Medical Editing Intern (Summer 2018)

Company

 

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian organization that provides medical care to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from health care in over 70 countries.

We welcome candidates who bring a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences to join us in working toward MSF’s common mission.

 

Department

 

MSF currently operates activities in 35 countries with a wide spectrum of programs. The Medical Project Unit in MSF New York is part of the Medical Department of Operational Center – Paris (OCP) and provides technical support for: Tropical Medicine, Infectious Diseases (including antimicrobial resistance (AMR), medical quality, and medical article writing and publication.

 

Project

 

The Medical Editor of MSF-USA works with medical and field staff to disseminate research findings and perspectives, and to increase the visibility of MSF medical research within medical, research, and policymaking communities. This is done through peer-reviewed journal articles; scientific conference abstracts, presentations, and posters; MSF technical publications; and special projects and events.

The Medical Editing Intern will work with the Medical Editor on further developing and updating a database of MSF research publications. An undergraduate student with interest medical publishing, library science, and humanitarian medicine would best suit this position.

Objective: To support the Medical Editor of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), while learning about humanitarian medical research and medical/scientific publishing for an international nongovernmental organization.

 

Tasks

 

• Assist with further developing database tools to store and disseminate information on MSF publications (50%)
• Perform literature searches for articles on various medical topics (20%)
• Enter data on MSF research publications into databases (20%)
• Other tasks as assigned (10%)
 

 

Requirements

 

Required Skills:
• Proficiency with Microsoft Access, Excel, and Word
• Proficiency in medical literature searches (PubMed, Google Scholar)
• Good understanding of scientific/medical publication practices
• Excellent research and writing skills
• Strong interest in medical/scientific publishing and humanitarian medicine and research
Preferred Skills:
• Programming experience in Visual Basic
• Background knowledge of data structures, relationship-based databases.
• Expertise and interest in knowledge management and/or outcomes research
• Experience using reference management tools such as Mendeley
 

 

Type

 

HQ

 

Contract Type

 

Internship

 

Desired Hiring Date

 

29.May.2018

 

Employment End Date

 

24.August.2018

 

Working Time %

60,00

 

How to Apply

 

To apply, please send letter of interest/cover letter and resume to internships@msf.newyork.org. Submissions without cover letter will not be reviewed.

 

Example: If you are applying to the IT Internship for the Spring 2018 program, then your email Subject line should be: IT Intern - Spring 2018.

 

If you are applying for more than one internship position, please send an email for each position using the example above.

 

Note: Preferred document submission format is PDF and Microsoft Word Document.

 

Application Deadline: April 18, 2018