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
Highlights of GPP 2022
The International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) just announced that the latest iteration of their Good Publication Practice document (GPP 2022) for industry-sponsored medical publications is available. Read on for what’s new and what’s changed in the latest guideline.
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 …
How Medical Communicators Can Counteract Gender Bias in STEM
Did you know that 52% of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and medicine) fields report experiencing gender bias, while only 2% of men in STEM do? My colleague, Priyanka …
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 …
Less Text, More Pictures – Visual Abstracts
In the fast-paced world in which we live, it seems that nobody has time to read a full research article any more. With so much reading done on mobile screens …
Updated Publishing Guidelines – What’s New
The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recently updated their guidelines for publishing in the scientific literature. The ICMJE guidelines, or as they’re more formally known “Recommendations for the …
Guidelines for Conference Materials
A group of colleagues working in the medical publications field just posted a preprint (not peer-reviewed) manuscript on Good Practice for Conference Abstracts and Presentations (GP-CAP). The paper works off …