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27 Jul, 2010

[Sweden] PhD Student Position in Medical Sciences with an Orientation Towards Dermatology and Venereology

Posted by: In: PhD|Postgraduate|Scholarships in Europe

The Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Divisions of Dermatology and Venerology has an opening for a PhD student position within a multidisciplinary project involving statisticians as well as medical and economic scientists. The project, Psoriasis in Sweden – a health economic analysis, makes use of register data to look at the common skin disease psoriasis within a health economic and epidemiological context. The PhD candidate is expected to collaborate with the members of the respective teams while developing relevant statistical methods. For instance, the project will look on health economic outcomes related to different psoriasis treatments. Moreover, the PhD student will also work at developing novel methods to analyze registry data. This project is part of the Umeå University Industrial Graduate School and special courses are included.

Qualifications
Applicants must 1) hold or anticipate receiving within the next months a University degree equivalent to a European University Master degree in the field of statistics or equivalent (240 hp) or 2) have 120 Swedish (old) credits (Swe. poäng; corresponding to 180 ECTS credits) of higher education studies in statistics, economy or equivalent taken before July 1, 2007. Applicants should have a high interest in this project and be willing to take on a scientific challenge. The multidisciplinary nature of this project requires excellent personal collaboration capabilities. Experiences in the fields of analyzing registry data and psoriasis are desirable.

Special eligibility
In order to be accepted to doctoral education, it is required that the applicant has the following:

  1. necessary knowledge from university higher education or corresponding education, and/or
  2. special professional experience that is assessed in relation to the postgraduate education area,
  3. necessary English language skills, both in writing and in speaking.

Evaluation of these skills is made by having the intended PhD student present his/her research plan in English for the department’s designated postgraduate education group.

Further information
For more information, contact Marcus Schmitt-Egenolf, +46 90-785 28 75, marcus.schmitt-egenolf@dermven.umu.se Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Divisions of Dermatology and Venereology or Ingrid Svensson, +46 90 786 74 02, +46 70 588 10 27, ingrid.svensson@stat.umu.se Department of Statistics.

Start date: September 1, 2010.

Further information
www.umu.se/medfak/utbildning/forskarutb/
handbok/Forskarutbildningshandboken_eng.pdf

Union information is available from SACO +46 (0)90-786 53 65, SEKO civil +46 (0)90-786 52 96 and ST +46 (0)90-786 54 31.

The procedure for recruitment for the position is in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance (chapt. 12, 2 §) and the decision regarding the position cannot be appealed.

Application procedure
The application should be in English and should include a cover letter with a brief statement of research experience and interests, two reference names with contact details (phone numbers and e-mail addresses) and a CV.

Documents sent electronically should be in PDF format.

Your complete application, marked with reference number 313-676-10, should be sent to jobb@umu.se (state the reference number as subject) to arrive August 16 at the latest.

Application Deadline : 16 August 2010

Web Link

www.umu.se/medfak/utbildning/forskarutb/
handbok/Forskarutbildningshandboken_eng.pdf



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1 Response to "[Sweden] PhD Student Position in Medical Sciences with an Orientation Towards Dermatology and Venereology"

1 | Gedion Birhanu

August 8th, 2010 at 5:04 PM

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