Educating the medical writer: A 5-year update - Volume 28, Issue

This article is a 5-year follow-up to a 2013 publication: On Educating the Medical Writer. The current study was performed to examine the evolution of degree programme titles, certificate programmes, and the current trend toward so-called…

Manuscript Writing - Volume 21, Issue

Guidelines for manuscript writing: Here to help Although sometimes maligned, guidelines make manuscript writing easier and increase the chances of getting published. A good set of guidelines can be used as a checklist (many even include…

Does standardisation improve animal testing of medical devices? - Volume 26, Issue

Abstract Compliance with European regulatory standards in animal research could be viewed as a way of dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s, rather than actually holding the research to scientific scrutiny. Standardisation is important and needs…

Post-approval regulatory writing - Volume 23, Issue

Writing for lay audiences - Volume 24, Issue

For most of us, medical writing is highly technical. We prepare regulatory or clinical documents or write materials targeted to medical doctors. Medical writing for lay audiences is different, and it does not come naturally to most of us because…

My First Medical Writing - Volume 27, Issue

After the debut of the first edition of this section, I was honoured to be contacted by many aspiring medical writers eager to contribute and to showcase their writing skills. Among them, Matías Rey-Carrizo did anamazing job in translating a complex…

My First Medical Writing - Volume 28, Issue

In this edition of My First Medical Writing, we welcome one of the first articles written by aspiring medical writer Mayya Sundukova. A physicist by training, Mayya pursued her PhD in neuroscience in SISSA, Italy, studying ion channels, and then…

Veterinary Medical Writing - Volume 32, Issue

Abstract Human medicine has recently seen a move away from the paternalistic patient-physician paradigm course to a collaborative one, where “shared decision-making” is a core principle. No longer a passive bystander, where their case management is…

AuthorAID: An international service and chance to serve - Volume 22, Issue

Medical and other researchers in developing countries conduct much valuable research. Yet difficulties in writing and publication often prevent this research from being widely known. AuthorAID (http://www.authoraid.info), a project of the…

Getting Your Foot in the Door - Volume 25, Issue

Welcome to Getting Your Foot in the Door or GYFD for short, the latest addition to MEW’s regular sections. It all started at the EMWA 2015 autumn meeting in The Hague. Derek Ho met up with the EMWA Executive Committee (EC) to talk about his idea of…