Skills And Tools Needed By Medical Writer

Medical writing is creating well structured scientific and research content for blogs, websites and magazines. It is profitable. The services of pharmacists with medical writing skill is highly needed. They are needed to write advertorial content for the pharmaceutical industry for their products, academia, and drug regulatory body among others. You can do it for others or for your own blog.

Skills Medical Writing Needs

As a medical writer, you need at least a degree in a medical field. This is not the law but it makes the job easy. Because medical writing is reading research work with margins and explaining it in sentences that are easy to understand. So if you don't understand those jargons, you may not be able to explain the meaning. If you have to read up the meaning of every jargon, you may end up spending more time writing one article. However, you don't need a big medical degree like a PhD.

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Good communication skills is the basis for any pharmacist. Having knowledge of pharmacy is one thing, understanding the topic is another and how to express your knowledge is the ultimate. If you miss this, forget it. There are online courses that teach medical writing and this is their main focus.

Writing with the right frame of mind is very important. There must be enthusiasm and concentration. Writing under fatigue can produce poor articles.

You must know your audience or what your audience wants. That will determine how to structure the work. This is especially so with their education background, gender and age.

If you want to blog or write for an online magazine or newspaper, your knowledge of search engine optimization (SEO) is very important. Without it, you won't make it long. There are free blogs where you can learn about this. And if you own the blog, you must learn more about blogging. How to share your links on social media and design the blog are very important. And finally how to make money from the blog.

Medical writing is one of the easiest career paths for pharmacists with a promising future. With the salary of pharmacy dropping every year and pharmacy school increasing, this downward trend will continue. It is time to diversify to a less competitive niche like medical writing.

Medical writing skills and tool

Tools Needed

The basic requirement is a typing device like a laptop or smartphone. They are also used to make inline medical research. You will also need hard copies of medical books.

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Data bundle may be needed if you need to send it to a client or upload it online. In a country like Nigeria, I have to add address to power as one of the key requirements because not all locations can boast of power. A portable electric generator or power bank to charge your phone. You don't really need a high end laptop but a 3gb RAM and two 2ghz speed processor will do. But the phone should be with at least 2gb RAM average processor with eight 2ghz speed.