Joseph Akem Agbama

I have developed essential skills necessary for conducting research projects. I am seeking a clinical research position where I can refine my abilities as a researcher, focusing on coordinating, managing, and monitoring studies in adherence to established guidelines and good clinical practices. My goal is to further elevate my proficiency in contributing to the advancement of knowledge critical to enhancing patient outcomes.

• Trauma
• blood conservative techniques
• surgical critical care,
• fluid therapy in surgery

Undergraduate Research Fellow   

Department of Community Medicine/Public
health, University of Calabar, Nigeria                                                                                                                        12/ 2021- 01/2023

• The College of medical sciences, University of Calabar, formed the Department of community health Research program to introduce medical students to the basics of clinical research by helping them understand medical literature and improve their ability to review or critique a research paper critically.
• Led a team that conducted a cross-sectional descriptive study on the prevalence and factors affecting patient satisfaction among diabetes service users at the University of Calabar teaching hospital.
  -Contribution: Literature search, Questionnaire creation, Data collection and analysis, and Interpretation of results.
• During this period, I joined a group of students to form the research hub-An innovation to help medical students in third world countries develop a research interest and understand the basics of research and how to carry out research work successfully. In the past 6 months, we have been able to publish about 3 articles in peer reviewed journal looking at medical students perspective on research,currently I and some other members are working on a manuscript

Department of  pharmacology, University of Calabar                                                                                                    06/ 2019 - 08/ 2019

• .As part of the training in pharmacology, I had an 8 week hands on research rotation in the Pharmacology research laboratory and the Animal operating room.
• Led a group that experimented the effect of drugs affecting the Autonomic nervous system on GI motility and results were plotted on graphs.
• Studied on Principles involving use of and care of laboratory animals used in research
• Culminated in me having a distinction honors in Pharmacology

Volunteer

Cross River State ministry of Health/covid 19
management team                                                                                                                                                                           08/2020 -11/ 2020

Primary Focus: Community involvement/outreach

• Conducted health education on the mode of acquisition of the disease and how Individuals can prevent it using basic health maintenance strategies.
• Assisted as the first line of care in a county health center for people with febrile illnesses so that appropriate testing could be carried out and positive cases referred appropriately.
  
• Monitored and supervised vaccine storage, use, management, and disposal in the health center
  
• Collected Data on the number of people tested, those vaccinated, number of cases and mortality, plus those who recovered so that it can be sent to the state epidemiology department and national center for Disease Control.

Academic tutor

Cross River State medical student
association(CRIMSA) Academic tutorials                                                                                                     01/2021 - 01/2023
calabar, Nigeria

Primary Focus :Medical education

• Served as a member of the academic committee for five years, then secretary for a
  year before becoming the chairman during my last year in medical school.
• Organized extra tutorials for medical students to teach complex concepts and discuss cases seen in the ward.
• Introduced case-based learning in medicine rather than the conventional subject-based learning experienced in classrooms-This resulted in a 95% pass rate in medicine OSCE examination in medical school.
• Led a team that created a Google-based drive containing recorded teaching sessions, the past questions for examinations, and the best answers.
• Organized weekly quizzes for medical students based on materials studied during the week to enhance active learning and retention of concepts

• Cochrane Systematic Review

Cochrane Nigeria(July, 2024)

• Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Research

National Institute of Health (July, 2024)

• ECFMG Certificate (February, 2024)
• Writing in the sciences

Stanford university(September 2023)

• OET Certificate (August , 2023)
• Advanced Trauma Management for Emergency Physicians.

Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians(March, 2023)

• Essien,E.A.,Akpegah,G.K.,Ado,I.B.& Agbama,J.A.. (2023, Jul). Patient-Centred care: Current practice and Recommendations for Nigeria. Public health Challenges.
  Pub Status: Submitted

• Total EP/N Scholarship for outstanding students
• Second runner up in the 3rd edition of African Organization for Standardization(ARSO) essay competition
• Best graduating student in Federal Government college set of 2014

• Trying new foods/recipes
• Travelling and visiting new places
• Playing and watching football
• Running and cycling