Tag: #MedicalWriting
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Reporting on race and ethnicity
One of the recent hot topics in medical research is the role of race and ethnicity in health disparities. If you look on PubMed, you will find tons of literature describing how race and ethnicity affect:🫀 life expectancy⚕️ access to quality medical care💉 healthcare hesitancy🏥 clinical trial recruitment Many pharmaceutical companies now invest in research…
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Medical Education: Learning objectives
📢 One of the key responsibilities of Medical Affairs departments in pharma is to communicate medical value of the company’s products through medical education. 🎨 It can take a variety of forms, from infographics and information leaflets, to scientific and educational sessions at an international meeting. In fact, because the learning tools are endless, so…
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Storytelling tips, Part 4 – Discussion
First, let’s get the disclosures out of the way: There is no magic formula for writing the discussion section, as it very much depends on what your study found. 😄 🌟 However, one can’t overestimate the importance of having a good discussion section. Discussion puts the results into context and draws a bottom line under…
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Storytelling tips, Part 3 – Results
📰 The results section of a primary clinical manuscript is traditionally less flexible in terms of structure and flow than the same section of a preclinical paper. Your story flow is predefined before you even begin writing: first describe the study design 🛣️ , then the patient population 🗣️ , then the primary endpoint results,…
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Storytelling tips, Part 2 – Introduction
(A general note first: these tips are tailored to writing a primary research manuscript describing the results of a clinical study; however, you may find that a lot of advice can be translated to other publication types) 💡 Introduction or background section lays foundation for the whole study. It should inspire the reader’s curiosity about…
