Remote Pre-Doc Research Fellow — Academic Medicine

Partner's Healthcare; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 28,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

Mass General Brigham Incorporated in Boston is seeking a highly organized, part-time Research Assistant to support scholarly activities, with duties including slide deck development, literature reviews, and manuscript preparation.

The role requires strong writing, research, and communication skills, and involves collaboration with faculty on academic medicine projects in psychology/neuropsychology. 0.5 FTE and hourly pay reflect flexible, part-time engagement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required; candidates should be enrolled in a doctoral program in psychology, neuropsychology, clinical psychology, developmental psychology, education, neuroscience, or a closely related field.
• Strong academic writing skills and experience reading, summarizing, and synthesizing scientific literature.
• Experience preparing professional presentations, educational materials, slide decks, or manuscripts.
• Excellent attention to detail, organization, and time management.
• Ability to work independently while incorporating feedback from supervising faculty.
• Familiarity with APA style, reference management tools, and academic publication processes preferred.

Responsibilities

• Speaking engagement preparation: Assist with planning and organizing materials for invited talks, lectures, workshops, professional presentations, and educational sessions.
• Slide preparation: Draft, revise, format, and polish slide decks to ensure content is clear, visually organized, audience-appropriate, and aligned with presentation goals.
• Literature review and background research: Conduct targeted literature searches, summarize relevant findings, and identify current evidence, clinical guidelines, and key citations to support presentations and manuscripts.
• Manuscript support: Assist with preparation of scholarly manuscripts, including organizing outlines, drafting or revising sections, compiling references, checking citation accuracy, and helping prepare materials for submission.
• Content synthesis: Translate research findings into concise summaries, talking points, presentation narratives, tables, or figures as needed.
• Project organization: Maintain organized files, reference lists, timelines, drafts, and version histories for ongoing presentation and writing projects.
• Collaboration and communication: Meet regularly with supervising faculty to review priorities, receive feedback, and ensure timely completion of assigned tasks.

Skills

Strong writing

Literature review

Communication

Organizational skills

Independent work with supervision

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Doctoral program in psychology/neuropsychology

Tools

APA style

Reference management tools

Job description

Mass General Brigham Incorporated in Boston is seeking a highly organized, part-time Research Assistant to support scholarly activities, with duties including slide deck development, literature reviews, and manuscript preparation.

The role requires strong writing, research, and communication skills, and involves collaboration with faculty on academic medicine projects in psychology/neuropsychology. 0.5 FTE and hourly pay reflect flexible, part-time engagement.