The Medical Education Content Manager is responsible for the development of risk, patient safety, and grant-related clinical education content. This includes conducting literature searches, completing education needs assessments, and writing/developing different types of education related materials. Additionally, this role contributes to the creation of evidence-based, fair-balanced clinical content for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals. This role collaborates with grant and business development and operational teams within the company, as well as working with national thought-leaders and commercial supporter contacts as the clinical point person responsible for creating educational content.
The Medical Education Content Manager can approach clinical issues from multiple perspectives, synthesizing and summarizing data and preparing educational materials to increase the knowledge, competence, and skills of a variety of healthcare professional audiences. This role is crucial to the timely development of accurate, evidence-based grant submissions and educational deliverables that address identified practice gaps and key educational needs among clinician learners.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Content Development
- Review and collaborate with other content writers to ensure that content is clinically accurate and incorporates recommendations reflecting current best practices in the field, as needed.
- Maintain current knowledge and awareness of best practices in Risk Management, Patient Safety, and Quality Improvement for the purpose of serving as internal quality review for ensuring compliance.
- Develop original continuing education content for healthcare professionals including:
- Review and synthesis of relevant contemporary literature and legal documents.
- Create PowerPoints, video scripts, articles, monographs, simulations and/or eLearning modules that reflect current best practices.
- Present content via webinars, live presentations, or other formats as requested by the company.
- Develop learning evaluation tools and assessments appropriate to the education delivered.
- Contribute to the development of innovative educational activity offerings which incorporate adult learning principles.
- Ensure programs and resources are developed and delivered in adherence to all appropriate Accreditation Standards.
Content Management
- Manage freelance writers for needs assessment development as necessary.
- Manage faculty experts for continuing education/patient education activities:
- Identification/recruitment.
- Planning/review of activity content based on identified gaps and target audience needs.
- Adherence to accreditation criteria
- Research, write/create, review, and provide focus to fair balanced, evidence-based, clinically focused PowerPoint slide presentations, online publications, journal supplements, and case studies across a wide range of therapeutic areas.
- Write and review pre-/post-test and survey questions and provide clinical context for outcomes data generated from CME/CNE activities.
- Review participant invitation materials and Web copy for clinical accuracy.
- Adhere to all internal and external project-related deadlines.
- Assist in the management of freelancers assigned to tasks within a project under the employee’s responsibility when necessary.
- Keep current with published literature in key therapeutic areas; conduct literature searches and interpret statistical data and clinical study findings.
- Ensure that all clinical education materials are well organized, scientifically accurate, and in compliance with applicable company policies, accreditation standards, and industry guidelines.
- Participate in the writing and editing of abstracts and manuscripts for meeting presentations and/or publication in peer-reviewed journals.
Grant Development
- Participate in educational strategy planning for clinical education grant proposals.
- Provide clinical insight and identify professional practice gaps supported within published medical literature.
- Contribute to the design of educational platforms that align with topic, target audience needs/preferences, and available budget.
- Write educational needs assessments.
- Provide content-related information for grant submissions, letters of intent, and requests for more information.
- Attend supporter meetings with grant development as needed.
- Support evolving business needs, as applicable.
Education, Experience, Competencies & Values
- Advanced degree (doctorate or master’s level) in a medical, nursing or scientific discipline, required.
- A minimum of 3 years of experience serving in the capacity of a medical writer, educator, or content developer (or higher-level position) in the continuing education, pharmaceutical, or healthcare industry.
- A minimum of 3 years in healthcare risk management, patient safety or quality improvement, including interface with legal, claims, compliance, patient safety, and ethics.
- Clinical experience in direct patient care (RN, Nurse Practitioner, Physician’s Assistant) strongly preferred.
- Experience in the development of grant proposals for continuing medical education activities, including the identification of practice gaps and educational needs, is strongly preferred.
- CHCP, NPD-BC, or other related certification preferred; CPHRM strongly preferred.
- Ability to work efficiently and independently, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and juggle multiple projects/reprioritize work as needed.
- Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with others in a remote environment.
- Strong drive to maintain and expand knowledge and skills related to medical education.
Base salary range is $85,110 - $115,150. Individual compensation packages are based on a variety of factors that are unique to each candidate including location, skill set, experience, qualifications and education.
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