Dr Muhammad,

I am not a neurosurgeon, but I can tell you that your most attractive points are two; your motives for research and your young age. Do not underestimate 2 very strong points. What you need is to define a specific point for research based on problems you are challenging during your practice.

I could not see your attached CV.

My best wishes,

Since you are looking for research positions, you should elaborate more on your research experience. Generally, people want to know what you can do to be able to see how you might be useful in their research endeavors. You could include points about what exact projects you worked on, what exact skills you utilized and gained in that experience e.g. what experiments you did etc. Being hard-working and dedicated is, obviously, important, but these are rather intangible qualities which are difficult to evaluate for someone who is busy and has maybe few minutes to glance over your e-mail and CV. So my recommendation would be: 1) elaborate on your research experience and skills in your CV. Your CV should be targeted on where exactly you are applying/what you want to do/what you can offer to researchers so that they would be interested to hire you; 2) do a good research on programs/individual researchers whom you are sending your CV to. Look for potential mentors who are likely to understand your specific situation - MD or MD/PhD researchers, clinician scientists. Identify what their interests and research work is about and what are the exact skills you can offer them and send targeted application. Given that you have sent so many emails and gotten no opportunity indicates that your applications were likely not very targeted. 3) I suggest you also include your personal statement and a letter of recommendation from someone who supervised your research work and is willing to recommend you. 4) overall, securing a paid research position is very difficult nowadays, especially for an MD. If that is possible for you and there are no paid offers, I would look into volunteer possibilities first with a prospect of gaining experience and skills to then move on and be more interesting as an applicant for a paid position.

Dear Alothman,

First I congratulate you for your motivation of the research. The following important point must be in your mind. There are often times when added research would be required to make it easier for a study to go forward. Your research plans could include an analysis of the methods of study that could work in the future and what points about a topic could be reviewed in such studies. The recommendations that are incorporated into your paper can certainly be important to your work. Be certain when writing your paper that you have clear recommendations that are easy to follow and can be utilized right and are not overly complicated or tough to use in some way.

Regards.