ICF International-posted about 1 year ago
Full-time • Entry Level
Remote • Reston, VA
5,001-10,000 employees
Administrative and Support Services

The Biomedical Curator will support the National Library of Medicine (NLM) by ensuring the quality of indexing and metadata for biomedical collections. This full-time remote position involves cataloging, indexing, and processing biomedical literature, as well as promoting standards and delivering NLM products to a diverse audience. The role requires collaboration with the NLM team and involves tasks such as constructing PubMed searches, reviewing citations, and supporting quality assurance efforts.

  • Construct PubMed searches to identify citations with missing or incorrect publication types or other headings.
  • Review lists of citations identified as potentially requiring specific indexing corrections.
  • Submit lists of affected PMIDs (PubMed unique identifiers) as batch correction requests.
  • Manually make corrections in PMDM (PubMed Data Management System).
  • Support quality assurance, systems management, and/or data analysis for the section.
  • Import data from spreadsheets into SharePoint tables.
  • Create PubMed queries for comprehensive retrieval of specific concepts and annotate the results to generate training data for Machine Learning.
  • Collect and integrate data from Jira, SharePoint, and other sources; using it to create tables and charts.
  • Attend meetings with internal and client staff to plan tasks.
  • Provide information and contribute to monthly and annual reporting requirements.
  • Bachelor's degree in biology, biomedical science, or a related field OR High school diploma and 9+ years of experience with biomedical vocabulary, principles, and facts.
  • 3+ years of experience with reading and summarizing formal biomedical literature on diverse biomedical topics such as anatomy, physiology, psychology, genetics, biochemistry, and health care practices.
  • 3+ years of experience analyzing and organizing biomedical vocabulary according to the relationships between the terms.
  • 3+ years of experience with a biomedical database (preferably PubMed).
  • 3+ years of experience annotating scientific citations with appropriate terms from a controlled vocabulary (preferably MeSH).
  • 3+ years experience in constructing complex queries (preferably in PubMed) using advanced search features, including Boolean operators, search fields and search filters.
  • Ability to annotate bibliographic citations to the scientific literature with appropriate terms from a controlled vocabulary.
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.
  • Advanced knowledge of biomedical databases (especially PubMed/MEDLINE) and database search skills.
  • Use and administration of Jira, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams.
  • Mid-level data analysis in Excel, such as: Importing and exporting text and csv files, Pivot tables, Formulas, Charts, Conditional formatting.
  • Competitive salary based on experience and qualifications.
  • Flexible work environment with remote options.
  • Comprehensive health insurance coverage.
  • Retirement savings plan options.
  • Professional development opportunities.
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