How to write about coronavirus: Best practices for health writers - Volume 30, Issue

FOCUS ON FACTS AND EVIDENCE-BASED REPORTING 

what we know, not what we think might happen

AVOID FEAR-MONGERING

watch your language

Modern mentorship: Developing medical writing mentor-mentee relationships in the virtual world - Volume 30, Issue

Mentorship is often viewed as a traditional personal relationship model, where the mentor meets face-to-face with a mentee within the same organisation or group.  However, I have been mentoring medical writers success fully for many years using…

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…

Mentorship from the inside - Volume 30, Issue

In this article we interview Jose Francisco Sanchez Herrero from the Germán Trias i Pujol Institute in Badalona. He is Selma’s tutor and gives us a glimpse of what it is like to be a mentor in an academic setting. If there is one thing we learned…

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…

Mentors and mentees in medical writing: A very particular set of (soft) skills - Volume 33, Issue

Being a mentor or a mentee can be fulfilling and rewarding. In this article, we look at the role and relationship of mentors and mentees, and the importance of using soft skills within the mentor/mentee dynamic. Individually tailored and productive…

Wait! What? There’s stuff missing from the scholarly record? - Volume 31, Issue

The scholarly record is an ever-evolving network – or graph – of truth assertions on which each discipline bases its discussions, and against which each discipline measures its progress. But what if the scholarly record is missing a significant…

Pharmaceutical clinical trials transparency and privacy - Volume 29, Issue

With the introduction of new clinical trial transparency regulations around the world, transparency functions have had to adapt to a range of reporting requirements. In 2007, the FDA Amendments Act (FDAAA) established requirements for trial sponsors…

International teams: How to survive a long-distance work relationship among medical writers - Volume 31, Issue

How does a team of medical writers working in different countries navigate different time zones and cultures to get their work done remotely? In this interview, a team of six medical writers and one editor working at P95, a private research…

Building resilience: Navigating challenges and thriving among the demands of regulatory writing - Volume 33, Issue

Regulatory writing is a demanding yet rewarding profession in which writers help pave the way for groundbreaking healthcare innovations that improve the lives of patients. However, as critical as our work is, regulatory writing is full of challenges…