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Confidential lists this Clinical Survey Researcher, Healthcare Market Research opportunity in Wrigleyville, Illinois. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Shape physician-focused healthcare market research by ensuring surveys are clinically accurate, scientifically credible, clearly structured, and grounded in real-world clinical practice. This role combines disease-area expertise with practical healthcare market research and questionnaire-development experience across multiple therapeutic areas and research initiatives.
Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and refine physician-facing surveys for a range of diseases and therapeutic areas.
Review survey questions for clinical accuracy, medical relevance, clarity, and suitability for the intended physician audience.
Convert complex clinical concepts and research objectives into structured, unbiased survey questions.
Apply established market research methods to strengthen questionnaire design, response options, survey flow, and data quality.
Assess clinical terminology, treatment pathways, diagnostic criteria, patient-management practices, and therapeutic relevance.
Work with research teams to incorporate feedback and maintain consistency across survey projects.
Recommend improvements to survey validity, physician engagement, and overall research quality.
Qualifications Advanced clinical or scientific degree, including MD, DO, PhD, PharmD, or an equivalent qualification in medicine, clinical research, or a closely related field.
Deep expertise in specific diseases or therapeutic areas, treatment guidelines, and real-world clinical decision-making.
Hands-on experience designing, writing, reviewing, or validating healthcare professional surveys.
Knowledge of questionnaire design, survey logic, response scales, question bias, and research best practices.
Experience with pharmaceutical companies, healthcare market research agencies, life sciences consulting firms, or clinical research organizations.
Strong written communication skills, including the ability to translate complex medical information into clear, actionable survey questions.
Preferred Qualifications At least 3 years of experience in healthcare market research, clinical survey development, or related research activities.
Experience developing surveys for physicians, specialists, or other healthcare professionals.
Familiarity with Qualtrics, Forsta, Decipher, Alchemer, or SurveyMonkey.
Experience with therapeutic-area market research involving treatment journeys, prescribing behavior, clinical decision-making, and unmet medical needs.
Experience supporting multiple research studies across different disease areas.
Work Terms Remote, hourly engagement.
Opportunity for ongoing collaboration across multiple healthcare research projects in the coming months.
Compensation $200 per hour.
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