"Value of Medical Writing" Education Sessions Now Online

The American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) formed a working group in 2020 focused on understanding and communicating the value that regulatory medical writers contribute to project teams, companies, and the wider research community. The results of this effort led to a 3-part series of articles in the AMWA Journal and multiple presentations at medical communication conferences. The presentations from the AMWA 2021 Medical Writing & Communication Conference are now available in AMWA Online Learning for on-demand viewing.

Value of Medical Writing: The Medical Writer’s Perspective

Regulatory medical writing professionals encounter a common set of challenges with regard to recognition of both the medical writer’s role on project teams, and the nature and extent of the value that they contribute. In this session survey results are presented and compared with responses from regulatory reviewers from a parallel survey run by the AMWA working group.

Value of Medical Writing – the Regulator’s Perspective

In this session, we share the survey results from the regulator agency perspective, and discuss their implications for document quality, its impact on the regulatory review process, and the skills medical writers need to develop to bring value to this process.

This effort to define and promote the value of medical writing continues with additional articles and presentations development.