- Continuing education for healthcare professionals
- Grant proposals
- Health communication
- Journalism
- Marketing/Advertising/PR
- Patient education
- Publications for professional audiences (non‑peer reviewed)
- Regulatory writing
- Sales training (biotech or pharma industry)
- Scientific publications (peer‑reviewed journals)
Medical communication positions in writing and editing vary greatly across industries, companies, organizations, and other entities.
Medical writers can find positions with a variety of employers, reaching a multitude of audiences with different communication needs and styles. These may include
With the constant advancement and innovation in medicine and health care, the need to communicate about research findings, products, devices, and services is growing. Medical writers are increasingly in demand to convey new information to health care professionals as well as the general public.
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Sites such as Salary.com, PayScale.com, and Glassdoor.com indicate that a salary range for a junior‑level or beginning medical writer is $52,000 to $80,000 annually and a salary range for a medical editor is $40,000 to $80,000 annually.
While medical writers come from all educational and professional backgrounds, they do share some traits. Medical writers have an interest and flair for both science and writing. They also have a clear understanding of medical concepts and ideas and are able to present data and its interpretation in a way the target audience will understand.
Medical writers often work with doctors, scientists, and other subject matter experts (SMEs) to create documents that describe research results, product use, and other medical information. They also ensure that documents comply with regulatory, publication, or other guidelines in terms of content, format, and structure.
The expertise and contributions of medical writers and editors can be found throughout the medical community. Examples of their work include
FSP Case Study: Urgent medical writing need to assist with dual FDA submissions
- Has writers in more than 25 countries with knowledge of local regulations and the ability to develop multi-lingual communications as needed
- Offers a single point of contact and the flexibility to pull together the right team with the right areas of focus
- Have an average of more than eight years of writing experience, while senior writers have over 15 years of experience
- Manage and optimize document development to meet timelines
- Offers guidance with open advice on clinical documentation, including publishing and submission readiness
Read our capabilities brochure to learn how Parexel's newly enhanced Medical Writing Solutions can help you optimize and better manage the development of documents and communications from early clinical development through commercialization.
Working as a flexible partner, our Medical Writing Solutions team thoughtfully develops accurate messaging for a range of audiences. Whether it’s developing protocols and informed consent forms or a new drug application, we dive into the details to deliver it all with full regulatory compliance.
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Read our recent article from the Volume 28, Issue 1 (March 2019) of Medical Writing, where Julia Cooper, James Newman, Garima Pallavi and Linda Yih discuss their experiences in hiring, training, and developing medical writers at all levels, from internships through to mid-level career and into management.
EMWA Regulatory Matters Vol 29 Issue 1 March 2020 - J Wolfe and S Takidar
Through our flexible outsourcing solutions, our more than 800 writers are able to seamlessly build on (or completely develop) your scientific, technical, medical, regulatory, and commercialization communications.
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This profession has a high salary, thus, if you decide to have such a career, you will not only save lives, but you will also always have money to pay the bills.
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Whether you work at a public or private hospital, being a physician has many perks due to the prestige that comes with this career. High-level healthcare professionals are worth their weight in gold.
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The founder, Irene Farré, has more than 12 years of industry expertise – research and medical writing on oncology, cardiovascular, and GI diseases in biotechnology and multinational pharmaceutical settings.
I have had the opportunity to work with Irene for several months and it has been pleasure to collaborate with her. She is very professional and reactive.
IF Medical Writing helps you in every step of your research: from the publication of your work, through the preclinical development, until the preparation of regulatory documents to develop and market your products.
I have been impressed by her ability to quickly understand the company context and request enabling to provide solution fast and straight to the point.
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The founder, Irene Farré, has more than 12 years of industry expertise – research and medical writing on oncology, neuroscience, cardiovascular, and GI diseases in biotechnology, multinational pharmaceutical, and medical devices settings.
Irene prepared a PowerPoint presentation for a KOL meeting with a very short deadline. I was extremely satisfied with the result and found that it was very easy to interact with her as she was very flexible and accommodating. The deadlines were respected, and she promptly returned all my phone calls and emails. Irene has shown an excellent technical and scientific knowledge and I will for sure use her services again in the future.
I had the occasion to work with Irene to write the Literature Review, State of the Art and our Clinical Evaluation Reports according to the MEDDEV 2.7.1 rev. 4. We manufacture class-III Medical Devices and three lines of products had to be completely updated within a limited time. The task was huge and having Irene working as a medical writer was a real asset for the team. She knows very well the MEDDEV, and she took time at the beginning to understand the products’ applications