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POSITION OVERVIEW

The Test Development unit's Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) team is currently seeking an Editor. The Editor will work with our committee volunteers to create test content used to evaluate health professionals at varying stages of their education and practice.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement

At NBME ®, we continue to innovate and improve how we fulfill the evolving needs of the health care community. This commitment starts and ends with the people at NBME. By recruiting and empowering talented individuals from various disciplines and backgrounds, which includes professionals with diverse life experiences, abilities, and perspectives, NBME can take a well-informed, robust approach to advancing medical education and assessment for years to come. We also continue to focus on ensuring that our DEI work is impactful and ingrained in everything we do, including with our staff, workplace culture, products and services, the Philadelphia community and the broader medical education landscape.

Primary duties include, but not limited to:

• Edit examination items focusing on development of clinical, experimental, and systems-based vignettes and additional robust item stimuli.
• Review items for test flaws and adherence to test development methodologies and provide suggestions to authors for substantive changes. Edit for grammar, punctuation, clarity, consistency of style, and item accuracy.
• Facilitate test committee meetings and actively contribute to the process by using knowledge of content and test development methodology; routinely provide feedback to reviewers and edit on the spot while maintaining an accurate record of all committee decisions including exam-specific style issues.
• Develop committee assignments and produce committee meeting drafts.
• Oversee editorial production assistants who are involved in committee support.
• Verify classification coding for test items.
• Perform or utilize pool analyses to ensure consistency and accuracy of item information.
• Utilize editorial platform software and other proprietary systems and programs to manage item content throughout its lifecycle.

Key Deliverables include, but not limited to:

• Ensure correctness of exam items and correct item entry in proprietary systems.
• Produce high-quality exams.
• Meet assigned deadlines.
• Ensure productive, well-run committee meetings with high-quality items and accurate record of editorial changes.
• Participate in exam production as needed (CBT and/or web-based testing exams) and item publishing in FRED.
• Communicate effectively with team and staff across USMLE, as well as external clients and physicians.
• Oversee production of work by Editorial Production Assistants.
• Ensure accurate record of editorial changes made during committee meetings/IWWs.
• Ensure assignments accurately reflect current pool analysis.
• Provide support to item writers regarding use of editorial platform software and Sharepoint.
• Adhere to security protocols for handling of proprietary and confidential materials.
• Support the values and culture of the NBME.

REQUIREMENTS

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Excellent grammar, punctuation, and spelling skills-excellent proofreading skills
• Demonstrated skill in use of computer applications (databases and word processing)
• Advanced knowledge of test development procedures
• Knowledge of medical terminology and specific subject areas

Experience: Minimum of 2 years' experience

Education: Bachelor's degree

About NBME:

NBME offers a versatile selection of high-quality assessments and educational services for students, professionals, educators, regulators and institutions dedicated to the evolving needs of medical education and health care. To ensure our assessments meet the highest standards of quality, stay relevant and align to the current curriculum in medical schools and training programs, we rely on a wide network of collaborators. These include the volunteers who help develop our exam questions, the committees and panels who represent various groups within the medical education community, external researchers and health profession organizations.

We are committed to meeting the needs of educators and learners globally with assessment products and expert services such as NBME® , , s, the ® Program and . Together with the Federation of State Medical Boards, NBME develops and manages the , which measures the ability to apply knowledge and skills that form the basis of safe and effective patient care. Our Competency-based Assessment unit is focused on new methods as well as the optimization of assessment in the workplace and education.

As a result of leadership in ongoing research, innovative measurement practices and the exploration of forward-thinking assessment modalities and improvements, NBME advances assessment science. Our grant and funding opportunities further support this dedication to medical education and assessment science. We help develop the next generation of assessment professionals through our . Through the , and , researchers and educators can continue to improve the assessment of health care professionals around the world.

NBME views diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as foundational and enduring to our strategy and vision. We continue to focus on ensuring that our DEI work is impactful and ingrained in everything we do, including with our staff, culture, products and services, the Philadelphia community and the broader medical education landscape. Our commitment manifests in our hiring and staff development, recruitment for committees, grants programs, design and review of our assessments, and involvement in our local and national communities.

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The NBME offers competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and a rewarding work environment. Excellent Benefits include: Healthcare, Dental, Prescription, and Vision plans; 401(k) w/match, Tuition Reimbursement Plan, Commuter Benefit: Public Transit or Parking options. Remote Friendly Workplace.

COVID-19 Considerations:

Being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 is a condition of employment, subject to potential reasonable accommodations for legitimate medical or religious reasons which prevent such vaccination. Applicants who have received a conditional offer of employment will be requested to provide information about their COVID-19 vaccination status.

NBME is an equal opportunity employer as defined by the EEOC.