Job Description

Your Opportunity to Bring Evidence-Based Medicine to Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Costello Medical provides scientific support to the healthcare industry in the analysis, interpretation and communication of clinical and health economic data. Through both commercial and charitable projects, we are dedicated to the improvement of health and healthcare globally.

In our unique Global Health Internship, in partnership with the National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, we are offering an individual from a low- or middle- income country the opportunity to gain skills in evidence-based medicine by working on a healthcare problem relevant to their community.

About the Role

We will share our skills and knowledge in evidence-based medicine, medical communication and health economics through working together on a specific health problem from your community. Past projects from Global Health Interns in our UK offices have included:

• Developing a costing model on antimicrobial stewardship in primary care for urinary tract infections in Tunisia
• Conducting a systematic literature review of interventions to improve referral processes for women seeking childbirth care in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Assessing youth-friendly reproductive health services in Malawi

Our ultimate goal is to support public health efforts in reducing the burden of disease in low- or middle-income countries through strengthening local research capabilities, thereby building capacity locally to address healthcare problems and devise evidence-based health policies.

The Costello Medical Global Health Internship Scheme will therefore support your professional development, which we hope will allow you to train other local practitioners in evidence-based medicine after successful completion of the internship. Specifically, you will gain experience in research, the design and presentation of deliverables and quality control.

You will need to identify and work on a project exploring and tackling a health-related issue relevant to your community; this may involve performing systematic searches of medical literature, assimilating clinical and cost-effectiveness evidence, and analysing and creatively presenting data in a variety of formats.

The internship is a fixed-term and full-time position, usually for 3 months, which starts on Monday 15th January 2024 at our .

Requirements

About You

This internship is suited to recent graduates and post-graduates from a low-or middle-income country, looking to gain skills in evidence-based medicine by working with a healthcare consultancy.

The successful candidate should:

• Be a national of a low- or middle-income country, working, recently graduated from or currently studying in a health-related profession, who will be able to use the skills gained during their internship to benefit their work and their own community. This could include entry-level graduates or those in between jobs with interests in healthcare, early-career health practitioners, health-related charity or NGO workers, health researchers or other health professionals
• Be educated in a health or science-related subject
• Be fluent in written and spoken English and have good numeracy skills
• Be able to prioritise own tasks and workload
• Have a \xe2\x80\x9ccan do\xe2\x80\x9d approach, and initiative, positivity and creativity
• Be able to work in a team and with an excellent level of productivity
• Have a developed project plan to tackle during their internship. The candidate will be required to explain:

• Why they think their project topic is important
• Their proposed project approach
• What their project will produce at the end of the internship, for example, a manuscript, policy paper, newspaper article, educational leaflet, economic model
• The anticipated implications of their project for their community after the internship

It should be noted that the internship is not intended as a means to gain experience at a Singapore-based company with a view to gaining full-time employment at Costello Medical. The internship is to be completed full-time and on-site at our .

Benefits

What We Offer

• Visa sponsorship via the S-Pass
• A stipend of SGD 3,000 per month to cover accommodation and living costs
• A desk and IT equipment for the duration of the internship
• Flexible working hours. Costello Medical operates a 37.5-hour week (7.5 hours/day) with 1 hour for lunch. Core working hours are 10:00\xe2\x80\x9316:30 but we offer flexible working around these times
• Further opportunities for cultural exchange, such as giving presentations to those at Costello Medical and full integration into company life e.g. 2-week induction training sessions, attendance at company social events

Collaboration with the National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health

The Global Health Internship is run in collaboration with the National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, and the successful candidate will also benefit from academic support from the university in terms of library access and the opportunity to attend relevant lectures, training sessions or departmental events as part of the graduate course. For further information on the graduate and undergraduate modules on Public Health offered by the School, please visit this .

How to Apply

Please apply via our online application form. You will need to upload your CV, along with a cover letter explaining why you are interested in this opportunity and how you fulfil the requirements outlined above. You should also include details of the specific project(s) that you would like to work on during your internship and answer some questions about your project(s) using our online application form.

The deadline for applications is Sunday 24th September 2023. Interviews will be arranged according to your availability and will be held over Microsoft Teams.

For more information:

Please visit our website or contact our recruitment team at recruitment@costellomedical.com.

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