Medical Content Writer

The France Foundation is searching for a highly organized, energetic, and innovative Medical Content Director/Writer to join our amazing team. You will make the educational designs in our grants come to life, working with the internal team, external faculty, and collaborators to develop innovative live and online medical educational activities.

The Medical Content Director/Writer reports directly to the President and is responsible for medical content within continuing medical education activities that aim to advance improvements in healthcare and patient outcomes. They will also ensure clinical accuracy through validation and fair balance in accordance with the ACCME criteria -based accreditation system and its Standards for Commercial Support and the ACPE Accreditation Standards for Continuing Pharmacy Education. The Medical Content Director/Writer ensures the highest quality of education is distributed to our learners.

We are a progressive company looking for a strategic forward-thinking candidate to help continue the growth of our company. You will have the opportunity to join a dedicated group of individuals who are leaders in the area of certified continuing education for health professionals.

Responsibilities:

Content Development

• Develop, manage, review, and update content for several therapeutic areas and multiple formats
• Facilitate education planning and content development with subject matter experts
• Stay up to date in all assigned therapeutic areas
• Understand and assimilate clinical data and medical information as it relates to clinical practice
• Provide medical content overviews to internal staff
• Provide content support on-site at meetings and teleconferences
• Audit content at selected live meetings

Adult Learning and Guidelines

• Apply adult education learning principles to the development of education to improve knowledge, competence, and performance of learners
• Understand and apply the framework for quality improvement in healthcare
• Assist in the planning of education that achieves high level outcomes and improvements in clinical practice and patient care
• Ensure independence, objectivity, balance, and scientific rigor in all educational content
• Verify that all scientific research referred to, reported, or used in education activities conforms to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, and analysis
• Further educational outcomes design and reporting through participation in the Outcomes Committee

Client Service and Communications

• Develop and maintain faculty, collaborator, and client relationships
• Ensure all communications of key information are clear and concise and directed to the appropriate team member(s) or department(s)
• Demonstrate excellent customer service behaviors consistent with organizational and departmental standards
• Consistently promote teamwork and direct communication with co-workers
• Assist with abstract submissions and publications of educational outcomes
• Support educational grant development when requested
• Ensure all time lines are met on all deliverables

Qualifications:

• 4-6yrs medical content development or related experience
• Medical Degree or Doctorate preferred
• Knowledgeable of the current guidelines and criteria of the ACCME, AMA, and others as appropriate
• Thorough understanding of performance and quality improvement based continuing education, in addition to the understanding of/and the ability to align with the requirements of Maintenance of Certification (MOC)
• Demonstrates the skills and experience to be independent, self-motivated, solution-oriented, and works well with others as part of a larger team
• Shown to have the ability to multi task and ability to meet deadlines
• Highly organized, detail-oriented and above all committed to production of high quality work

About The France Foundation

The France Foundation is an award-winning medical education company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Smithbucklin. For more than 20 years, we have been trailblazers in developing innovative educational activities for the healthcare team. We are leaders in the area of certified continuing education for health professionals including physicians (ACCME), pharmacists (ACPE), and nurses. At the end of the day, we know our efforts and hard work directly impact improved patient care… this is the driver for what we do at The France Foundation. The France Foundation has been at the forefront of planning, developing and implementing multidisciplinary accredited medical education since its inception in 1999. The company continues to garner recognition for its work in the field, earning the Alliance’s 2013 and 2014 Awards for Innovation in Continuing Professional Development, the 2015 Award for Outstanding CE Enduring Material, the 2017 Award for Outstanding CE Live Meetings, and the 2020 Award for Best in Educational Design.

About Smithbucklin

Smithbucklin is the association management and services company more organizations turn to than any other. Founded in 1949, our mission is to achieve the missions of the client organizations we serve and provide uncompromised stewardship for their long-term prosperity. Smithbucklin offers full-service management and outsourced services to trade associations, professional societies, technology user communities, industry consortia, charitable organizations, corporations and government institutes. Smithbucklin’s offices are located in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Old Lyme, Conn., St. Louis and San Ramon, Calif., and delivers seamless association and event management services worldwide. Smithbucklin is 100 percent employee-owned.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Smithbucklin Corporation, Equal Employment Opportunity is our commitment and goal. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status or any other protected status designated by federal, state or local law. Applicants are encouraged to confidentially self-identify when applying. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a reference and background investigation based on position.

Smithbucklin will not sponsor applicants for work visas and as a precondition of employment, you must be authorized to work in the United States permanently.