Internship – Database (Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging)

Duration

12 months

Internships

The IAEA accepts a limited number of interns each year. The internships are awarded to persons studying towards a university degree or who have recently received a degree (see Internship web pages for further details).

The purpose of the programme is:

• To provide interns with the opportunity to gain practical work experience in line with their studies or interests, and expose them to the work of the IAEA and the United Nations as a whole;
• To benefit the IAEA’s programmes through the assistance of qualified students specialized in various professional fields.
• The duration of an internship is normally not less than three months and not more than one year.

Organizational Setting 

The Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications implements the IAEA’s Major Programme 2, “Nuclear Techniques for Development and Environmental Protection”. This Major Programme comprises individual programmes on food and agriculture, human health, water resources, environment and radiation technologies. These programmes are supported by laboratories in Seibersdorf, Monaco and Vienna. The Major Programme’s objective is to enhance the capacity of Member States to meet basic human needs and to assess and manage the marine and terrestrial environments through the use of nuclear and isotopic techniques in sustainable development programmes.

The Division of Human Health is organized into four Sections whose objectives are to enhance the capabilities of Member States to address needs related to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of health problems through the development and application of nuclear techniques within a framework of quality assurance.

The Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging Section’s primary objective is to enhance Member States’ capabilities to use nuclear medicine and other imaging technologies efficiently, mainly, but not limited to cancer and cardiac diseases, and for undertaking related basic and clinical research. To achieve those goals, special attention is given to the preparation of educational resources, guidelines and guidance documents.

Main Purpose

As an intern in the Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging section, the incumbent will learn about our activities in project management, coordinated research projects and selected consultancy meetings. The intern collaborates on:

• Development and maintenance of NMDI’s databases
• Collection and cleaning of NMDI’s databases
• Design data modelling processes and creating algorithms and predictive models for data analysis
• Design of data storage

The intern contributes to explore NMDI datasets using statistical and visualization techniques to gain insights, identify patterns, and understand the underlying structure of the data, and to search in the medical literature to perform analysis of the experimental data, prepare graphs, determine trends, in different functions applied to medicine, as well as perform analytical curve fitting and present the summary in a form of a report.

Functions / Key Results Expected

• Participate in research projects conducted by the NMDI, handling the databases as well as the icloud based system.
• Perform analysis of the research data, prepare graphs, determine trends, perform analytical curve fitting, and present the summary in a form of a report.
• Participate in cost-analysis of investment in medical imaging technology studies.

Qualifications and Experience

• University degree in Data science, statistics, data management or other related discipline.
• Proficient in PowerPoint, Excel, World, EndNote, email client systems, and internet search engines.
• Knowledge of data collection, analysis, and presentation.
• Experience with statistical concepts, software, literature searching, and current research methods.
• Knowledge of Kafka, Stata, Python, or other statistical software for data science.
• Knowledge of statistical analysis.

Applicant Eligibility

• Candidates must be a minimum of 20 years of age and have completed at least three years of full-time studies at a university or equivalent institution towards the completion of a first degree.
• Candidates may apply up to one year after the completion of a bachelor’s, master’s or doctorate degree.
• Candidates must not have previously participated in the IAEA’s internship programme.
• Good written and spoken English essential; fluency in any other IAEA official language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish or Russian) an asset.
• Candidates must attach two signed letters of recommendation to their application.