Job Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a freelance clinical informatics editor to work in the health informatics team ensuring editorial integrity of our clinical decision support (CDS) content as expressed in machine interpretable form. Our CDS content, BMJ Best Practice, is increasingly used to drive healthcare AI applications as well as directly read by clinicians around the world.

The role will be largely home-based with occasional opportunities to come to our central London office. For the role, you will need to be available to work on a freelance basis for at least 2 (and ideally up to 5) days per week. Please clearly state in your application how many days a week you are able to work.

Responsibilities

• Editorial related review of our machine interpretable content to ensure the correct clinical scope has been covered and that it faithfully captures the clinical intent of the recommendation. Identify any potential patient safety issues associated with the tagging of content and its subsequent uses. 
• Assess the consistency with which we express similar clinical recommendations according to a defined editorial scope. Work with data analysts in the team to implement any needed analysis and subsequent checks in an automated way.
• Liaise with section editors when there is a query about the interpretation of statements in the content. If an underlying content change is agreed, coordinate the proposed changes with the machine interpretable content. 

Qualifications, Experience & Skill

Qualifications

• Essential: Medical or pharmacy degree with experience of clinical practice in that field.

Experience

• Experience devising, creating and updating clinical decision support information for a reputable scientific publisher - Essential.
• Experience or demonstrable interest in health informatics and machine interpretability of clinical content - Essential.
• Experience of a range of CDS content sources to inform the clinical scope of what we address and what we link to from other resources - Essential.
• Experience working with content databases - Desirable.

Skills

• Understand the scope, design and clinical application of CDS content in order to undertake the editorial quality assurance of its machine interpretation representation.
• Able to make judgements on priority of clinical statements in our CDS content to inform scope of what we provide as machine interpretable content.
• Understand the flow evidence that has been used to justify clinical statements in CDS content in order to understand the background and interpretation of those statements.
• Strong editorial instincts, meticulous attention to detail and the ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines.