What’s in Your Mailbox? Great Newsletters for Medical Communications
What email newsletters should you read to stay on top of the medical communications field? #medcomms #publications #medicalwriting
Medical Writing Essentials
This list of medical writing resources is updated as new resources become available or I become aware of them. If a link is no longer working or something is missing, …
Medical Writers Add Value
Want data to support hiring a medical writer? Peer-reviewed articles receiving medical writing support had better adherence to data reporting guidelines and were judged by reviewers to have higher-quality written …
Be Her Champion – An AMWA Discussion
It was a pleasure getting together with fellow members of the American Medical Writers Association for the Connecticut chapter dinner last week. My goal for leading the discussion was to …
Updated Guidelines From ICMJE for Medical Publications
It’s December so that must mean another update from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) on their guidelines for peer-reviewed medical publications. (The ICMJE guidelines are one of …
Learn about careers in Medical Writing
Next week, I will be a panelist on the Versatile PhD forum for a discussion on “PhD Careers in Medical Writing”. The discussion is free and open to all. I, …
Why publication guidelines were made
Ah, times have changed. An article in JAMA Internal Medicine reveals the practices that led to the 1967 publication of a 2-part literature review on “Dietary Fats, Carbohydrates and Atherosclerotic …
Do you use these 50 terms in psychology writing?
Psychology and psychiatry often study phenomena that are “open concepts,” which necessitates precision in the language used to describe the phenomena. This is the argument posed by the authors of …
GPP3: New guidelines for publishing company-sponsored medical research
Companies that sponsor medical research should pay attention to an updated guideline that was recently released. The document, Good Publication Practice for Communicating Company-Sponsored Medical Research“, more commonly known as …
The CMPP credential
You may be wondering what the CMPP designation means in my professional title. It stands for “Certified Medical Publication Professional” and is implemented by the International Society for Medical Publication …