Application is hereby open for an internship opportunity. Click to apply.
REQUIREMENTS
Requirements/Specification for Medical Journalism Internship Programme.
- Applicants must have obtained a degree or diploma or certificate or are enrolled in Journalism or any Medical Science Program.
- Applicants with health sector or journalism experience is an added advantage
- Ability to use Microsoft 365 package
- Good oral and especially written communications skills
- Have an idea about print and online publishing or otherwise willing to undergo training for such purpose.
- Applicant must be passionate about Medical Journalism
- Applicants must be willing to learn and commit to the standards set forth by the Medical Journalists Association-Ghana (MJA-Ghana) and the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) for medical journalism.
- Highly organised, detail-oriented and able to manage time
- Applicant must be ready and able to commit about 25hours/week
- Interest in analysing policies in the health or medical field.
- Positive attitude and an ability to work well both in groups or diverse group of individuals and individuals.
- Ability to work well under pressure and with shifting deadlines and priorities
- Ability to handle multiple assignments in a timely manner
- Ability to analyse data and make sound, logical conclusions or be willing to be trained for such purpose.
INTERNSHIP OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of the internship program, interns will be mentored hence expected to:
- Have acquired good writing and scientific data management skills
- Have developed good analytical and appraisal skills
- Be able to write well researched journalistic work
- Be familiar with medical journalistic work and health reporting.
- Have developed experience working as a medical journalist and independently managing an online news portal.
- Gain membership with the Medical Journalist Association of Ghana and the World Federation of Science Journalists.
WHAT IS EXPECTED OF YOU AS AN INTERN
i. Candidates selected for the internship will be expected to work at least 20hours per week usually remotely. He/she should be able to report, write or edit at the level expected of someone in his or her professional job and work with editors.
ii. You will be required to submit at least 5-10 journalists’ works or stories each of 1000 words or more per week.
iii. You will be expected to be available for scheduled training including data management protocols and software usage.
iv. Expected to work diligently, to make and submit brief weekly or monthly reports on your work progress as well as to periodically meet with your assigned supervisors.
INTERNSHIP DURATION:
Four (4) months.
WHY SHOULD I DO THIS INTERNSHIP?
For training, and experience in health and medical journalism.
TYPE OF MEDIA ORGANISATION
Mass media and or Online medical/health media platform/portal.
IMPLEMENTATION ORGANISATION
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Thursday October 13, 2022 at 23:00 UTC (11:00pm Ghana/Accra local time)
INTERNSHIP START DATE: October 19, 2022
NOTE: Selected applicants will be contacted within two(2) weeks after the schedule deadline. Frequently check your e-mail including spam box for updates and or further communications.
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MedHealth.info Medical Journalism internship programme
Instruction:
This application is in two phases,
a. Phase 1 – Submission of all the necessary information required including biodata.
b. Phase 2 – Submission of Curriculum Vitae (CV). Only pdf or word docx file is allowed.
- After clicking on the image above, complete all that is required and click on ”submit” to submit your application.
- After submission of phase one (that’s after submitting your application), pay attention carefully to the information display. Follow the link and instruction to upload and submit your curriculum Vitae (CV) as required. OR come back here to follow this link to ”Submit your CV).
