The colleagues a document passes through
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This branch covers a writer’s working relationships with colleagues who supply, shape, review or help release a document, organised by the colleague involved. It leaves whole-team coordination, project and submission management, patient partnerships, technical methods and detailed review comments to neighbouring topics.
- Working with medical editors — editorial roles, early involvement, editing levels and responsibilities, shared notes and continuing partnerships
- Working with disclosure managers — preparing study documents and structured information for public disclosure
- Working with clinical research coordinators — complementary roles in protocols, ethics submissions and publications
- Working with institutional support offices — collaboration with grants and contracts, public relations and research-review offices
- Working with authors as their writer — authors’ expectations, relationship building, queries and collaboration within an in-house team
- Editing for subject matter experts — working styles and agreements, expert fatigue, competing projects and contributing beyond the edit
- Working with biostatisticians — early collaboration, linked study documents, statistical outputs, communication and mutual review
- Working with health economists — expectations and knowledge gaps, preparation, evolving models, clinical assumptions and publication practice
- Working with the creative team on a promotional piece — partnerships, creative briefs, scientific and regulatory limits, brainstorming and emotion in promotion