Transform Your Career: Build a Thriving Medical Writing Biz

Salaries vary widely, but in this lecture we'll look at what you might be able to expect.

The types of work available in the medical writing world, both as a freelancer and as a regular employee.

We'll dive in-depth into how to find work as a medical writer using widely available job boards like Indeed or Glassdoor.

If you are based outside the US, then use the most popular job boards in your country and apply this technique to it when you are looking for work.

Make the most of your current clinical practice by building medical writing experience within that role.

In the US, it's CE (continuing education), in Australia and parts of Europe it is CPD (continuing professional development), but the fact remains - large healthcare companies often offer these programs to their employees as an employee benefit.

As a healthcare professional already working for the company, you can take advantage of that fact to kickstart your writing career.

If you are in a life sciences field, rather than a clinical field, this lecture is for you. We'll look at how to use your scientific background to land writing work.

LinkedIn can be a huge asset but also a huge time waster. Learn what to do, but more importantly, what not to do when using LinkedIn.

Get new writing work by using company career and contributor pages, and learn how to find those pages!

Learn how to successfully pitch to potential companies, and get a downloadable template you can use to help you build your own successful pitch.

A quick overview of one of my favorite sites related to writing: https://www.theopennotebook.com

A portfolio is a key tool to successfully getting new work, especially when you're first getting started.

Like any new venture, the first part is usually the hardest. That's because you don't have any experience, but without experience, it's harder to get work. I'll show you how to start getting experience today!

This lecture will introduce you to image websites and also talk about copyright laws.

Check out these sites to get images:

https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/

https://pixabay.com/

https://www.pexels.com/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Editors are your lifeline, because they are the ones that can decide to give you more work or hire someone else. We'll learn how to best work with editors so you are at the top of the list of their writers.

In this video, I'll demonstrate how to write an article for the web. We'll write an outline together so you can see the process in depth.

You don't need to be an expert on SEO to be a writer, but it helps to understand the basics.

Continuing education is a huge market for work, and here we'll look at how to write an effective needs assessment that will get you hired with CE companies.

Other CE programs are monographs, and here again we'll go through an example so you can see firsthand how to lay one out.

Many continuing education programs are presentations, and here we'll look at how to go about building an effective CE presentation.

Another big market for medical communications is the drug industry, and virtually anything produced for them is required to go through Medical, Legal, and Regulatory (MLR) review. Here, we'll look at how to prep documents for MLR review.

While most full-time medical editors are not healthcare professionals, there are freelance jobs available editing peer-reviewed papers before they are published. In this video, I pull a passage from the CDC website and show you how to edit it to make it more concise and easier to read.

Get your references done faster so you can get paid and move on to the next job!

Can you use AI to help you write faster? The answer is YES!

This is a preview of my course Medical Writing with Artificial Intelligence.

In this section, we'll look at contracts and other legal issues related to medical writing.

Mostly for U.S. medical writers, this section reviews tax considerations when starting your medical writing business.