Mentoring and teaching

A reader chooses here by how other writers are being developed: one to one, through mentoring, or in a group, through teaching and training. It leaves training the team a reader manages to developing the team, one writer's own learning and qualifications to education and credentials and developing as a medical writer, and organising the event the teaching sits inside to running professional learning events.

• Mentoring — what mentoring gives both sides, finding a mentor and being one, the relationship and the line manager beside it, schemes and programmes, mentoring at a distance, inside the job and for interns and students, mentoring yourself, and paying for a coach
• Teaching and training medical writers — being asked to teach: what a course can achieve, the method adults need, the workshop day and its exercises, teaching from participants' own writing and live online, the format and the longer curriculum, the association and university programmes, grading a large course's papers to one standard, and the subjects beside manuscript writing