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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC WRITING AND
MEDICAL WRITING
An Academic presentation by Dr. Nancy Agens,
Head, Technical Operations, Pepgra
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Today's Discussion
Introduction
OUTLINE OF TOPICS
Process to Improve the Writing Skills Medical
Writing Regulatory Medical Writing Medical
Journalism Associations of Medical Writing
Conclusion
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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 readers confidence in a paper, hence to
overcome these hurdles, the scientific writer
must have clear idea on what he is going to write.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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