What is the Recruitment process of doctors without borders association?

🔻The applicant completes an online application form, including a current CV and a skills self-assessment form.

🔻A Field Human Resources Recruitment Officer screens the application and responds within four weeks of receipt of the f application.

🔻Positively screened applicants are invited to interview with a Recruitment Officer, either in the New York office or online via Skype.

🔻Following an interview, reference, check, and criminal background check, suitable applicants are invited to attend a three-day non-technical induction course called Information Days in New York

🔻Following completion of Information Days, successful applicants are accepted into the pool of active field staff

🔻Placement on a field assignment is entirely dependent on field needs and can take several months from the point of acceptance into the active pool.

‼️Unfortunately, MSF does not accept medical students.

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Essentials in Macular Degeneration management and recent advances

🌀Offered by the London Diabetes Center.

🌀Thursday, September 9th

🌀21:30–23:30 (Tehran time), 17:00-19:00 (GMT).

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📩How to Email a Research Professor

Your email should:

▫️Have an informative subject line

▫️Be concise

▫️Be formal: Dear Dr. Smith; Sincerely, Your Name

▫️Not use Mrs. or Ms.

▫️NOT have slang, abbreviations, or emoticons

▫️If applying for an opening:
🔸address any qualifications the professor is looking for
🔸demonstrate your experience

▫️If asking for a research opportunity:
🔸state specifically your interest in that research group (you need to read the professor's website)
🔸explain why research is important for your goals
🔸ask to schedule a meeting or say that you will be coming to office hours

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Introduction to Randomised Controlled Trials

💢Free course offered by the University of Birmingham.

💢Discover the importance of trials in evidence-based medicine and learn about the trial lifecycle from conception to publication.

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What makes a good poster?

🔰Most conferences include poster presentations in their program. Research posters summarize information or research concisely and attractively to help publicize it and generate discussion.

🔰The poster is usually a mixture of a brief text mixed with tables, graphs, pictures, and other presentation formats. At a conference, the researcher stands by the poster display while other participants can come and view the presentation and interact with the author.

🔰Here are some factors that should be considered for designing a poster:

1. Important information should be readable from about 10 feet away.
2. The title is short and draws interest.
3. Word count of about 300 to 800 words.
4. Text is clear and to the point.
5. The use of bullets, numbering, and headlines make it easy to read
6. Effective use of graphics, color, and fonts
7. Consistent and clean layout
Includes acknowledgments, your name, and institutional affiliation.

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📌This pdf contains some characteristics of an effective poster that would help you in designing a poster.

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AI for Medical Diagnosis

🔘Free course in the coursera offered by DeepLearning.AI

🔘Disease detection with computer vision, Evaluating models, and Image segmentation on MRI images are the main topics discussed in this course.

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How to Put Together a Great Poster for a Medical Conference

✔️Before you start, plan on a paper - brainstorm your topic and organize ideas into sections, use Post-It notes to organize the layout.

✔️Include acknowledgments, authors’ names, and institution affiliations

✔️Sections: Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusion, References

✔️Choose your content carefully - remember to include the most interesting parts of your research. Don’t try to include everything!

✔️Landscape is the default but portrait layout can be effective.

✔️Less text, more infographics, and images!

✔️Avoid complex graphs or charts
*Include references (limit to 3-5)

✔️Use a QR code if references do not fit on the poster

✔️Make sure to use the official logos of the organization associated with authors/projects - these can be found on their website.

✔️Potential to use QR code to link further discussion e.g. short (2 minutes) audio clip introducing the poster, or can be used to link extra resources.

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🎙🩺The Undifferentiated Medical Student Podcast

◽️This podcast series contains interviews with doctors from 120 different specialties in The Undifferentiated Medical Student. From pediatrics to sleep medicine.

◽️Each episode of this growingly popular podcast follows the same format for easy listening. You’ll learn about the day of each featured specialty as well as how each interviewee came to realize it was the right path for them. They’ll also be a bunch of incredibly helpful advice for long-term career planning.

📌See here for podcasts of The Undifferentiated Medical Students.

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How to Put Together a Great Poster for a Medical Conference

Some tips about the text of your poster:

🔘Word count: 300-800 words
Most important information should be readable 3 meters away!

🔘You can use boxes behind headings to help the reader quickly identify different sections on your poster.

🔘Ensure the font size is appropriate and able to be read clearly.

🔘The text should be clear, brief, and concise.

🔘Choose a font that is easy to read, we’re shifting towards sans serif.
Recommendations:
Sans serif: Arial, Helvetica
Serif: Time New Roman

🔘Limit to only a couple of font styles for consistency
If possible, use the same font but alter between bold/italic if necessary.

🔘Make use of bullets and numbering to help guide the audience.

🔘Make sure to use an appropriate spacing of text to help the reader read clearly and to allow breathability.

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Ultrasound Imaging: What Is Inside?

💢Free course offered by University of Twente.

💢Medical perspective, Technical perspective, and Technical medical perspective by introducing cases are three main topics that are discussed in this course.

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Handbook for Academic Medicine Writing

📌This handbook discusses some important points and exercises about academic medicine writing like guidelines for writing abstract, letter to editor, etc.

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🦠COVID-19: Understanding the Research Behind the Pandemic

🟢Free course offered by National Institute for Health Research.

🟢In this course you can discover how scientists responded to the pandemic and how they conduct innovative research to develop treatments and vaccines.

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25 Best Health and Medical Information Sites

🌐https://www.refseek.com/directory/health_medical.html

📌At the link above, you can see top sites of medical references and information. With few exceptions, the sites are available for free and without registration.

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Process Mining in Healthcare

🔹Free course offered by Eindhoven University of Technology.

🔹On this course you will explore how process mining can help turn this data into valuable insights by looking at different areas of process mining and seeing how it has been applied. Also, you will get the chance to apply process mining on real life healthcare data.

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The Most Popular Med Student Instagram Influencers

⭕️As strange as it sounds, social media can help make medical school easier. It’s a convenient way to connect with others in the field and get their tips.

⭕️Medical student Instagram influencers try to ease that struggle for their peers. As they find helpful tricks, they want to share them so that others can benefit, too. These influencers have shown that they can help by sharing only medical content or also including posts from their daily life.

📌At this link, you can find a list of highly engaging medical student Instagram influencers that you can follow.

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Ulcerative Colitis and IBD Care: Keys to Optimizing Treatment and Outcomes

🔹Free CME/CPE Webinar with Live Q&A

🔹Offered by Vindico Medical Education, LLC

🔹Saturday, October 2th

🔹17:30-20:30 (Tehran time), 14:00-17:00 (GMT)

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​​📝Important Tips for Choosing the Best Title for your Paper

First of all, we should know that the titles of journal articles fall under three basic categories:
1. Declarative: states main findings or conclusions of the article
2. Descriptive: describes the subject of the article but leaves out the findings/conclusion
3. Interrogation: the subject of the article takes the form of a question

The Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (JCE) in 2016, presented a study entitled “Association between titles of healthcare articles and inclusion in the Altmetric Top 100.” For each title, they measured the following:

🔻Number of characters (length of the article title)
🔻Number of uncommon words
🔻Is it declarative?

The findings observed in the study are as follows:

🔺Titles in the Altmetric Top 100 were 102.6 characters long, included 3.4 uncommon words, and 29.6% were declarative

🔺Declarative titles having lesser uncommon words were significantly more represented in the Altmetric Top 100

🔺Declarative titles had 2.8 times the odds of being on the top list

🔺For every extra uncommon word used in the title, there was a 1.4 increase in the odds of being a non-Altmetric Top 100 article

🔺The conclusion of the study showed that an informative and easy-to-understand title might help in bridging the gap between scholarly and social media dissemination.

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📱Social Media in Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges

🔸Free course offered by TAIPEI Medical University

🔸This course is for anyone who is looking into the opportunities and challenges of using social media in healthcare, including as a mass communication tool during infectious disease epidemics.

🔸Main topics include:
-Introduction to social media and networking
-Social media generated big data
-Gamification and social media for health behavior change
-Social media and health communication crisis
-Use of social media by hospitals and health authorities
-What can patients do for themselves via social media?

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📝Writing a Good Research Title: Things to Avoid
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Interesting research topics coupled with clever yet accurate research titles can draw more attention to your work.
It would be helpful to have a list of what should never go into the title of an article. With this “don’ts” list, authors could have a handy tool to maximize the impact of their research.

🔰A Handy List of Don’ts

🌀The period generally has no place in a title (even a declarative phrase can work without a period)
🌀Any kind of dashes to separates title parts (however, hyphens to link words is fine)
🌀Chemical formula, like H2O, CH4, etc. (instead use their common or generic names)
🌀Avoid roman numerals (e.g., VIII, IX, etc.)
🌀Semi-colons, as in “;” (the colon, however, is useful to make two-part titles)
🌀The taxonomic hierarchy of species of plants, animals, fungi, etc. is not needed
🌀Abbreviations (except for RNA, DNA which is widely known)
🌀Uncommon words (a few are okay, but too many can influence altimetric scoring)

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