Medical writing is an umbrella term to describe a number of writing roles that support the pharmaceutical industry.

At its core, medical writing is simply the creation of documents around a pharmaceutical product or medical procedure.

The document could be anything from a patient information leaflet, to a step-by-step submission protocol to apply for a drug licence, to a publication explaining how a new medical device works.

But it can also include writing content that’s important for marketing a particular drug or medical device, and explain how the product solves a problem by improving patients’ lives.

This type of medical writing is referred to as commercial medical writing and can include both marketing and advertising pieces that promote diagnostic or therapeutic products in a compliant manner.

Marketing materials include brochures, websites, advertisements, infomercials, print or digital ads, research papers/articles, and any other promotional content, such as social media posts.

In this video, Chinmaya Sadangi PhD (host of the Addictive Brain;    / @theaddictivebrain   and commercial medical writer) talks us through his experience of writing content for social media. Chinmaya explains what his role involves and how he broke into this career path from academia.

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