MercorPosted 13 Aug 2026

Applied Health & Medicine Benchmark Specialist

Pay

$94–119/hr

Work

Remote · Contract

Eligibility

No stated location restriction

Field

Medicine & healthcare

Skills

Clinical MedicineSurgeryMedical ImagingMedical DiagnosticsPharmacovigilanceHealthcare ManagementHealthcare EconomicsRehabilitation and Allied HealthClinical ReasoningBiomedical Research MethodologyMedical Question AuthoringQuestion VerificationAcademic ReferencingMarkdown

About this role

Role Overview

We are seeking expert medical and health science professionals to author and review high-quality academic assessment content for an AI research initiative. You will write and verify rigorous multiple-choice questions across core health and medicine domains, evaluate solution quality, and help establish gold-standard benchmarks used to advance AI capabilities.

You will be assigned one of two task types:

  • Question Authoring — Create original, challenging multiple-choice questions in your area of medical expertise, rate their difficulty, and submit them for review.
  • Question Verification — Review pre-written questions for accuracy, clarity, and rigor. Edit where needed, rate difficulty, and document any changes made.

Health & Medicine Domains Covered

Clinical Medicine & Surgery, Medical Imaging & Diagnostics, Pharmacovigilance, Healthcare Management & Economics, Rehabilitation and Allied Health.

Key Responsibilities

  • Author original health and medicine questions that test deep conceptual understanding, not surface-level recall
  • Ensure questions are unambiguous, self-contained, and precisely defined — all necessary information must be in the problem statement
  • Rate each question's difficulty: Medium (intro undergraduate), Hard (advanced undergraduate), or Expert (post-graduate and above)
  • Provide 1 correct answer and 9 plausible but subtly incorrect alternatives that challenge expert-level solvers
  • Write step-by-step Chain-of-Thought solutions with clear, concise reasoning in markdown format
  • Supply 1–5 academic references per question from reputable sources (peer-reviewed journals, clinical guidelines)
  • For verification tasks: flag issues with clarity, completeness, precision, or solvability and justify any edits made

Ideal Qualifications

  • MD, DO, PhD, or doctoral candidate in Medicine, Biomedical Sciences, Public Health, or a closely related field
  • Master's degree considered for candidates with exceptional depth in a specific subdomain
  • Strong command of graduate-level medical knowledge, clinical reasoning, and biomedical research methodology
  • Board certification, clinical experience, or research publications in health fields is a strong plus
  • Excellent written English and ability to express complex ideas clearly and concisely

More About the Opportunity

  • Expected commitment: 10+ hours/week
  • Asynchronous, fully remote work

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