Clinical Survey Research, Methodology Expert – Physician/PhD
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Clinical survey expert refining physician-focused healthcare market research surveys for Mercor. Translating medical expertise into accurate questionnaires supporting AI system training.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and refine physician-facing surveys across 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 projects focused on training and enhancing AI systems
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 (HCP) 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
- Previous experience developing surveys targeting physicians, specialists, or other healthcare professionals
- Familiarity with 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
- Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time
Benefits:
- Ongoing collaboration across multiple healthcare research projects over the coming months
- Fully remote work
- Flexible schedule / work completed on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
- Competitive pay
- Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers
- Reasonable accommodations upon request














