EMWA news - Volume 21, Issue

News from the EMWA Website Manager   New role At the recent EMWA conference held in Cyprus, I assumed the position of EMWA Website Manager. While this is a daunting task, it is a challenge I am pleased to take on. To ensure that I was in a…

Medical Writing in Spanish: Medical Writing - Volume 33, Issue

Microediting – details matter Quality, authority, and reputation: The value of microediting - Volume 27, Issue

Microediting aims to ensure consistency aswell as accuracy within a document and across a document series. Also known as technical editing or mechanical editing, it is an important stage in editing, needed to gain and retain a reader’s interest and…

The moving image and your business - Volume 21, Issue

Using online video to promote business is widespread, but the skills required to make effective use of the medium are relatively rare. Dr Phil Moran discusses some basic ways to improve video production, ranging from advice on the technology through…

Social media and the rise of predatory journals: A case report - Volume 30, Issue

This is a report of our experience with a predatory journal that invited us to join them after having seen our winning essays on how to identify predatory journals. We applied the system we recommended therein to investigate the true nature of the…

Lessons from building an accredited medical conference: Design and delivery - Volume 25, Issue

Participation in meetings and events by healthcare professionals is part of their continuing professional development, and it is a requirement for organisers to gain accreditation for continuing professional development in order to attract…

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…

The 2023 CORE Reference Utility Survey: Perceptions on a best practice tool for globally applicable clinical study reporting and provision of continuing professional development resources for the regulatory medical writing community - Volume 33, Issue

CORE Reference offers globally applicable resources for clinical study reporting, including a user manual and a mapping tool, and continuous professional development (CPD) resources. This report presents the results of the 2023 Utility Survey conduct…

English Grammar and Style - Volume 25, Issue

Good Writing Practice Writing abstracts for congresses (2) Tables and Figures Unlike manuscript abstracts, congress abstracts may often include tables or figures, or both. Many congresses allow these to be submitted alongside the abstract text,…

Erratum - Volume 23, Issue

The WebscoutKarin Eichele   http://journal.emwa.org/regulatory-writing-basics/the-webscout/ We would like to acknowledge an error in the above section in Vol. 23 No. 2. The correction has been made to the online version of the article. The…