Career Pathways and Tips
This section includes articles related to the building the career towards public health. The concept behind these blog posts are mainly for sharing knowledge and empowering each other in the community through peer support method.
Preparation For MPH Admission For NIPSOM
সরকারি ভাবে MPH করা যায় NIPSOM & BSMMU থেকে। এ ছাড়াও DMC, RMC, SSMC তে কিছু সিট আছে শুধু মাত্র কমিউনিটি মেডিসিনের জন্য। কোর্স সম্পর্কে ও চান্স পাবার জন্য ডিটেইলস কিছু তথ্য শেয়ার করছি ১.সিলেবাস~ পরীক্ষার সিলেবাসই একদম ফিক্সড থাকেনা। বিগত প্রশ্নের আলোকে সবাই একটা মোটামুটি আইডিয়া নিয়ে পড়াশুনা করলে
Top 5 soft skills to nurture as a public health professional
Soft skills are one of the important criteria for a successful public health career along with a degree and hands-on training. Soft skills are mainly a combination of personality traits and social attitudes that allow people to communicate efficiently, collaborate, and successfully resolve conflict. Irrespective of work and position, here
Time management hacks: an important aspect of work-life balance
Effective time management is critical for maintaining a good balance between work and personal life. In this competitive day, understanding time management may assist any careerist in achieving their ultimate objective without putting their own life in trouble. In this write-up, some special tips for managing time efficiently are discussed
Virtue of Professionalism
Professionalism is ones’ attitude, work ethics, integrity, and productivity in her/his workplace. Virtue of professionalism is not something earned. It is a skill through which anyone can earn any professional target. To keep harmony in the workplace, to be a productive professional, and to be in the leadership charge, professionalism
Courses to enrich your skills as public health professional
Nowadays, a public health professional must have additional skills and expertise along with an academic degree. Different advanced level training enables to enhance professional skills and career growth. Some of the courses are: STATA/SPSS/R/Python It’s extremely important to learn this advanced analytical software especially for those who want to work
Basic tips for avoiding plagiarism
In public health, for sharing their scientific finding with the world, it’s important for the public health researcher to write independently without any plagiarism. Plagiarism is using someone’s work or idea without giving proper acknowledgment which is considered a crime in the research arena.Here are some easy tips to avoid
Tips on carrying out literature review
Good research work requires an extensive literature review. Whether working for the most innovative topic or the generic literature review is essential. Furthermore, the introductory work of research is a literature review that gives insight about a study topic, factors associated with a certain topic, problem identification, gaps, and future
Benefits of teamwork
Teamwork is described as collaborative work with a shared objective and emphasizing a particular goal while facilitating open dialogue and problem-solving. Teams can also collaborate to create strategies and enhance their performance towards achieving their targets. Here are some basic benefits of teamwork- 1. Increase efficiency: Teamwork makes it possible
Conducting a training session for your career
For me, teaching is the hardest job but I think we all have to do that academically or professionally at some point in our life. In my professional career of a year, I learnt a lot from my supervisors and I believe this learning will continue as I work more.
Basic tips for writing a cover letter
A cover letter is a document sent along with the resume to provide additional information about one’s skills and experiences to an employer. Cover letters are used to convince the employers on why an applicant is qualified for the job. Here are some tips on writing a cover letter: Get
Working under pressure: a common phenomenon in public health space
Today we will discuss an important topic “working under pressure” which you will experience often in your public health career. So, let us see how to work under pressure 1. Prepare a plan: Before starting working in a particular activity, have a team meeting and plan your deliverables. Although, an individual
Mentorship-A unique professional bonding
Mentorship is a mutual relationship which is the key drive of being successful mostly in a research or public health career. For an effective outcome from a mentorship program, we need multiple personal investments that include time, passion, and dedication. Today we will discuss few important tips for both mentor
Kick starting public health career for the freshers
Most of the time after graduation everyone rushes to search for appropriate jobs. Everyone gets frustrated when they are not being called for a job even dropping CVs multiple times. The job market is getting extremely competitive in the Public health field or any other corporate field. Likewise, job postings
Core competencies that a public health career needs
Apart from the education degree, public health area broadly needs a few more qualities such as core competencies. National and international organizations make these criteria mandatory when they want to select their team members for a public health project. Some of the basic competencies are; critical thinking/problem solving, oral/written communications,
An internship experience at icddr,b
An internship is one of the best ways to gather experiences before approaching a job. International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (Icddr,b) offers internship opportunities that are extremely beneficial for the freshers to start their public health career. Adiba Iqbal, who was the intern of Dr. Kamrun N. Koly
Career guidelines for the freshers in public health
This post is for the freshers who plan to aspire to a career in public health or who are still confused about choosing the right career path for themselves. Decision making After graduation students suffer from indecision about which career path to choose and face extreme peer pressures on this issue.
