Featured Careers in Medical Product Development

DynaMed^TM is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use at the point-of-care. It is ranked highest among ten online clinical resources in a new study in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. The DynaMed team is supported by an editorial team of physicians, multidisciplinary health care professionals, scientists, medical writers and librarians, as well as a network of over 1,500 practicing clinicians that provide additional reviewing and editorial support. Looking for a change? The DynaMed editorial team is expanding with opportunity in the following openings:

Medical Writer

The Medical Writer will be responsible for identifying relevant research, summarizing basic and advanced content, and assimilating information into new or existing clinical reference topics, and providing guidance to other Medical Writers. This position is located in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

Skills:

• Bachelors degree in science or health-related field
• >2 years scientific writing experience or advanced degree in related field
• Active clinical license required for applicants with clinical degrees (for example, MD, DO, NP, PA-C, DDS, PharmD)
• Understanding of principles of evidence based medicine and use of health information technology to support clinical decision making
• Critical appraisal and statistical skills sufficient to determine clinical relevance and validity of advance study types such as systematic reviews and diagnostic studies
• Demonstrated ability to extract relevant clinical information from research and write concisely with minimal errors
• Knowledge of medical terminology
• Knowledge of advanced PubMed searching strategies
• >1 year experience MS Office Suite including Word (with use of track changes) and Excel

Senior Medical Writer

The Senior Medical Writer will be responsible for creating and proofreading content that is assimilated into new or existing clinical reference topics; work will be conducted as part of the DynaMed Editorial Team with the guidance of a physician editor. This position is located in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

Skills:

• Bachelors Degree in Science or Health related field
• > 2 years editing experience including editing documents produced by other writers, training, and feedback to writers
• Sufficient knowledge to determine both clinical and statistical significance of research results
• Experience as Team Leader of Project Leader
• Ability to exercise judgment to make decisions and provide guidance to other team members according to set standards
• Flexibility and ability to effectively manage changing workload demands and priorities
• Willingness to learn XML editing software
• > 5 years medical or scientific writing experience or advanced degree in related field