DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC WRITING AND MEDICAL WRITING An Academic presentation by Dr. Nancy Agens, Head, Technical Operations, Pepgra Group:Â www.pepgra.com Email: sales.cro@pepgra.com
Today's Discussion OUTLINE OF TOPICS
Introduction Process to Improve the Writing Skills Medical Writing Regulatory Medical Writing Medical Journalism Associations of Medical Writing Conclusion
Introduction Scientific writing skills involve conveying the necessary information about a technology in various fields of life sciences such as, biotechnology, medicine, and engineering for publication or to explore new ideas to educationalists and other professionals. It conveys information on novel innovations and theories which is essential for publishing and marketing academic journals and so on. The purpose of scientific writing companies is to provide the useful information on a paper to grab the attention of readers and to make them understand the content. The poor writing will erode reader’s confidence in a paper, hence to overcome these hurdles, the scientific writer must have clear idea on what he is going to write.
Process to Improve the Writing Skills In a process to improve the writing skills, a scientific writer must have clear idea to understand the topic on what he is going to write to keep the readers interest high. A writer has to come up with a stepwise logical explanation of the scientific paper including various scientific terminologies where ever required. Scientific writer can explain their ideas through providing various examples and visuals like graphs, tables, flowcharts, diagrams etc. It is also important for every scientific writer to further enhance their writing skills by reading various relevant books to get more information and ideas how to design the manuscript.
Medical Writing Medical Writing Services involves writing documents related to drug regulatory submissions, publishing articles particularly for health magazines, creating content for healthcare websites, journal manuscripts and so on. A Medical Writer should have thorough knowledge of medical terminologies and understanding of medical concepts which should reach to the target group like students, researchers, medical doctors, scientists and so on. As there are different types of medical writing branches to convey the medical information to audience like clinicians, scientists, researchers, nurses and insurance adjusters, there is an enormous scope for medical writing in Pharmaceutical Affairs and healthcare communication market.
Regulatory Medical Writing Regulatory medical writing services usually involves in writing a document which is essential to obtain the grant from regulatory authorities like FDA, DCGI, EMEA etc. Once a grant is sanctioned, the medical writer is asked to write a clinical trial protocol, investigator brochures, informed consent forms etc. for conducting the clinical trials services. Once the clinical study is completed, the demand for medical writer arises for writing on the drug to market it to gain the patency on to post-marketing documentation.
Medical Journalism Medical journalism is another sector of medical writing, usually; in this the written articles are mostly read or referred by a large public group. These are written on regular basis in a simple and understandable language to a magazine or newspaper to grab the attention of all kinds of readers but mostly by researchers. Medical writers also write for medico marketing of pharmaceutical companies and biotechnology companies for the promotional advertisement of the monograph products, training classes through web content study material, seminars and other manuscripts and review articles.
Associations of Medical Writing Unlike scientific writing, medical writing has various associations to perform its activities. In advanced countries like US and UK the medical writing services uk has emerged extensively through an organization of American Medical Writers Association (AMWA), which was established 70 years ago. Another association, European Medical Writers Association (EMWA) is practised in 39 different countries globally and from outside Europe 12 countries follow EMWA practise.
Conclusion Though there is difference between scientific writing services and medical writing, one can confer that both sail in the same boat to give significant information to the scientific world and give a scope to all the budding scientists in their career.
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