Medical Writer

Description:

Comprised of specialised account handlers and medical writers, the Medical Education team manages a variety of science-based educational projects targeted at physicians and internal audiences on behalf of global pharmaceutical companies.

Our work involves planning, developing, tracking and managing the review process for abstracts and presentations for medical congresses and manuscripts for peer-reviewed medical journals.

We support a range of autoimmune diseases and also manage both the global and US publication plans to support the treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive and ultimately fatal disease of the lungs that occurs mainly in elderly ex-smokers. This involves planning, developing, tracking and managing the review process for abstracts and presentations for medical congresses and manuscripts for peer-reviewed medical journals.

In addition, we organise educational events for physicians (both satellite symposia at medical congresses and stand-alone meetings) and deliver a modular e-learning programme for staff working on the product.

Primary Responsibilities
 

• Drafting, editing and referencing scientific/medical peer review publications (e.g. abstracts, posters, oral presentations, primary manuscripts on pre-clinical and Phase I-III data, reviews, book chapters) in line with guidance from authors
• Attaining and maintaining an in-depth knowledge of therapeutic areas and products of relevance to client accounts
• Checking and editing documents provided by other writers to ensure accuracy
• Managing approval of publications in line with client’s working practices and international guidelines
• Incorporating comments and answering queries on publications from authors and company reviewers
• Developing speaker briefs and slides for satellite symposia, stand-alone physicians meetings, and on-line physician education activities
• Publications planning, including gap analyses and needs assessments, development of scientific platforms and messages, and proposing content and target congresses/journals for publications
• Managing multiple editorial projects to deadlines and keeping tracking documents up to date
   

Experience Required

Senior Medical Writer
 

• Candidates must hold a Science degree, ideally in the biological sciences.
• Minimum experience: 3 years as a writer in an agency, including work on manuscripts or review articles.
• Must have excellent expertise in understanding and communicating scientific information in prose and PowerPoint.
• Must be seeking a role that is predominantly writing (not editing).