We are looking for an enthousiastic PhD candidate for our project 'MONITOR: a multi-parameter, non-invasive wearable for home-based monitoring of vital signs for early relocation of cardiac care'. Will you join our team and work in a unique, multidisciplinary working and learning environment?

Patients with acute myocardial infarction or underwent cardiac surgery are in need for close monitoring, including heartrate and blood pressure, both at the coronary care unit (CCU) and hospital wards. This type of care is high in cost and time-consuming. Recent developments in wearables have resulted in a multi-parameter physiological monitor to continuously register these signs, which allow for 24/7 central monitoring and digital communication with healthcare professionals.

These developments may relocate CCU-/hospital-based healthcare towards a home-based environment. This will be done through using novel wearable to monitor heart rate and other vital signs (Techmedic), but also through sustainable connected care networks (NAAST, CardioWorks). In the proposed project, we will evaluate the usability and validity of the multi-parameter monitor within a hospital environment compared with current procedures.

Secondly, we will examine the accuracy of the multi-parameter monitor to acutely detect abnormalities of vital signs within a mock-situation and develop sustainable connected care networks for home-based monitoring.

Finally, we aim to evaluate the implementation of the multi-parameter physiological monitor for continuous monitoring of STEMI patients following PCI within the 'Radboudumc-hotel' compared to current care. Through this work we aim to facilitate relocation of high-quality care <24-hours of admission, which leads to prevention of re-admissions/re-hospitalisation, reduction of healthcare costs, and improvement in quality of care.

You should have a Master's degree (or equivalent) in biomedical sciences, (technical) medicine, or human movement sciences and have a strong interest in technology. Ideally, you have experience and/or interest in clinical studies (in patient groups). In addition, you have outstanding statistical, communicative and collaborative skills, and you have experience in writing scientific articles.

This project will offer you the opportunity to do crosscutting research on a pertinent topic in a stimulating, multi-centre environment with access to both high-quality data and expert supervision. This may jumpstart your academic career. However, for these promises to deliver, this requires your dedication, determination to succeed, ability to scientifically excel, and above all creativity to handle (scientific) challenges as they come along. You should demonstrate the potency to be one of those emerging scientific talents of the future generation.

Fixed-term contract: 4 years.

The salary depends on education. Scale 10 will be offered to MSc medical graduates; those holding degrees in other disciplines will be offered scale 10A. You will be ranked in the Dutch university job-ranking system (UFO) as a PhD student (promovendus). ThePhD studentship will commence between November and December 2022.

Working at Radboud university medical center means that you are ahead of the curve and working together on the healthcare of the future. And there is more. Our secondary terms of employment are impressive. These are fully tailored to you thanks to our Employment Conditions Selection Model. At Radboud university medical center, you will be given trust, and you will take the responsibility to handle everything together. We provide annual courses, both professional and personal.

• In addition to your monthly salary and an annual vacation allowance of 8%, you will receive an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%.
• If you work irregular hours, you will receive an allowance.
• As a full-time employee (36 hours per week), you are entitled to approximately 168 vacation hours (over 23 days) per year.
• Radboud university medical center pays 70% of the pension premium. You pay the rest of the premium with your gross salary.
• You get a discount on health insurance as well: you can take advantage of two group health insurance plans. UMC Zorgverzekering and CZ collectief.

In addition to our terms of employment, we also offer employees various other attractive facilities, such as childcare and sports facilities. Want to learn more? Take a look at the Cao UMC.

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The Radboud University Medical Center and the Radboud Institute for Health Sciences (RIHS) offer a unique, multidisciplinary working and learning environment with opportunities for developing expertise in a diversity of research areas and techniques. Prof. Dick Thijssen (Physiology) will be your primary supervisor, whereas monthly meetings will be scheduled with Prof. Robert-Jan van Geuns (Cardiology). As we also very much value social and communication skills, you will be stimulated to take part in the vivid social interactions and scientific debates in our research institute.

Research Institutes
At the moment there are more than 1,300 PhD candidates at our medical hospital. This number includes PhD candidates on our pay roll as well as external candidates (those employed somewhere else but researching on our premises).

• Radboud Institute for Health Sciences: ± 700
• Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences: ± 400
• Donders Center for Medical Neurosciences: ± 200

Read what it is like to do a PhD at the Radboud University Medical Center.

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Radboud university medical center is a university medical center for patient care, scientific research, and education in Nijmegen. Radboud university medical center strives to be at the forefront of shaping the healthcare of the future. We do this in a person-centered and innovative way, and in close collaboration with our network. We want to have a significant impact on healthcare. We want to improve with each passing day, continuously working towards better healthcare, research, and education. And gaining a better understanding of how diseases arise and how we can prevent, treat, and cure them, day in and day out. This way, every patient always receives the best healthcare, now and in the future. Because that is why we do what we do.

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