Clinical Survey Research Expert – Physician, PhD
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Clinical survey expert refining physician-focused healthcare research surveys for Mercor. Improving medical accuracy, methodology, and data quality for AI training projects.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and refine physician-facing surveys across various diseases and therapeutic areas
- Review survey questions for clinical accuracy, medical relevance, clarity, and appropriateness for physician audiences
- Translate complex clinical concepts and research objectives into well-structured, unbiased survey questions
- Apply market research methodologies to improve questionnaire design, response options, survey flow, and data quality
- Evaluate surveys for clinical terminology, treatment pathways, diagnostic criteria, patient management practices, and therapeutic relevance
- Collaborate with research teams to incorporate feedback and maintain consistency across survey projects
- Provide expert recommendations to improve survey validity, physician engagement, and overall research quality
- Support Mercor projects focused on training and enhancing AI systems using human expertise
Requirements:
- Advanced clinical or scientific degree: MD, DO, PhD, PharmD, or equivalent qualification in medicine, clinical research, or a closely related discipline
- Strong understanding of specific diseases, therapeutic areas, treatment guidelines, and real-world clinical decision-making
- Demonstrated experience designing, writing, reviewing, or validating healthcare professional surveys
- Familiarity with questionnaire design, survey logic, response scales, question bias, and research best practices
- Experience working with pharmaceutical companies, healthcare market research agencies, life sciences consulting firms, or clinical research organisations
- Strong written communication skills and ability to translate complex medical information into clear, actionable survey questions
- Familiarity with platforms such as Qualtrics, Forsta, Decipher, Alchemer, or SurveyMonkey
- Experience in therapeutic-area-specific market research, including treatment journeys, prescribing behaviour, clinical decision-making, and unmet medical needs
- Experience supporting multiple research studies across different disease areas
- Ability to work as an independent contractor
- Must not be an H1-B or STEM OPT candidate
- Preferred: 3+ years of experience in healthcare market research, clinical survey development, or related research activities
- Preferred: Previous experience developing surveys targeting physicians, specialists, or other healthcare professionals
Benefits:
- Ongoing collaboration across multiple healthcare research projects over the coming months
- Fully remote work
- Flexible schedule / work on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
- Competitive pay
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Opportunity to participate in multiple healthcare research projects
- Opportunity to contribute to meaningful healthcare and life sciences research
- Referral program: earn up to $800 for each successful referral (referral limits apply)
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