Senior Medical Data Abstractor

Part of the Oncology Clinical Team, working on building Oncology Data dictionaries, Curation/Abstraction SOPs etc.

Position Summary:

The Person navigates electronic medical record systems and other medical databases. This role involves reviewing clinical trial data for consistency, completeness, and compliance with study protocols and regulatory requirements. reviews medical records, and abstracts medical record data related to specified disease and project requirements.

Essential Job Functions:

Screening of cases for relevant clinical trials across various projects and/or disease subtypes.
Knowledge related to cancer trials is essential and required, including understanding their
inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Ability to use critical thinking to understand and abstract complex concepts.
Building of data libraries and liaising with multiple departments when project specific
requirements/needs arise.
Act as an oncology subject matter expert (SME) across all cancers, especially across liquid cancer types.
Access electronic data systems for review of medical records and enter specific data into
congruent electronic data systems.
Ability to understand the Inclusion, Exclusion criteria, adverse event, hospitalization data,
medications details and categorize the data accordingly.
Review project specific documents, as needed, to develop familiarity with project goals and with the Abstractor tasks in each project.
Ability to understand the diagnostic, pathology and other reports and obtain the exact
information required according to trial specific SOPs.
Use other resources as needed to gain the knowledge required to perform Abstractor work on new projects.
Share medical knowledge and project-specific procedural knowledge with other Data Abstractors as needed.
Respond promptly to queries issued by the Lead Data Abstractor, Operations Manager or other project personnel.
Conduct additional duties as assigned, including review of selected medical records to assess
eligibility for new project, performing second level reviews/QC review of medical records.

Qualification:

Minimum 3+ years experience across data abstraction or any patient treatment related data is desirable.
Oncology experience is preferable; familiarity with how cancer is treated from diagnosis through treatment and recovery and an understanding of cancer terminology, with a strong focus and knowledge on liquid tumors is essential.
Experience in clinical research or related fields, especially in oncology trials is preferred.
An advanced level of clinical knowledge associated with chronic disease states is required.
Experience in clinical research or reviewed medical data for clinical trials.
Certification done in clinical research or clinical data management.

Education:

B.Sc (Nursing), BDS, BAMS, BHMS, MDS, BPharm, MPharm

Skills and Abilities:

Language: Strong communication skills both written and verbal to work with multiple internal and external clients in a fast paced environment.
Reasoning: Ability to make independent judgments in abstracting medical data and the
knowledge of when to seek input from other staff.
Flexibility: Flexibility in coping with changing work assignments, changing project requirements, varying training meeting schedules, and database resources that may not always function optimally.
Computer: Ability to create and maintain documents using Microsoft office( word, excel, outlook and powerpoint).