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Licensed Physician (MD/DO) - Freelance AI Trainer

Internal MedicineContract

Listed compensation

$100/hr

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Job Description

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Mindrift connects specialists with project-based AI opportunities for leading tech companies, focused on testing, evaluating, and improving AI systems. Participation is project-based.

What This Opportunity Involves

We’re looking for US-based, actively practicing physicians (MD/DO) to evaluate clinical EHR vignettes for a medical AI evaluation program. General and internal medicine are our main focus. While each project involves unique tasks, contributors may:

Evaluate clinical EHR vignettes paired with a question, a proposed answer, and a distractor “trap” answer across diagnosis and treatment tasks, spanning cardiovascular, nervous, hematologic, respiratory, digestive, urinary, reproductive, musculoskeletal, and integumentary systems;

Score the clinical reasoning quality of benchmark items: vignette accuracy and completeness, whether the vignette gives the answer away, answer correctness and gradeability, and trap quality;

Check whether the reasoning chain reaches the answer from vignette facts alone, correct reasoning traces, and write short rationales;

Work within three independent blind reads, followed by physician adjudication. Real clinical complexity only. You’re improving the AI tools you’ll eventually use yourself.

If you’re a practicing physician ready to take on this challenging and engaging project, join us!

What We Look For

This opportunity is a good fit for US-based physicians open to part-time, non-permanent projects. Ideally, contributors will have:

Medical degree (MD or DO) and an active, unrestricted US medical license (verified with the issuing medical board);

Board certification or completed residency training, with recent direct patient care (attending-level preferred);

Broad, multi-system diagnostic and treatment experience (internal, family, emergency, or hospital medicine);

Strong clinical reasoning: differential diagnosis, next-step management, and application of evidence-based guidelines;

Prior experience in medical AI evaluation, clinical content or exam-question review, or medical annotation/QA (a plus);

Strong written English (C1+).

This opportunity is not fit to medical students, unlicensed medical graduates, non-physician clinicians (NPs, PAs, nurses, pharmacists), or non-clinical healthcare titles.

Project Time Expectations

For this project, tasks are estimated to require around 10-20 hours per week during active phases, based on project requirements. This is an estimate, not a guaranteed workload, and applies only while the project is active. Tasks must be submitted by the deadline and meet the listed acceptance criteria to be accepted.

Compensation

Paid per accepted task. Your rate depends on the qualification tier you reach and how efficiently you complete tasks — up to the equivalent of $100/hr. Because payment is per approved task, a faster pace raises your effective hourly rate.

Key Responsibilities

Physicians will evaluate clinical EHR vignettes and score the clinical reasoning quality of benchmark items for a medical AI program. They will also perform blind reads and physician adjudications to ensure the accuracy and completeness of AI-generated medical content.

Requirements

Candidates must be US-based, actively practicing physicians (MD/DO) with an active, unrestricted medical license and board certification. Strong clinical reasoning skills and experience in internal, family, emergency, or hospital medicine are required.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
5+ years of experience

Certifications

Board Certification (preferred)

Key Skills

Quality assuranceEHR evaluationClinical content reviewEmergency medicineFamily medicine

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Licensed Physician (MD/DO) - Freelance AI Trainer at Mindrift a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Internal Medicine — ranked against 1,293 active Internal Medicine listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include remote work flexibility.

Internal Medicine — Physician Career Context

Mindrift holds gold-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 86/100, 8 active listings.

Of the 50 active Internal Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 8% are remote, 58% have no call, 70% require no weekends — this position is remote.

Internal Medicine by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Work-life score6.4 / 10 · above average in internal medicineranked against 1,293 Internal Medicine listingslisting-based score, 0–10
Work settingremotepeers: 8% remote · 58% no call · 70% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedUS Physician listings: 26% state a sign-on bonus (median $50k) · 15% offer loan repayment22,637 active listings, Oct 2026
Internal Medicine pay trend−2.3% vs prior quarter—through Sep 2026
Mindriftgold tier, 86/100Top Employers work-life index8 active listings
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index (1,293 Internal Medicine listings), Top Employers work-life index; as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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