Applications are now invited from Cambridge medical students (currently in year 2) for a paid Internship in the University of Cambridge Primary Care Unit, in the Department of Public Health & Primary Care. The Internship will be two months in duration during the summer of 2018, with a flexible start-date, and the intern will be paid £1,500 in total for the two months. There is also a budget for research expenses.
The intern will join the Cancer team led by Dr Fiona Walter, and become immersed in one or more of the ongoing studies, funded by Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, MRC and the NIHR. There will be opportunities to take part in data collection, analysis and interpretation, as well as writing up research and contributing to publications. The week-to-week duties and opportunities will be agreed with Dr Walter in the month before starting the internship.
Sponsored by the National Institute for Health Research School for Primary Care Research
About this internship
There is ONE full-time vacancy designed specifically for second year Cambridge medical students. The internship will take place between years 2 and 3 during the summer of 2018.
Location of internship: Strangeways Research Laboratory, 2 Wort’s Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN
Person Specification: Applicants should be studying medicine, in the second year of their course at Cambridge. Applicants should be able to demonstrate a strong work ethic, excellent communication skills and written skills.
How to apply: Interested students are advised to contact Dr Robbie Duschinsky and include a copy of their CV with the e-mail. The closing date is 17.00, 20th April 2018. The vacancy is classified as Health & Social Care.
About the Cancer Group, Primary Care Unit
The Cancer Group is part of the Primary Care Unit within the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge, one of Europe’s premier university departments of population health sciences.
Dr Fiona Walter
Headed by Dr Fiona Walter, the Cancer Group is a team of multi-disciplinary researchers whose research focuses on cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis and follow-up, mainly in the community and primary care setting.
Interested in all cancer types, the group’s current work focuses on understanding patient pathways and interventions to improve diagnosis of the skin cancer melanoma, oesophageal, gastric, brain, urological and gynaecological cancers. The group is interested in developing strategies to prevent or detect cancer earlier using new biomarkers, technological devices, smartphones and clinical decision support. It has new work using risk stratified approaches and genetic advances into primary care cancer detection, whilst its flagship international research and education programme, the CanTest Collaborative, funded by Cancer Research UK’s first Catalyst award, launched in April 2017.
During the course of its research, members work closely with other groups across the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre and the Eastern region. They also work with a number of universities across the UK and internationally, and have a parallel programme of research on cancer detection, diagnosis and follow-up care with the University of Melbourne, Australia.
The Cancer Group is at the Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge.
The intern will be based with the Cancer Group at Strangeways Research Laboratory, 2 Wort’s Causeway, Cambridge CB1 8RN
More information: contact Lynda Haines, General Practice Education Group
Image: Dr Jon Ferdinand at the Primary Care Unit