Urgent Part-Time Medical Research Officer

11 hours ago

Cairns Regional, Australia Puthisastra Full time

Part-Time Medical Research Officer (FDC)

I. Duties and Responsibilities:
The Medical Research Officer will play a pivotal role in enhancing the quality and timeliness of MD student thesis while help fostering a collaborative research environment.

Key duties include:

- Work with dean and deputy dean for research to improve the medical students’ thesis writing

- Guide medical students in thesis writing, ensuring adherence to academic guidelines and timely submission.

- Assist students and faculty with research design, data analysis (descriptive/inferential statistics), and draft thesis/manuscript preparation.

- Review and refine thesis drafts to ensure quality and readiness for defense. Make sure that the theses of MD students are of sufficient quality and are potentially for defenses.

- Provide additional support to train students in biostatistics tools and reference management (Mandalay, Zotero etc.).

- Support in organizing defenses process, including scheduling, examiner coordination, and compliance with university protocols.

- Actively involve on the development of research and publication and contributions in teaching and lecturing

- Encourage and supervise research carried out by students in the Faculty of Medicine and help ensure that it is of sufficient quality to lead to publications in international/national, peer-reviewed journals

- Coordinate and personally contribute to students and Faculty on research activities, ensure their on-time development and submission, and timely reporting.

- Personally supervise the thesis of the medical student groups, providing structured feedback.

- Ensure alignment with university policies and reporting requirements.

- Perform other duties and assume additional responsibilities as assigned by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine.

II. Qualifications and Requirements:

1. Education:

- MD or Bachelor’s in Medical Science (advanced degrees preferred).

2. Experience:

- Have experiences in research (collection data, proposal writing, analysis data)

- Familiar with biostatistics and data analysis and the used tools (Excel, SPSS, Stata, R)

- Hold publications as first author in journals (national/international).

- Strong communication and teamwork skills; respectful and open to feedback.

- Ability to develop and maintain excellent working relationships thesis and research

- Ability and enthusiasm to take initiative to solve or improve problems and issues proactively.

- Excellent oral and written command of English.

- Flexibility to work with delayed submissions and motivate students.

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