Title: Medical Communication & Information Specialist
ON, CA
Job Description
Must Have
Medical Communication & Information Specialist
Summary: Indegene is looking for a Canada based medical communication & information professional to work on medical communication & information deliverables for their global clients. Key responsibilities would include developing and reviewing content for a variety of medical communications & medical information documents such as slide sets, videos, abstracts, posters, infographics, literature searches, responding to medical information requests and escalated inquiries based on highest quality clinical evidence.
Responsibilities:
• Research, develop, and review content that is scientifically accurate, evidence-based, appropriately referenced, and complying with quality and regulatory standards. Responsible for authoring and reviewing medical and scientific documents including but not limited to abstracts, newsletters, posters, slide decks, videos, infographics, medical information letters, etc.
• Respond to medical information requests (or inquiries) from internal and external customers and ensure the responses are medically and scientifically accurate, timely, balanced, and meet customers’ needs.
• Respond to inquiries received via phone, email, internet or mail with high quality customer service and document the inquiry and response accurately and completely according to relevant Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) and regulatory guidelines.
• Create medical information documents including, but not limited to, standard response documents (SRs), questions and answer documents (Q&As), and reactive slide decks by assessing and summarizing published medical and scientific literature. Update the documents at regular intervals and maintain a database of frequently used medical information documents.
• Demonstrate expertise and knowledge of assigned therapeutic areas and a good understanding of pertinent disease state(s).
• Perform literature searches in Pubmed and Embase including formulating a search strategy, critically evaluating the validity of the scientific literature, data extraction, and data presentation that would support the creation of medical content and check for or obtain copyright permissions prior to internal or external use.
• Work on platforms and tools to support creation, review, management, documentation, analysis and tracking of medical information documents.
• Work with the medical information and medical affairs teams during congresses, product launches, and key data releases and ensure assigned work is completed as per the timelines and SOPs.
• Have a background and understanding of requirements for strategic communication planning, KOL profiling, scientific meetings (advisory boards, company sponsored meetings, congress symposia), disease-awareness programs, and training and development programs (internal and external).
Good to have
Requirements:
• Advanced bioscience or pharmacy/medical qualification (PharmD, PhD, MD, any life science background).
• Minimum of 2-3 years of scientific writing/content writing experience in research, life science and pharmaceutical companies, for example, within medical affairs or medical information teams, or medical communications agency experience. Specific medical communication & information experience is preferred.
• Strong accountability, interpersonal and organizational skills, and the ability to work in a cross-functional team environment.
• Ability to perform in-depth literature research, analysis and interpretation of medical data.
• Knowledge of regulatory guidelines affecting the dissemination of medical communication & information and product promotion.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and willingness to travel on as needed basis.
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