Medical Analyst (Registered Nurse)

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

Job summary

A healthcare protective association is seeking a Registered Nurse Medical Analyst to conduct research on medico-legal data. This role involves analyzing clinical files, contributing to patient safety projects, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. Candidates should have extensive nursing experience and expertise in file review and medical coding. The position can be performed fully remotely from Ontario or in-office in Ottawa.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Review and code medical case files accurately.
• Provide clinical expertise on research projects.
• Maintain knowledge within medical specialty.

Skills

File review techniques

Assessment of risk content

MS Office Suite familiarity

Knowledge of medical coding standards

Reading and interpretation in English

Ability to read French

Education

4 year Bachelor in Nursing Science or equivalent

Registered Nurse designation

Job description

Description

Position at Canadian Medical Protective Association

■MEDICAL ANALYST (REGISTERED NURSE)

CONTRIBUTING TO THE CMPA

The Safe Medical Care Researchdepartment 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 Safe Medical Care Researchdepartment also responds to internal and external requests for data analysis. The department 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– this role is classified as level8
• Skill assessment : selected candidates will be required to complete a skillassessment
• 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, 2025at 4 : 00PM EST