Medical writing

A reader chooses here by what a question is about: a competence every medical writer draws on, whatever the area; the documents, rules and ways of working of one area of practice; or the writer's own working life.

• Foundations — the competences every medical writer draws on, whatever the area: the scientific background, evidence and data, language and style, writing for the reader, visual and spoken communication, making a document, tools and technology, and the ethics of the work
• Areas of practice — the areas of the field, each with its own documents, readers, rules and ways of working: regulatory writing, publications, medical communications and education, patient and public communication, market access and health technology assessment, academic writing and clinical records, medical translation, and veterinary medical writing
• Profession — the writer's working life: their own career, a freelance business, a team they lead, the buying and selling of writing services, mentoring and teaching others, their working conditions and health, the footprint of their own practice, the professional community, and the profession as a whole