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		<title>Tips for Freelance Medical Writers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freelance Medical Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Get Qualified. Both your scientific background and writing skills need to be up to par in order to be a freelance medical writer. You will need at least a bachelor’s degree in science, though you may want to consider getting a master’s or Ph.D., depending on your field. Read books on grammar and take [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">1. <strong>Get Qualified</strong>. Both your scientific background and writing skills need to be up to par in order to be a freelance medical writer. You will need at least a bachelor’s degree in science, though you may want to consider getting a master’s or Ph.D., depending on your field. Read books on grammar and take writing courses to improve your writing. It’s also important to have good writers review your writing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">2. <strong>Gain Experience</strong>. Many medical writers work for a few years in a related industry such as a medical communications agency or pharmaceuticals to gain practical marketing experience and expertise in the field before going freelance. You will understand important skills like branding, messaging, and publication planning and learn how to communicate with different stakeholders.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">3. <strong>Know What You’re Getting Into</strong>. Freelance writing is a dream for many people, but you should know what to expect before you start. Since most freelance writers work from home, you must be disciplined about your work. Try to keep the same hours each day. Work in a specific room where you won’t be distracted. Don’t spend the whole day in your pajamas. And be prepared for fluctuations in work – sometimes you may be very busy, but there may also be times when you don’t have as much work.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">4. <strong>Decide on a Field</strong>. Your background may help you easily decide what types of medical fields to write for. If you’re not sure, you should research different types of medical writing jobs on job search sites like monster.com. This will help you get an idea of the various positions available in order to decide which ones interest you.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">5. <strong>Market Yourself</strong>. Create a professional website for yourself – you may even consider hiring a web designer to make one for you. Put writing samples on the site, even material that hasn’t been published. You might also want to set up a professional social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, and/or LinkedIn to further market your services.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">6. <strong>Find Clients</strong>. The best way to find potential clients is to contact them yourself. You should shoot for 50 e-mails or phone calls a day. This may sound like a lot, but you will probably only receive one new client for every fifty attempts you make. You should also check online job boards, Craigslist, and specific freelance sites frequently. After a few weeks, your client base will start to grow.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">7. <strong>Do Your Best </strong>– If you want to keep your clients’ business, you need to write excellent material. Just one mistake can cost you a job. Even if you have to spend extra time on your first assignments, this will make a good impression that will likely lead to repeat business. In the long run, you won’t have to do as much marketing because you will establish working relationships with your clients. If you’re really good, they might even recommend you to their peers in the medical field.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Lindsey Webber is a School Counselor for high school students. She has been practicing for 9 years. Lindsey also owns the site <a href="http://www.mastersincounseling.org">Masters in Counseling</a>.</p>
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		<title>Medical Vs BioScience Communication</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freelance Medical Writer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BioScience Communication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever medical communication involves bioscience communication along with it then it results in the over all growth of the productivity. Bioscience communication involves specialization in the field being involved. The characterization of giving personal attention to individuals would get the company al lot of clients in its part. This would stay in the reputation of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whenever medical communication involves bioscience communication along with it then it results in the over all growth of the productivity. Bioscience communication involves specialization in the field being involved. The characterization of giving personal attention to individuals would get the company al lot of clients in its part. This would stay in the reputation of the company always.</p>
<p>In today’s fast moving world, people fail to get personal attention and thus they lack confidence that they would get good service providers. When the service provides use bioscience communication, then this would give the clients a great feel that they are the boss. This would make them much confident that their work would be effective and complete too. In addition, bioscience has showed its unique nature in analyzing the strategy and other values.</p>
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		<title>Skills that One Must Possess for BioScience Communication</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freelance Medical Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Skills that One Must Possess of BioScience Communication
1.	One must have a science background to understand science, technology, medicine, and medical terms. At least he or she must be able to perceive the terms being mentioned. Unless or until he or she understands the meaning or, gets the real aspect of what it means they would [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Skills that One Must Possess of BioScience Communication</p>
<p>1.	One must have a science background to understand science, technology, medicine, and medical terms. At least he or she must be able to perceive the terms being mentioned. Unless or until he or she understands the meaning or, gets the real aspect of what it means they would not be able to prepare huge regulatory documents or short educational documents.</p>
<p>2.	Writing skill must be trained well to enable them write apt statements, as they must comply with standards. Writing or spinning around the topic would not be needed in a medical writing. Their writing must speak the specifications, reports, patient records rather than being linguistic in sense. Hence, they must be trained with lot of knowledge so that they include apt words with summarized concepts in their entire documentation.</p>
<p>3.	Educational degree is the most important qualification a medical writer must own. They must definitely hold a basic degree in science or medicine. Sometimes marketing medical writing would require degrees in English and journalism. The strictest qualification-requiring job would be that of scientific medical writing. Marketing medical writing would not require so strict qualification.</p>
<p>4.	The most important thing in which the medical writers must be trained is timeliness. He or she must be trained well to keep up time to submit documentation. They are no just simple writing; they must be submitted to companies for the products approval. Therefore, delay in such submission would have a chain of avalanche effects. One must make sure that their work should only give their best to the company or the buyer and not loss to them.</p>
<p>5.	They must give out accurate result of documentation including all details of the specifications and technical terms to be involved in the documentation. A medical writer must have the skill to analyze the accurate points to be included in the documentation.</p>
<p>6.	One more important thing is that a medical writer must develop is his communication skill to be developed. He or she must be good communicators to get all the details needed for the documentation. They must learn this skill specially because; they are not going to communicate with just buyers but to professional doctors or scientist. So this would require an additional training and separate practice to learn the discipline of communication with the doctors.</p>
<p>7.	It is required to have perspective research in the documents given for reference. Every single word would have its own significance to be placed in the documentation. Hence, careless overlook at the documents would result in a documentation that would never give a complete knowledge about the medicine or the biologics being involved in. Therefore, the medical writer must be trained carefully to analyze every word or every document presented for reference.</p>
<p>8.	Medical writer must be able to understand the standard that the pharmaceutical company expects form the writer. He must learn all the specifications and format to meet the standards logical organization, only then he will be able to be authorized legally for the documentation. Else, the documentation would not comply with the standards.</p>
<p>9.	Above all things mentioned above, it is very important that the documentation is vivid. It is not important about what sort of linguistic effects are being used. However, it is important that what sorts of information are being included in them. Hence, one must be sure to take care of the contents rather than their language. Simple and clear language would be more than enough to express the best information. Lucidity is essential than pompous writing.</p>
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		<title>Importance of Communication</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Freelance Medical Writer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To get a complete scientific documentation is not an easy job without the following needs;
•	Any person involved in writing documentation in bioscience he must effectively communicate all the reports, statistics with the person concerned and then start with the documentation being involved.
•	The documentation written must be nothing but a result of bioscience communication.
•	Either it be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To get a complete scientific documentation is not an easy job without the following needs;</p>
<p>•	Any person involved in writing documentation in bioscience he must effectively communicate all the reports, statistics with the person concerned and then start with the documentation being involved.</p>
<p>•	The documentation written must be nothing but a result of bioscience communication.</p>
<p>•	Either it be proofreading or translation all these would require effective communication.</p>
<p>•	Document must have discussed the entire theme from all users’ perspective and give the scope of theme in all dimensions.</p>
<p>•	It is also important to make sure that the document meets all the criteria of any regulations or any international standard meant for it.</p>
<p>•	It must also comply with the regular structure and orientation of text along with content format.<br />
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		<title>BioScience Communication</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bioscience communication is a specialization of medical communication. Bioscience communication has started its growth worldwide. Many facilities lead to bioscience communications. Medical science deals with several clients form the entire globe. It involves documenting several products belonging to different geographical locations. It also varies on the types of products they deal with. Paying attention to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Bioscience communication </strong>is a specialization of medical communication. Bioscience communication has started its growth worldwide. Many facilities lead to bioscience communications. Medical science deals with several clients form the entire globe. It involves documenting several products belonging to different geographical locations. It also varies on the types of products they deal with. Paying attention to specialized products in a particular organization is called as bioscience communications.</p>
<p>BioScience Communications involves activities such as;<br />
1.    Translation<br />
2.    Documentation of scientific articles<br />
3.    Proof Reading.<br />
4.    Reviewing<br />
5.    Collecting<br />
6.    Report Writing<br />
7.    Data Maintenance<br />
8.    Data Transaction Maintenance<br />
9.    Central authority</p>
<p>This is nothing but an optimization of the medial, technical, or even scientific communication being involved to write scientific documentations. Also today, the growing internet and several software solutions make linguistic learning easier than yesterday. No longer have they stayed difficult both in grammar and in spellings. Even a moderately learned person could do documentation and have software installed to check his sentence structure and grammar. World moves such fast in linguistic analysis and implementation.</p>
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