I agree with Trisha - I am in a temporary research post at the moment
and am very interested in seeing what sort of jobs that may be
applicable to my skills out there! I also agree with the proposal of
using the subject title more efficiently.
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Research Fellow/CROPS Project Manager
Evaluation Unit, Breast Test Wales, Cardiff, UK (01222 787820)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trisha Greenhalgh [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 10:11 AM
> To: 'TreforR'; Evidence Based Health; gp-uk
> Cc: medical-ed; mersenne(medicine); nukop-health; psych-genetic;
> psychiatrict-nursing
> Subject: RE: Apologies for cross posting...
>
> My own view is that job ads in academic EBM are entirely appropriate
> for the EBM list (and I speak as one who is not looking for a new
> job!). Many academic researchers are on short term contracts and
> don't get to hear about appropriate posts because the cost of
> advertising in the national press is so prohibitive. I personally
> have successfully recruited people through this list, thereby saving
> probably thousands of pounds for more productive aspects of the
> project.
>
> The problem as I see it is not the volume of spam about jobs, but the
> lack of declarative titles. If I could see IN THE TITLE that this was
> a job ad for a post in Manchester I would trash it without opening.
> So why not say people can advertise jobs if and only if they declare
> in the title (a) that it is a job ad (b) what the broad field is
> (e.g. stats, soc sci, informatics, etc) and (c) what town or city it's
> in.
>
> Why not pilot this suggestion for a period of 3 months and review?
>
> Discuss more...
>
>
> Dr Trish Greenhalgh
>
> Senior lecturer in primary health care
> Unit for Evidence-Based Practice and Policy
> Joint Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences
> Royal Free and University College London Schools of Medicine
> Whittington Hospital
> London N19 5NF
>
> Direct line tel: + 44 (0) 171 288 5731
> Personal Assistant (Marcia Rigby): + 44 (0) 171 288 3246
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>
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>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trefor Roscoe [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 21 July 1998 22:43
> To: Evidence Based Health; gp-uk
> Cc: Medical Journal Discussion Club; ebp-wisdom; BHIA-L; Evidence
> Based Health; Wisdom List; public-health; wisdom;
> health-services-research; L-Soft list server at Brown University
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> mersenne(medicine); nukop-health; psych-genetic; psychiatrict-nursing;
> public-health; sport-med
> Subject: Apologies for cross posting...
>
> This is a very cross posting, in fact I am BLAZING.
>
> I am getting very fed up with the use of academic medical lists to
> advertise
> esoteric jobs in various posts. Why do the advertisers think we are in
> need?
> I may have serious reservations about my current post, but if I wish
> to look
> for another job I will do just that, look for it, not expect it to
> come to
> me. Recent postings on the academic lists that I am involved in are
> getting
> more and more off subject. Tonight I have had to wade through about a
> dozen.
>
> I got flamed quite badly last year for suggesting that I had a product
> (for
> all of £10) that might be of use to the wider academic community . I
> was
> told in no uncertain terms that academic lists were not the place for
> adverts. So what is the diference between that and adverts for posts
> in the
> social sciences or as research assisitants? Spam is spam if it is
> unsolicited advertising even though it may have the best intentions.
> The
> fact that the post is academic is frankly, academic.
>
> Please can we define some rules on spam. What is the evidence that
> doctors
> in the USA need to know about research assistant posts in Manchester?
>
> Discuss
>
> Trefor
>
> Note lack of sig to avoid advertising
>
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> As usual, apologies for cross posting
>
>
> University of Manchester
>
> National Primary Care Research and Development Centre
>
>
> Clinical Senior Research Fellow - General Practice (full time or part
> time)
>
> Salary Scale: stlg44,780 -stlg57,800
>
> 5 year rolling contract
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>
> This large multi-disciplinary research centre is at the leading edge
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> We wish to appoint an experienced general practice researcher to
> contribute flexibly to one or more of our Programme areas.
>
> Applicants should have an established track record of research in
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>
>
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>
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