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Vaccines and Immunotherapies
Entering medical communications as a non-native English speaker
Volume 27, Issue 1 - Vaccines and Immunotherapies
Entering medical communications as a non-native English speaker
Author: Derek K Ho
Abstract
The third EMWA Internship Forum will be held on May 3, 2018 at the forthcoming spring conference in Barcelona. As the language of international medical communications is almost exclusively English, have you ever wondered what it takes for a non-native English speaker to break into the field?
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