Medical reviewer job description

This post includes 3 parts: duties list, job qualification and job description writing tips for Medical reviewer in details. A complete job description concludes Medical reviewer key duties/responsibilities, Medical reviewer job qualifications (knowledge, education, skills, abilities, experience…KSA model) and other ones such as daily tasks, key activities, key/core competencies, job functions/purpose…

                                                  

I. List of Medical reviewer duties:

1. Conduct review and assessment of serious spontaneous reports of adverse events and perform causality assessment of clinical trials and solicited reports.
2. Determine regulatory reportability of cases obtained from clinical trials, spontaneous and solicited reports within assigned therapeutic team and across all products/sites, as necessary, and in a timely fashion.
3. Perform triage on cases and determine seriousness and relatedness across products/sites as assigned .
4. Acquire and maintain current knowledge of product portfolio and safety profiles for products across DSS therapeutic teams as appropriate.
5. Escalate complex case issues on team product(s) to the Medical Director of the therapeutic team as appropriate.
6. Conduct assessment of litigation cases across products/sites as assigned.
7. Review and provide assurance of medical content and clinical relevance of regulatory safety documents including Investigators Brochures, PSURs and ad hoc regulatory reports as assigned.
8. In collaboration with the Medical Director, assist in pharmacovigilance activities through active follow-up of cases to obtain additional information as assigned.
9. Identify and resolve case issues, coordinate with therapeutic teams/site for specific products or functional groups across DSS as appropriate.
10. Communicate and interact effectively within and across Therapeutic Teams, and within Functional Team Management as appropriate.

II. List of Medical reviewer qualifications

1. Current Pennsylvania Registered Nurse Licensure
2. Ability to review claims and clinical data to evaluate medical necessity
3. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
4. Knowledge of Microsoft Word style sheets and fields
5. Knowledge of Microsoft Word editing
6. Knowledge of Microsoft Word speller functions
7. Experience with medical legal record review regarding California workers compensation codes
8. Experience in editing reports from a Qualified Medical Evaluation (QME, PQME, AME)
9. Minimum of 2 years college education, four years preferred

III. Tips to write job description

1. Too-long job description:

Looking at a too-long job description can frighten the candidates off and drive the away. A job description, no matter how important the job is, should not be included in more than 3 pages. If one focuses on too many things at a time, he shall definitely lose focus on the main items and get overwhelmed by the remaining; So, keep it concisely.

2. Too-short job description:

While too-long can be a problem, too-short is more a problem. It will ruin the meaning of the job description. A too-short one means it lacks necessary details and therefore, the candidate will not be able to understand while reading it.

3. Listing unnecessary functions or job duties:

Just classifying these into the “others” category will save you a lot of effort and space. On the other hand, the job description will become more dilute and easy to be neglected.

4. Key functions

Not listing key functions as required for the job can be a fatal mistake to a job description.

5. Grammar and spelling

Poor grammar and having spelling errors can ruin the job description, too. Never think that as you are the employer, you may have the right to make grammar or spelling errors while requires other not to. A job description with such errors is easily to be mistaken as a fake or ghost ads; as a result, the candidate will turn away from it.

6. Not specific enough:

Be specific and concise; if you don’t address the specific, then what the job description is for. It is for the candidate to understand just exactly what he needs to do or needs to have. Lacking details can confuse the candidates very well.

7. Not having the job description reviewed by others:

This is also a common mistake. One may be subject to bias, but more than one, especially with the help of those external advisor, the job description can be more perfect.

8. Using buzzwords or abbreviations:

In fact, it is not necessary at all to use such in a job description.

9. Using slang or legal words:

Just use common wording to communicate with others and don’t do anything extraordinarily.

10. Not updating the job description:

The same job may require different duties and responsibilities in different times, so, you cannot use the same job description for 2 different times.

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