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Who we are? As the world's largest organization of board-certified pathologists and leading provider of laboratory accreditation and proficiency testing programs, the College of American Pathologists (CAP) serves patients, pathologists, and the public by fostering and advocating excellence in the practice of pathology and laboratory medicine worldwide.

Our Culture

+ CAP employees make a meaningful difference by partnering with colleagues customers and members on challenging and rewarding work

+ CAP provides its employees with an energetic and collaborative work environment and encourage opportunities to further develop their skills—offering reimbursement for educational programs and participation in events that enhance your skills

+ We offer a generous compensation and benefits package, 401K, and more -- visit Careers at the CAP (https://www.cap.org/careers-at-the-cap) for more details

Brief Description

The Medical Librarian Specialist, Center Guideline Development is responsible for:

+ Oversight of all items related to the systematic review literature search needs for the development of CAP Pathology and Laboratory Quality Center (The “Center”) guidelines including active participation in the scope and key questions phase; creation of concept tables; searching multiple literature resources; procurement of articles and participation in screening literature with inclusion/exclusion factors and providing proper citation references for manuscript publication. (~50%)

+ The Center will develop and disseminate evidence and consensus based practice guidelines focused on patient care and clinical outcome that will strengthen the practice of pathology.

+ Primary lead for managing the initiation and preliminary screening of periodic literature search reviews (using signals approach or others) of any new published evidence for the Center’s completed guidelines to determine if revision or reaffirmation is warranted. (~40%)

+ Assists the Guideline Development Managers (GDM) for each guideline protocol, logistics for its development activities and meetings, and other expert panel support if needed. (~10%)

Specific Duties

Primary duties and responsibilities of the Medical Librarian Specialist, Center Guideline Development :

+ Conduct comprehensive searches of electronic databases to meet the systematic review needs of evidence-based guideline activities including:

+ Participate in the development of scope and key questions with stakeholders to refine search strategies

+ Document and maintain all search strategies, number of articles identified by, and retrieved from each search, and other retrieval statistics for guideline publication purposes

+ Investigate the appropriateness and cost of resources; order publications and other literature materials

+ Load and manage articles within the systematic review software

+ Author and edit search methodology as part of guideline publication

+ Contact experts regarding sources of unpublished data and obtain permission to use data a part of guideline development

+ Provide final reference documentation for guideline manuscript by maintaining Reference Manager Databases of search results

+ Maintain, update and improve retrieval capabilities

+ Provide up-to-date information on medical issues and on issues within the health care industry

+ Partner with the CAP Records and Information Center as needed on all of the above

+ Lead the preliminary assessment of guideline updates including environmental scans or signals approach reviews for guidelines as needed. Works in tandem with Director and GDM to initiate start-up of updates including:

+ Initiate and pre-screen periodic literature search reviews of completed Center guidelines to deliver high quality revisions or reaffirmation on time

+ Updating literature search terms and concept tables

+ Pre-screening based on evidence captured in original guideline

+ Provides assistance and official support duties with direction from GDM in areas related to guideline development up until publication (ie, communication/dissemination/toolkits not included) with facilitation of guideline development which may include:

+ identifying and coordinating with new expert and advisory panel members

+ establishing tools, processes and schedules

+ working with expert panel chair(s) to manage panel activities

+ conducting conference calls and staffing panel meetings as needed

+ performing screening and/or data extraction review if needed providing a detailed review of abstracts and manuscripts prior to submission

+ Knowledge/Skills Required/Preferred

Technical:

+ Familiarity with MeSH headings, medical terminology, syntax, filters and Boolean logic required for systematic and, as appropriate, comprehensive search for information, including searches of Medline and other electronic bibliographic databases.

+ Experience using reference management applications.

+ Expertise in online database searching.

+ Understanding of different study designs and publication types.

+ Experience with content management systems.

+ Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Professional:

+ Able to interface effectively with physicians, scientists, and others with varying backgrounds, levels, and expertise.

+ Strong project management skills.

Personal:

+ Strong interpersonal and communications skills (listening, written, oral), one-on-one as well as in large and small group.

+ Strong presentation skills in small and large group settings.

Education/Experience

Education:

+ ALA-accredited master’s degree in library/information science with additional course work or equivalent training in medical librarianship or background in biomedical or health sciences

Experience:

+ Knowledge if current and emerging core and secondary databases and experience locating sources of grey literature.

+ Minimum three years of professional experience in a medically-related field (e.g. pathology/laboratory medicine) preferred.

+ Previous project management involving complex teams preferred.

Related certifications:

+ AHIP (Academy of Health Information Professionals) certification

Additional Criteria

+ Travel is approximately 15%, including weekends

+ Minimal supervision for day-to-day management

+ This position is based out of the Northfield, IL office. Candidates must reside within 75-miles of the Northfield headquarters.

+ Salary Range: $75,000 - $94,000

Equal Opportunity Employer The CAP is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender identity and/or expression, national origin, age, ancestry, disability or genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship status, order of protection status, homelessness, or any other characteristic protected by federal law and the applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws: Family and Medical Leave Act Equal Employment Opportunity Employee Polygraph Protection Act

Job Details

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Pay Type Salary

Travel Percentage 15