The work

You receive draft survey instruments — physician questionnaires, patient experience surveys, screeners — and read them the way a clinician or a market researcher who knows the disease would read them. Does the staging language match current AJCC conventions? Is the list of second-line systemic therapies missing an agent that has been standard of care for two years? Does a response option force a respondent to pick between two answers that are both true in practice? Is the question asking a PCP about a decision that, in the real world, is made by a specialist? You flag what is wrong, explain why in evidence-based terms, and propose specific replacement wording or answer options.

Some tasks are pure clinical content review alongside a survey methodologist. Others ask you to assess design as well — skip logic, question order, whether a scale will actually discriminate between disease severity levels. The listing is explicit that experience designing or fielding pharmaceutical market research surveys makes you more valuable, but it is not a gate.

What the screen looks for

Mercor's screening is AI-led and follow-up heavy. It will pick one therapeutic area from your background and push into it: not "do you know about ulcerative colitis" but "what changed in UC treatment sequencing in the last three years, and how would that change a survey written in 2021." Vague familiarity across many diseases screens worse than genuine depth in one. Expect to be asked to critique a specific survey question live and to justify your critique. An MD is welcome but not required — medical affairs, medical writing, clinical research, life-sciences consulting, and healthcare market research backgrounds are all in scope, and three years of professional experience in the relevant area is the stated bar.

Logistics

  • Fully remote and asynchronous; you claim tasks and return written reviews.
  • Volume is project-driven rather than a fixed weekly commitment — expect bursts tied to fielding timelines.
  • $200/hr is the observed rate for this listing, not a guarantee; rates vary by task type and by how narrow the therapeutic area is.
  • Strong written English matters more than speed; your output is prose recommendations another human will act on.