Clinical Survey Research & Methodology Expert – Physician, PhD

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create, develop, and enhance surveys aimed at physicians across a range of diseases and therapeutic fields.

• Assess survey questions for clinical precision, medical relevance, clarity, and suitability for physician audiences.

• Convert intricate clinical concepts and research goals into clearly structured, unbiased survey questions.

• Utilize market research methodologies to enhance questionnaire design, response options, survey flow, and data integrity.

• Analyze surveys for clinical terminology, treatment pathways, diagnostic criteria, patient management practices, and therapeutic significance.

• Work in partnership with research teams to integrate feedback and ensure consistency across survey initiatives.

• Offer expert recommendations to enhance survey validity, physician involvement, and overall research quality.

• Assist Mercor projects that train and improve AI systems utilizing human expertise.

⛳️ Requirements

• Possess an advanced clinical or scientific degree: MD, DO, PhD, PharmD, or an equivalent qualification in medicine, clinical research, or a closely related field.

• Have a robust understanding of specific diseases, therapeutic areas, treatment guidelines, and real-world clinical decision-making.

• Show demonstrated experience in designing, writing, reviewing, or validating healthcare professional (HCP) surveys.

• Be familiar with questionnaire design, survey logic, response scales, question bias, and research best practices.

• Have experience collaborating with pharmaceutical companies, healthcare market research agencies, life sciences consulting firms, or clinical research organizations.

• Exhibit strong written communication skills with the ability to translate complex medical information into clear, actionable survey questions.

• Have over 3 years of experience in healthcare market research, clinical survey development, or related research activities.

• Previous experience creating surveys directed at physicians, specialists, or other healthcare professionals.

• Be knowledgeable about Qualtrics, Forsta, Decipher, Alchemer, or SurveyMonkey.

• Have experience in therapeutic-area-specific market research, including treatment journeys, prescribing behavior, clinical decision-making, and unmet medical needs.

• Have experience supporting multiple research studies across various disease areas.

• Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT sponsorship; Mercor cannot support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates.

🏝️ Benefits

• Continuous collaboration across several healthcare research projects in the upcoming months.

• Fully remote work environment.

• Flexible schedule; work can be accomplished according to your own timing.

• Projects may be prolonged, shortened, or concluded early based on needs and performance.

• Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise according to services rendered.

• Competitive compensation.

• Opportunity to work alongside leading researchers.

• Reasonable accommodations available upon request.