What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Educator position at Planet Pharma?
The Medical Educator should possess a scientific, clinical, healthcare, or pharmaceutical background and demonstrate the ability to communicate clinical evidence credibly to healthcare professionals.
Preferred Experience
Scientific Data Dissemination
Compliance & Documentation
Field Alignment
Preferred Experience
- Pulmonary medicine
- Rare disease
- Clinical trial education
- Medical education
- Clinical specialist, clinical educator, nursing educator, respiratory therapy, or Medical Affairs support experience
- Ability to understand and explain clinical trial design, endpoints, patient populations, efficacy and safety findings, and clinical relevance.
- Strong presentation and communication skills.
- Relationship building
- Territory management
- Communication excellence
- Learning agility and self-management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Pulmonary nurse educator
- Respiratory clinical specialist
- Pharmaceutical clinical educator
- Clinical trial educator
- Medical device clinical specialist
Scientific Data Dissemination
- Deliver approved scientific presentations.
- Communicate approved data related to study design, methodology, endpoints,
- Disseminate approved publications, congress presentations, posters, and scientific
- Healthcare Professional Education
- Conduct one-on-one scientific education visits with healthcare professionals.
- Facilitate virtual and face-to-face educational discussions and presentations.
- Deliver basic disease-state education related to Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency.
- Support awareness of augmentation therapy and patient identification opportunities.
- Engage defined academic and community-based pulmonary practices.
- Support educational outreach initiatives identified by Medical Affairs leadership.
- Partner closely with client Medical Affairs leadership and the regionally aligned MSL.
- Identify engagements requiring deeper scientific exchange and refer them to the
- Coordinate with client MSLs and field leaders to support complementary outreach and
Compliance & Documentation
- Conduct all activities in accordance with applicable regulations and company policies.
- Complete timely and accurate activity documentation.
- Successfully complete all required training and certification programs.
- Report adverse events or product complaints following established policies and
Field Alignment
- Educators will coordinate with existing U.S. Field Leadership to engage defined pulmonary HCPs, key prescribers, and stakeholders across priority territories.
- Engagement planning will coordinate educator activity with existing field medical coverage to support complementary outreach and minimize overlap.
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing, respiratory therapy, pharmaceutical sciences, biology, public health, life sciences, healthcare, or a related field.
- Advanced degree (PharmD, PhD, DNP) and/or clinical credentials (RN, RRT, APRT) strongly preferred.
- Clinical experience in pulmonology or direct experience providing pulmonology-related education strongly preferred.
- Minimum of 2 years of healthcare, pharmaceutical, clinical education, clinical research, or related experience.
- Willingness to travel up to 80%