Clinical Specialist - Spine

Main Objective

Provide technical and clinical support for the training curriculum that addresses the changing needs of Arthrex employees, Arthrex business partner representatives, and healthcare professional customers.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Create and maintain a thorough understanding of current and classic concepts in orthopedics, the Arthrex product line, and clinical procedures supported by Arthrex products; be able to articulate and demonstrate these concepts and procedures to Arthrex employees, business partner representatives and healthcare professional customers.
• Create and develop online educational content for healthcare professionals and students as well as educational content for a learning management system for Arthrex representative training.
• Participate in Arthrex business partner representative medical education programs.
• Carry out the objectives created for Arthrex agency representative product and procedure training programs.
• Provide input for Arthrex business partner representative medical education courses and surgical skills lab agendas.
• Teach the safe and effective use of Arthrex products and procedure-specific surgical and non-surgical techniques using Arthrex instruments.
• Teach general orthopedic and medical condition topics including current and classic concepts of patho-anatomy, biomechanics, and pathology classifications related to Arthrex products and procedures.
• Provide clinical support in the development of digital learning materials for the purpose of Arthrex representative education and training.
• Participate in healthcare professional medical education and training programs.
• Carry out the objectives created for healthcare professional product and procedure training programs.
• Provide input for healthcare professional medical education courses and single day lab agendas.
• Teach the safe and effective use of Arthrex products and procedure-specific surgical and non-surgical techniques using Arthrex instruments.
• Teach general orthopedic and medical condition topics including current and classic concepts of patho-anatomy, biomechanics, and pathology classifications related to Arthrex products and procedures.
• Participate as a liaison with Arthrex business partners and their representatives to assist with organization and implementation of their local medical education and surgical skills lab training programs.
• Assist in the organization and execution of cadaver surgical skills workshops.
• Provide clinical support in reviewing written and digital material developed by other Arthrex departments to advise on clinical accuracy of these materials.
• Provide clinical support in research and development of Arthrex products and procedures.
• Afford clinical, technical, and surgical skills advice and services to the product and procedure development process via team interaction with the Research and Development, Product Management and Engineering Departments.
• Interface with Product Management and Engineering Departments to provide pertinent design criteria regarding form and function of surgical instruments.

Skills

• Knowledgeable of standard principles of musculoskeletal medicine is required.
• Significant knowledge of anatomy from an orthopedic standpoint required.
• Working knowledge of the use of PowerPoint required.
• Ability to clearly present a topic to a group of people from a podium is required.
• Ability to demonstrate basic surgical dexterity skills such a proper use of common surgical dissection instruments, applying sutures, and hand and instrument knot tying is required.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in one of the bio-medical sciences or related fields required.
• Certification as a physician assistant or nurse practitioner is required.
• 5-years of experience in musculoskeletal medicine, or the orthopedic industry is required.
• Experience as a physician assistant, nurse practitioner, MD, or DO working in musculoskeletal medicine is required.