Professional Medical Writing
How to Work Effectively with a Professional Medical Writer: 5 Key Factors
If you’ve put reasonable effort into the search and selection process, including the final step of checking references, chances are you’ve selected a medical writer who already works quite effectively with most clients. Nevertheless, to ensure the best results and make sure you don’t become the exception, the following issues should be addressed up front, at the beginning of the relationship:
How to Select a Professional Medical Writing Freelancer: The 7 Best Criteria
While there is no shortage of medical writers, selecting a competent, experienced professional medical writer best suited to your project from among thousands available for hire can be a challenge. By simply considering and prioritizing a handful of key selection criteria, you can establish an objective process and simplify the evaluation of the medical writers you have managed to find using the techniques in Part 1. The following are the 7 most
commonly used selection criteria for freelance medical writers:
How to Find a Professional Freelance Medical Writer: Top 5 Web Sources
While there really are countless methods for finding a medical writer to assist with your project, we will list and discuss only the top five internet-based techniques here. However, as with many things, hasty, last-minute searches often create disappointing results. Consider starting your search by “looking” for a freelance medical writer even before you need one. Let your colleagues and others in your professional network know that you need contract medical writers from time to time. Keep a handful of promising prospects ‘on file’ as you come across them. This will shorten the ‘search time’ to near zero when the need genuinely arises, so you can concentrate on the selection process and ensuring your choice is a good match for the project (and is available!). That said, once you find yourself needing to begin your search, here are five best places on the Internet to find a professional medical writer: