Training and careers

I provide training and teaching in medical writing and scientific communication. I have delivered courses to academics and to communications agencies, and helped develop and lectured on a PGCert Medical Communications course at Worcester University in 2009/2010.

I also provide one-to-one coaching of publication writers.

Training courses which I’ve been commissioned to develop include:

• An introduction to medical writing;
• Effective medical writing;
• Constructing a convincing argument from the clinical literature;
• How to develop and use product messages;
• An introduction to drug branding and positioning.

I have collaborated with Network Pharma Ltd (Oxford, UK) for several years on a series of careers events, including presentations at Oxford and Manchester Universities. I present at an annual Network Pharma/Oxford University careers workshop, and am author of a widely circulated careers booklet — From academic to medical writer: a guide to getting started in medical communications.