Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LearningMate is seeking medical subject matter experts to develop and review educational and assessment content aligned with the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). The role focuses on creating and evaluating clinical vignettes, multiple-choice questions, rationales, topic overviews, and related learning materials while ensuring clinical accuracy, alignment with USMLE competencies, and adherence to current U.S. standards of care.
Responsibilities
- Write and/or review USMLE-style multiple-choice questions and clinical vignettes
- Develop clinically relevant scenarios that assess application, reasoning, diagnosis, management, and next-step decision-making
- Create plausible distractors, correct answers, and evidence-based rationales
- Review AI-generated or AI-assisted medical content for clinical accuracy, relevance, and quality
- Identify and correct factual errors, inconsistencies, ambiguity, unsupported clinical reasoning, or inappropriate distractors
- Align assessment and learning content to applicable USMLE content outlines and competencies
- Develop and/or review topic overviews and supporting learning content
- Ensure content reflects current U.S. clinical guidelines, standards of care, and medical practice
- Incorporate stakeholder and peer-review feedback during revision cycles
- Follow established editorial, assessment, and quality standards
- Meet project deadlines and production expectations
Skills
- MD or DO degree from an accredited medical school
- U.S. clinical training and/or substantial experience with U.S. medical education
- Strong knowledge of clinical medicine and/or foundational medical sciences relevant to USMLE Step 1 or Step 2 CK
- Familiarity with USMLE content expectations and NBME-style assessment formats
- Ability to interpret medical evidence, clinical guidelines, and standards of care
- Excellent written communication, critical-thinking, and analytical skills
- Strong attention to detail and ability to provide clear, actionable feedback
- Ability to work independently within defined project guidelines and timelines
- Medical / clinical subject matter expertise
- USMLE Step 1 and/or Step 2 CK content knowledge
- NBME-style item writing and review
- Clinical vignette development
- Clinical reasoning assessment
- Evidence-based medical content development
- Blueprint and competency alignment
- Medical content quality assurance
- AI-assisted content review
- Strong written communication
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work within structured authoring and review workflows
- Board certification or board eligibility in a relevant medical specialty
- Completion of or current participation in a U.S. residency or fellowship program
- Experience teaching medical students, residents, or other healthcare professionals
- Experience writing or reviewing USMLE, NBME-style, or medical board-preparation content
- Experience developing clinical vignettes, single-best-answer MCQs, and evidence-based rationales
- Previous work with medical publishers, medical education organizations, assessment providers, or EdTech companies
- Experience reviewing AI-generated medical or assessment content
- Familiarity with assessment quality principles, including item difficulty, discrimination, distractor quality, bias, and accessibility
Benefits
- Remote – U.S.-based candidates
- Contract / Freelance
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