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)
• References managements (endnote, Mandalay, Zotero etc.)
• Hold publications as first author in journals (national/international).

3. Skills/Competencies:

• 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.