We are searching for a few creative, light-hearted, detail-oriented medical research assistant to extract health and wellness messages to empower people to stay active and live healthily. You can have fully flexible working hours and locations.
If you are a pre-med student currently in school, you are eligible to apply this position.
Responsibilities:
· Perform research on medical information from literature and authorized medical websites
· Present them in a concise, and easy-to-digest manner
· May conduct interviews with medical doctors, care team specialists, patients, and their caregivers.
Requirements:
· Pre-med students
· Passionate to work in the medical field
· Inspired to be an amazing patient-centric medical doctor
· Strong organization and communication skills
· Ability to work with a range of stakeholders
· Team player able to work with and without direction
REQUIRED Submission (Upload the following files in your google drive and share the link with us):
· A less than 2-minute video to tell us about yourself. We want to know about you. Tell us about your passion, career inspiration, and how you have been preparing for it.
· Extract key information from a Nature article (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2587487/):
Handschin C, Spiegelman BM. The role of exercise and PGC1alpha in inflammation and chronic disease. Nature. 2008 Jul 24;454(7203):463-9. doi: 10.1038/nature07206. PMID: 18650917; PMCID: PMC2587487.
Prepare a less than 1-minute video to explain to an adult in 5th grade plain English what chronic inflammations are and how exercise can greatly reduce their occurrence.