How mentorship has created a special community and helped people develop their careers - Volume 30, Issue

Mentorship is an extremely rewarding relationship between two people with the goal of professional and personal development. Elemed’s Mentoring Academy in partnership with the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society (RAPS) combines three pillars –…

Growing the top and bottom line of your mind – an entrepreneurial journey as a joint venture with mentors - Volume 30, Issue

Having spent more than a decade in academia, it has been almost inherent to me to think of learning as exercising your IQ, thereby improving you practical and technical knowledge. It is quantifiable and can easily be described on your CV. The mentor…

Freelancing - Volume 33, Issue

Section Editor: Adriana Rocha Navigating my freelance journey while driving EMWA freelance activities Author: Laura A. Kehoe I didn’t plan to become a medical writer, but then again who does? It wasn’t, at the time, a career on the list of things…

Passing the Torch: The Sequel/Filling Big Shoes - Volume 29, Issue

For the last 8 years, I have been serving as Editor-in-Chief of Medical Writing. I feel that it’s time to pass the torch to a new person with new energy and fresh ideas. As I wrote in 2012, “This is yet another step in the evolution of the…

Innovative use of master protocols for pivotal studies in rare diseases - Volume 34, Issue

Recent years have seen the development of clinical study protocols that introduce more complex design features into the usual gold-standard randomised controlled trials (RCTs). Complex protocols are potentially useful for drug evaluation in the…

Five “translation” strategies to adapt technical content for lay audiences - Volume 33, Issue

Writing for lay audiences requires language that is understandable by readers without expertise in the subject matter at hand. This means carefully selecting, organising, wording, and supporting content, focusing on conveying relevant points in a…

Medical Writing in Portuguese: English to Portuguese translation: Know your audience! - Volume 33, Issue

Social Media: A tool that can benefit public health? - Volume 29, Issue

The global use of social media has changed access to health information, and the internet has become its primary source for the general public. However, judging health information on social networks remains difficult for nonmedical readers since…

The Crofter: Sustainable Communications - Volume 30, Issue

Crofting is a sustainable way of living It is cold and grey, and the wind is strong this morning, carrying a dash of rain. The crofter wakes up early. There is a sick sheep in need of care. A cow should give birth at any moment. There is a storm…

Unlocking new efficiencies: How structured content authoring is streamlining the production of clinical documents for the pharmaceutical industry - Volume 32, Issue

Current practice requires clinical and regulatory documents to be created and updated manually by medical writers throughout a product’s development. Conventionally, document content is unstructured, with freeform text, figures, and tables that the…