Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

December Orientation, January Start

Managing Editor responsibilities for several ongoing medical education projects/products for medical specialty association.

We are seeking a freelance medical editor upon the retirement of the current editor. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with developing board-style self-assessment questions, board review content and other medical education content development, along with deep project management experience and previous work with physicians in a medical specialty association.

The Managing editor responsibilities include the following project types and a list of responsibilities, dependent on the project types.

2 concurrent 6-8 month projects annually :

• Fellows in Training study questions
• Drug Allergy protocols

1 concurrent 13-18 month which rotates each period between the following:

• Board review book (500+pages)
• 100 question self-assessment program

The Managing Editor will:

• Develop project plan, schedules and deadlines.
• Assist with writer recruitment, selection and onboarding processes.
• Manage the project through completion/launch.
• Coordinate calls.
• Co-facilitate calls and online meetings with Editor and Writers, ensure time management.
• Prepare and distribute writer assignments
• Document all work of committee, versioning.
• Send reminders to writers for upcoming deadlines and reminders for peer review sessions. (Working with physicians does usually require multiple reminders for a major deadline.)
• Circulate the questions via email for small group (triad) review.
• Collect and copyedit all revised questions after the small group review.
• Compile questions in one document for the Peer Review Session – distribute 48 hrs. prior to the online meeting.
• During group review online meetings, edit in real time on screen. Also, co-manage the online meeting with the Editor-in-Chief (EIC).
• Finalize edits and forward all edited questions from the Peer Review Session to the EIC for final review.
• Copyedit the revised questions with the EIC’s changes (i.e., get questions ready for publishing).
• Seek and track copyright permissions.
• For copy editing, use the AMA style manual and the ACAAI style guide.
• Edit and format references accordingly, including finding the PubMed ID for links to the abstracts in the online module.
• Respond to writers’ comments and/or questions.
• Writers may correspond directly with the Editor-in-Chief to resolve any content issues, that may require revision.
• Maintain and update a tracking sheet with the status of the questions or chapters (i.e., track each writer’s submissions and contributions at each major milestone).
• Do a final review of the questions, and send one file of complete listing all questions, answer choices (with correct answer indicated), discussions, media (if applicable), and references (formatted with PubMed ID) to the ACAAI staff.
• Coordinate the testing of the online product, report results and track and ensure all fixes are made.
• Participate in a 15 min. weekly project status phone call with ACAAI staff and EIC as needed.

Medical Specialty Member Organization

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