WHAT ARE YOU HERE FOR?
Recruitment
Researchers who need student researchers to help them in their research projects and are interested in using the platform would have to fill in a google form, providing relevant details.
Application
Students who are interested in research would have to fill in a google form, submitting important details.
INTRODUCTION
The Mentorship Program is an initiative by AMSA Malaysia as a registry to expose members to research opportunities opened by independent researchers. Through this program, AMSA aims to be a means of connection through which members can take up research offered by researchers, and vice versa if researchers want to take up members for their research.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
The 2 criteria determining the participant’s eligibility in certain research papers would be their research experience and time commitment. Applicants will be given a list of recruiting research projects tailored based on their research experience and time commitment to choose from. The details of the research listed include the topic, paper type, study design, jobscope, applicants needed, credentials, and their respective researchers in charge. Applicants can only choose (1) research project offered. Upon choosing their preferred research of interest, the 1st step of matching is that the criteria that researchers specify must match the applicant’s criteria in order for the application and recruitment to match. The 2nd step would be that the applicant must read and sign a consent form explicitly stating their obligation towards their responsibilities and their role in the research. After a successful matching, the researcher will be given the applicant’s contact, and vice versa. Follow-ups and feedback via a google form would be made after a month to check on the research project. Promotions would also be made during that time.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Researchers
- Researchers must be truthful to the best of their knowledge when filling in details during their application for the Mentorship Program.
- The research offered by recruiters has to have received ethical approval and is eligible to conduct.
- Researchers must not find anyone once AMSA Malaysia has successfully matchmade their research project with participant(s). With which, the researcher must inform AMSA Malaysia to remove their research projects off the list.
- Researchers must not pick and choose the participants paired to them.
Participants
- Participants must be truthful to the best of their knowledge when filling in details during their application for the Mentorship Program.
- The research chosen by the applicants will be their own responsibility. This decision cannot be changed once decided via email.
- Participants must reply to the initial email containing the research topics and details sent to them. Failure of which may lead to their exclusion from the program.
- Participants must fill in the consent form. Failure to do so may lead to expulsion from the Mentorship program. By filling in the consent form, participants are made aware of their obligations and responsibilities involved in research.
- In the initial email sent to the participants, they are not allowed, in any way, to disclose the details of the research project to anyone outside of the Mentorship program.
- Participants are not allowed to pair themselves manually with any research projects conducted by researchers in the Mentorship Program.
- Those under a current commitment to a research project matched using the mentorship program are not allowed to apply for a new one until said research is done.
- Participants failing to comply with the above may be excluded from the program and blacklisted.
AMSA
- AMSA Malaysia can only be held responsible for the matching process of finding a suitable applicant for research projects offered by recruiters. There will be no responsibilities held against AMSA after successful/unsuccessful pairing.
- AMSA Malaysia is not, in any way, responsible for the performance or work ethics of the applicants applying or are successfully recruited.
- AMSA Malaysia is not involved in the research project conducted by recruiters, and has no ties to any aspect of the research.
- Once the contact details are handed off, AMSA Malaysia no longer has any responsibilities towards the recruiter(s), applicant(s), or the research itself.
- AMSA Malaysia reserves the right to disregard and/or blacklist a recruiter who fails to submit the relevant details, or if their research is deemed ineligible.
- AMSA Malaysia reserves the right to disregard and/or blacklist any applicant who fails to submit the relevant details required, or are deemed ineligible to apply.
- Any party who exploits the system will be blacklisted without exception.
Blacklisting
- Applicants/recruiters blacklisted are permanently banned from using the mentorship program platform.