In this issue… The Medical Writing Business - Volume 24, Issue

As medical writers, we strive not just to survive but to thrive. Threats, opportunities, and complications come from many directions, and how to best position ourselves, our departments, and our companies requires much thought. Money is important…

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…

Writing for Patients - Volume 29, Issue

The first thing we must say is a huge “thank you” to Dr Juan Garcia Burgos and Mr Paul Blake for taking the time in an unprecedentedly manic year for the EMA to write a foreword for this issue of Medical Writing. The fact that they have prioritised…

Careers in medical writing - Volume 28, Issue

Medical writers are a breed apart. Unlike many other professions we come from a diverse range of educational and often early professional backgrounds. Yet we find our way to medical writing – or perhaps medical writing finds its way to us – and most…

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…

Non-clinical health writing - Volume 23, Issue

We medical writers have a unique and valuable skill set, which includes, most notably, the ability to understand and clearly communicate complex medical information. We are also experts at working with multifunctional teams, compiling detailed…

My First Medical Writing - Volume 31, Issue

I am pleased to share an article by an aspiring medical writer from Poland. Hanna KurlandaWitek finished her PhD in geoscience at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in microbiology. After working in an environmental consultancy for a few…

Medical Communications and Writing for Patients - Volume 29, Issue

I’m writing this to you from lockdown. Some of us will be out of lockdown by the time you read this, and perhaps others of us will be back in! Either way, I pray that you and your families are all safe and healthy. In this issue of Medical Writing,…

Post-approval regulatory writing - Volume 23, Issue

Teaching Medical Writing - Volume 27, Issue

Since 2014, I have offered a four-day course on academic writing for qualitative health researchers at the University of Southern Denmark. I tell the participants, mostly PhD students with backgrounds in the health professions, that “learning to…