Medical writing is an art of writing documents which require medical knowledge and background information about a particular topic that mostly relates to scientific situation.  It can be the general content writing for any science/medical topic OR it is related to writing factual documents of clinical trials to be submitted to regulatory authorities.  In past few years, the demand of medical writing and the people carrying the skills has been increased with a huge level because of the drug discovery.  In pharmaceutical industry, medical writing has occupied a pivotal space as regulatory authorities demand properly written document for drug approval process. Therefore the criticality of medical writing cannot be ignored as accuracy is something regulatory authorities’ demand of. The writer who is responsible for writing such documents should be having a proper life sciences degree along with thorough clarity of area on which the writer is planning to write document on. Following are the major attributes which a writer should have to be a competent writer.

1.      Complete Domain Knowledge
2.      Audience Knowledge
3.      Good Writing Skills including English
4.      Specification towards Data Integrity
5.      Clarity
6.      Full Skills of Literature Search
7.      Unbiased
8.      Interpersonal Skills

Medical writing demands the understanding of the technical guidelines for that particular content along with picking up the correct English which would depend upon the region where in document is to be submitted. Medical writer should have excellent data interpretation skills so that whatever the tables and figures are presenting, the writer should be able to express those in correct manner which is easily understandable by everyone. While writing such documents, good clinical practices are also very important to critically follow to represent any data or results.  Therefore, there is a proper flow of process which a writer should keep in mind while receiving any medical writing project.

Step 1: Understanding the project clearly with the client’s expectations.

Step 2: Making first draft to show how exactly are you planning the project to be done

Step 3: Thoroughly following the client’s suggestions and comments

Step 4: Review and Quality Checks internally to avoid English and content error and maintain the quality

Step 5: Asking openly if any more changes client wants to be done before final submission of the document.

If a writer is religiously following all the above suggestions, then there are no chances of errors and scope of submitting the best quality document increases.

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