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Career shift: Employment to freelancing - Volume 28, Issue

There are often social stereotypes and mental barriers associated with a decision to be a freelancer. For me, flexibility and autonomy are the main values for choosing the path of freelancing; however, high standards and work ethics must be…

Manuscript Writing - Volume 27, Issue

Preparing clear, convincing scientific manuscripts is a challenge. In my experience, the biggest problem for most writers is not an inability to write well in English but rather a lack of clarity regarding what their article is supposed to be about.…

Estimands – closing the gap between study design and analysis - Volume 27, Issue

Estimands represent a new way to look at key aspects of clinical research and will become increasingly important for medical writers. Estimands are detailed definitions of quantities to be estimated using clinical trial data, which make allowance…

Medical Communications and Writing for Patients - Volume 31, Issue

In this issue, the Medical Communications and Writing for Patients section features two articles. The first piece, by Simon Linacre, is a summary of the excellent work just completed by the Med Comms SIG. They have devised, run, and collated the res…

Using social media as the patient's voice in the benefit-risk assessment of drugs: Are we ready? - Volume 24, Issue

There is no doubt that the public interest in healthcare-related issues is growing. This, coupled with the surge in the use of social media, leaves the pharmaceutical industry with a set of unique opportunities and challenges. The screening and…

Subcontracting: Not for the faint of heart - Volume 28, Issue

Subcontracting can be the answer to a successful freelancer’s prayers, or the opportunity to work harder than you have ever worked before for less money than you made when you were a struggling newbie. The potential advantages of subcontracting are…

Regulatory submissions of non-interventional post-authorisation safety studies - Volume 26, Issue

The post-authorisation safety study (PASS) is a pharmacovigilance activity often required as a post-marketing commitment to establish a safety profile or address specific safety concerns. An imposed PASS must be submitted in common technical…

Fifth EMWA freelance business survey - Volume 25, Issue

Following surveys in 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2012, the fifth EMWA Freelance Business Survey was conducted in 2015. 181 respondents, most based in Europe, completed the survey. The findings indicate that freelance medical writing and related activities…

Home office: Yay or nay? - Volume 31, Issue

In the first quarter of 2022, Bioforum performed an anonymous internal survey among its medical writers to understand if our employees would like to return to a physical office or prefer to stay in the home office despite the lifting of most of the…

Changes to working practices in medical communications during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from two surveys - Volume 31, Issue

Successive waves of COVID-19 have altered opinions and working practices. We conducted a survey in early 2020 among 759 members of the medical communications community, recruited via our network, seeking their experiences, opinions, and insights.…

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