Connecting through screens: Navigating relationships with patients and advocacy groups in a digital world - Volume 33, Issue

As a Healthcare Publications Editor at Karger Publishers, I write, edit, and oversee the development of patient information resources in our Fast Facts for Patients series. Soft skills are vital in my role at Karger, where we are committed to…

Someone in your corner: Musings of a mentor and mentee - Volume 30, Issue

What is a modern mentorship, how do you make it work, and what does gardening have to do with it? Let us take you on a tour of the growing garden of our own modern mentorship, showing how we as a medical writer (Lillian Sandø; mentor) and a clinical…

How to write for health websites - Volume 30, Issue

Medical writing for the internet is unique because of the way people find and consume online content. Unlike with a medical brochure handed to someone by their doctor or a hard copy of the latest health book that they’ve purchased, individuals are…

Incoming President's Message - Volume 31, Issue

Dear EMWA friends and colleagues, as I draft this message, we are coming to the close of EMWA’s 53rd conference in Berlin, Germany. By all measures, it was a great conference with almost 400 delegates participating in our full programme…

Introducing EMWA’s new AI Working Group - Volume 32, Issue

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad umbrella term that refers to the use of computer algorithms to perform tasks that typically require human-like intelligence, such as reasoning, learning, decision-making, and perception. The new EMWA AI…

How can coaching or mentoring help you craft a sustainable freelance career - Volume 32, Issue

Crafting a sustainable freelance MedComms career can be challenging. As freelancers, we need to understand our individual requirements to design and implement a freelance business that will work from a personal and a professional perspective.…

One size doesn’t fit all: Tailored medical writing mentoring and training - Volume 30, Issue

While there is ultimately no “secret sauce” to mentoring, in this article I outline my nonnegotiables, which, although not rocket science, often take the mentor’s concerted effort to implement. Firstly, everyone is different. While hardly…

The Crofter: Sustainable Communications - Volume 30, Issue

Greetings from the croft! I think it’s a neat coincidence that I have the pleasure to write my first editorial to this edition of The Crofter in the Medical Writing special issue on mentorship. I don’t have an official mentor but ever since I…

Good Writing Practice - Volume 30, Issue

Grammatical misagreement in tense

I – Present, present perfect

Introduction

Each of the sections of a journal article contains anticipated conceptual components, which can be expressed by a specific verb tense for the perspective of time and the d…

Ongoing patient engagement research efforts at the Centre for Pharmaceutical Medicine Research, King’s College London - Volume 34, Issue

Research efforts within the Centre for Pharmaceutical Medicine Research, King’s College London, are advancing patient engagement in medicine development and communications through evidence generation. This article presents the ongoing work of two…