Graduate Teaching Assistant; GTA): NLP Extraction and Analysis of Clinical Documents Course

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date

Hours per week: 5-7 hours

Anticipated

Start Date:

April 6, 2026

End Date: June 8, 2026

Supervisor: Dr. Anita Palepu, Head, Department of Medicine and Co-lead for Data Science and Health Research Excellence Cluster

Project Overview:
The NLP Graduate Teaching Assistant will support the course coordination and administration of the UBC Extended Learning Micro-certificate Program:
Natural Language Processing to Improve Patient Care, a part-time, 100% online program designed for health professionals to learn foundations in data analytics and artificial intelligence in a health context. The program consists of 3 courses, each 5 weeks in duration. Each course is offered three times through the calendar year. We anticipate each course cohort to be up to 25 students.

The courses are:

· Overview of NLP and Large Language Models

· Extraction and Analysis of Clinical Documents

· Analysis of User Generated Content

A Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) is needed for each course.

It is possible to be a GTA for one course and one offering (~7 weeks employment), however priority will be given to applicants who can commit to more than one course or offering.

Key Responsibilities:

· Work with the Course instructor to ensure course content is up to date on Canvas (e.g. updating announcement dates, assignment due dates, Zoom office hours)

· Respond to student’s questions in weekly discussions on Canvas

· Mark submitted assignments according to provided rubrics with Gradebook and assign student final grades

· Attend weekly office hours as needed (1 hour/week)

· Fix and /or document any mistakes or issues identified with course content for future iterations

Qualifications:

· Enrolled in a graduate program related to data science, or health sciences/medicine disciplines

· Advanced knowledge of natural language processing, data science, statistics and machine learning

· Education or work experience in health sciences, health data sets

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

· Ability to work independently and collaboratively

· Familiarity with Canvas, Jupyter notebook

Salary:
$38.65-$40.16/hour depending on experience

Application Process:
Interested candidates should submit their CV, a cover letter detailing their relevant experience, and contact information for two references.