Medical Analyst (Registered Nurse)

Canadian Medical Protective Association; Ottawa; Remote; CAD 83,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading medical protection organization is seeking a Medical Analyst (Registered Nurse) to work in Ottawa or remotely within Ontario and Québec. The role involves analyzing medico-legal data, coding medical files, and ensuring high standards of data integrity. Qualified candidates must hold a Nursing degree, significant clinical experience, and possess various analytical skills. Salary ranges from $83,700 to $97,300 annually.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years relevant clinical nursing experience.
• Ability to work under minimal supervision.
• Excellent judgement and synthesizing skills.

Responsibilities

• Review content of medical files and code according to departmental practices.
• Identify diagnoses, interventions, and contributing factors.
• Provide clinical expertise on research projects.
• Participate in discussions on data integrity and coding.
• Maintain knowledge in medical specialty.

Skills

File review techniques

Risk content assessment

MS Office Suite

ICD-CCI coding standards

Medical specialty knowledge

Medico-legal risk management

Continuous quality improvement

Research methodology

Chart audits

English interpretation abilities

French reading and interpretation

Education

4 year Bachelor in Nursing Science

Registered Nurse designation

Job description

MEDICAL ANALYST (REGISTERED NURSE)

CONTRIBUTING TO THE CMPA

The Safe Medical Care Research department performs acquisition, abstraction, and capture of clinically oriented medical legal data. The department analyses and interprets the data to generate knowledge that supports the activities and knowledge translation of the Safe Medical Care Learning department. The department also responds to internal and external requests for data analysis, studies historical data to identify individual provider, team, and system factors associated with medical-legal risk, researches trends, and evaluates the performance and impact of education programs. The department synthesizes evidence and disseminates its research findings by authoring reports, risk management and educational materials in collaboration with CMPA’s physician advisors, general legal counsel, and the Communications department.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Registered Nurse Medical Analyst (internal title: Medical Analyst) is an integral part of the research activities of the Department of Safe Medical Care Research in the Research & Analytics group. This group is engaged in innovative research of medico-legal data to develop themes of needed areas of focus in patient safety and quality improvement. The Medical Analyst is an integral member of a multidisciplinary team involved in knowledge generation and knowledge translation for program and content development. The incumbent performs in-depth analysis of large amounts of medico-legal files with a keen eye for medical risk information. Using coding principles, the incumbent synthesizes and accurately represents file information within a corporate data repository for future analysis.

POSITION ACTIVITIES

• Review content of medical case files and code in accordance with departmental coding practices and guidelines.
• Identify from the medical file the diagnoses, interventions, contributing factors and all other pertinent information.
• Provide clinical/medical expertise on topics and specific research projects within the department that will promote and ensure high standards of data capture and analysis and optimize knowledge transfer capabilities.
• Participate actively in discussions with colleagues on matters concerning optimisation of techniques to ensure data integrity issues, coding of files and data extraction.
• Through continuous professional development and training, maintain detailed knowledge within medical specialty in order to be able to provide leadership, knowledge and expertise to the Research & Analytics team.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• 4 year Bachelor in Nursing Science (or equivalent combination of Diploma and additional work experience)
• Registered Nurse designation and registration with the College of Nurses
• A minimum of 10 years relevant clinical nursing experience
• Ability to work under minimal supervision
• Excellent judgement and synthesizing skills

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Experience and/or knowledge of file review techniques, assessment of risk content within files and coding of files.
• Familiarity with MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
• Familiarity with National and International Coding standards in the medical field (ICD-CCI).
• Extensive knowledge within a medical, surgical or obstetrics specialty.
• Familiarity with medico-legal risk management.
• Familiarity with continuous quality improvement and/or quality management principles.
• Experience and/or knowledge of research methodology is an asset.
• Familiarity with chart audits or performing case chronologies would be an asset.
• Strong reading, writing and interpretation abilities in English.
• Ability to read and interpret French is strongly preferred.

POSTING DETAILS

• Job Type: regular full-time opportunity
• Salary range: $83,700 to $97,300
• Skill assessment: selected candidates will be required to complete a skill assessment.
• Location: Fully Remote Job. You can work from a home-based office anywhere in the provinces of Ontario and Québec. If you prefer, you can choose to work out of CMPA’s office in Ottawa, ON near the beautiful Dow’s Lake.
• Application deadline: October 29, 2025 at 4:00PM EST

The CMPA is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to being responsive to those living with disabilities and strives to prevent and remove barriers to accessibility. The CMPA will provide support and accommodation in its recruitment processes to applicants living with disabilities. If you are invited to participate in an interview and/or skills assessment and have accommodation needs, please let us know.

Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) is a key priority, and we actively strive to build a culture of inclusion where employees can be their authentic selves and are valued for their diverse experiences and perspectives.

We welcome and encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds and a variety of lived experiences to apply.