published and grey literature to resolve questions on diagnosis, management, and prognosis of conditions and to support clinical research projects. You will actively participates in clinically relevant forums such as morning report, clinical didactics, and journal club. You will be responsible for developing and teaching classes that support evidence-based practice and for teaching general clinical database searching skills in large and small group settings.
Other Requirements:
Only degrees from an accredited college or university recognized by the Department of Education are acceptable to meet positive education requirements or to substitute education for experience. For additional information, please go to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and U.S. Department of Education websites at - http://www.opm.gov/qualifications and http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html.
Foreign education must be evaluated for U.S. equivalency in order to be considered for this position. Please submit your foreign education evaluation with your application.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
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Basis for Rating: Qualified candidates will be assigned to one of three quality categories: Best Qualified, Highly Qualified and Qualified. Veteran preference eligibles are listed ahead of non-preference eligibles within each quality category.
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Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
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To apply for this position, you must complete the online questionnaire and submit the documentation specified in the Required Documents section below.
The complete application package must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on 11/27/2017 to receive consideration.
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This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/484090400. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
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