Working with Eleanor Steele: The MedComms Mentor

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Uncover the craft foundations that underpin a sustainable career in medical writing

Become a confident medical writer, able to handle anything this varied career throws at you!

In this course, we will:

  • Review the ABCs (and Ds…) of good medical writing

  • Understand how to use references efficiently and responsibly

  • Explore the three levels of content development

  • Consider practical approaches to integrate these into your individual processes

  • Introduce resources and techniques to develop your writing further throughout your career

The ultimate guide for medical writers on how to approach any brief with confidence

This course will ensure you feel confident that whenever you receive a brief, you’ll be able to deliver what’s needed, and also develop your medical writing skills.

By completing it, you will:

  • Understand why you need a good brief

  • Summarise the elements of a good brief

  • Develop your process from getting a brief to completing the required project

  • Create strategies to overcome potential briefing pitfalls

The ultimate guide to efficient and strategic self-editing for medical writers

Become confident in your self-editing skills, so everything you submit is polished.

In this course, we will:

  • Identify what you need to check for different kinds of documents

  • Develop tools to ensure you’re checking the right things in the right way

  • Create a quick and easy tailored plan for editing each project you work on

  • Make sure all the feedback you receive is focused on developing your skills, not fixing typos

Everything medical writers need to approach feedback on their work with confidence

Feel confident when you receive comments that you’ll be able to incorporate them effectively and use them to develop your medical writing skills!

In this course, we will:

  • Explore different types of comments

  • Understand the differences between internal feedback and client/expert comments

  • Consider how to approach comments with a critical eye

  • Develop techniques to resolve complex, conflicting or controversial comments

  • Review the practical considerations for comment incorporation and comment checking

Boost your medical writing skills with expert scientific storytelling

Confidently craft an appropriate story within any MedComms project to ensure it achieves its objective and resonates with the target audience!

In this course, we will:

  • Examine what a story is

  • Understand why effective storytelling is crucial for MedComms

  • Review how effective stories are structured

  • Generate the elements of effective storytelling

  • Apply these elements to specific MedComms projects

More ways you can work with Eleanor Steele: The MedComms Mentor

  • Training

    Practical and accessible training for in-house and freelance medical writers

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  • Mentoring

    One-to-one mentoring for MedComms professionals – either online or in person

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  • Consultancy

    Bespoke consultancy to help MedComms agencies build their optimal team

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