HRIC Seeking Masters Student for Research on the Kristeller Maneuver

The Kristeller Maneuver, or fundal pressure, is an emergency obstetric maneuver that is used routinely in many parts of the world. A research team is currently being assembled to complete a project on the prevalence of the Kristeller and women’s experiences of it. This is the perfect opportunity for a Masters student who is looking for a research topic for his/her thesis project, with the supervision and assistance of experienced midwifery and obstetrics researchers.

This is a project where the chosen student would be given the opportunity to acquire the following skills:

1. Survey development, including assessing the validity of the survey and cultural appropriateness (language, health system) using a novel and important method.

2. Analysis of quantitative data, including cleaning data, developing a conceptual model, descriptive statistics and regression equations (likely logistic regression).

3. Drafting scientific publications
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The chosen candidate will be the lead researcher for the majority of the following research steps; for items that are currently outside the skill set of the chosen candidate, we will work to find people who can do them.

Steps:
1. Development of a study protocol

2. Ethics approval at your university

3. Survey validation: cognitive interviews with women to assess the intelligibility of the survey.

4. Program the survey

5. Ensure that we have a functional backend that will give us a usable dataset (file, format, etc).

6. Launch the survey: Recruitment, managing the team, advertising and promotion

7. Data cleaning

8. Data analysis

If you are interested in participating, please send a short letter of motivation and CV to Dr. Nicholas Rubashkin, [email protected] by January 10th 2019.


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Nicholas Rubashkin
HRiC President
Nicholas Rubashkin obtained his MD and MA (Anthropology) from Stanford University. He is an obstetrician who was born at home on a remote island in the state of Maine.

He is currently a PhD candidate in Global Health Sciences at the University California San Francisco (UCSF) where his dissertation research will focus on the global cesarean epidemic. He is also a clinical professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at UCSF.