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Oct. 16, 2024

Freelance Like a Pro: Niching, Marketing, and SOPs with Alejandra Viv…

Alejandra Viviescas, a freelance medical writer, shares her journey from academia to medical writing and her motivation to improve the relationship between healthcare providers and patients. She discusses her flywheel concept for client acquisition and how it streamlines her business. Alejandra emp…

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Oct. 9, 2024

Savvy Money-Saving Hacks for Thriving Freelance Medical Writers

Are you a new medical writer feeling overwhelmed by the costs of starting your career? Do you hesitate to invest in expensive resources, wondering if there's a smarter way to begin? You're not alone. Many aspiring medical wri...

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Sept. 25, 2024

Root Cause Analysis: How to Easily Transform Your Needs Assessments

Is your CME content scratching the surface or truly addressing the core issues in healthcare practice? As a CME professional, you're constantly striving to create educational interventions that make a real difference. But som...

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Sept. 18, 2024

CME as a Strategic Resource in Quality Improvement with Katie West MSN

background and the work she does. She shares her passion for teaching and learning and how she transitioned from clinical nursing care to education. Katie explains the role of CME in a hospital setting and the importance of providing relevant and impactful education to clinicians. She discusses the…

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Sept. 11, 2024

Embracing Visual Trends and Patient Voices: A New Era in Medical Educ…

Caroline Halford, Business Development Director for Independent Medical Education (IME) at Springer, discusses the role of publishing experience in shaping IME. She highlights the importance of understanding the needs of learners and engaging with experts and patient advocacy groups. The conversati…

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Sept. 4, 2024

Build Your Medical Writing Portfolio: A Guide for CME Writers

This episode focuses on how to build a compelling Continuing Medical Education (CME) writing portfolio from scratch—even if you've never had a single client. I share three practical strategies and insider tips to help you showcase your writing skills and attract potential clients.

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July 3, 2024

When Clients Collide: Maintaining Integrity in Freelance CME Writing

Have you ever faced the ethical dilemma of being asked to work on similar projects for competing clients? As a freelance CME writer, you may encounter situations where multiple clients request your expertise for overlapping p...

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June 26, 2024

From Burnout to Brilliance: Dr. Lisa Herbert’s Framework for Leadersh…

Are you a physician feeling overwhelmed by the complexities of modern healthcare? Do you struggle to have your voice heard in an increasingly corporate medical landscape? Or perhaps you're a medical professional looking to st...

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June 24, 2024

Streamline Your Social Media: Essential Tips for Freelance Writers

Are you struggling to maintain a balanced online presence without feeling overwhelmed by social media? As a freelance medical writer, you likely know the importance of social media as a marketing tool. However, its demands ca...

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June 19, 2024

Competencies, Gaps, and Grants: Your Roadmap to Compelling CME Needs …

Are you struggling to create compelling needs assessments that win over supporters in today's evolving medical education landscape? As a medical education grant writer or provider, you know that crafting targeted, data-driven...

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June 17, 2024

Master the Mindset Shift: How to Thrive as a CME Writer

Overcome medical writing self-doubt through mindset shifts and peer connections. Are you struggling to gain confidence and overcome self-doubt in your medical writing career? Today in Monday Mentor, we tackle the common chall...

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June 7, 2024

Trauma Surgery Training: Simulations, Continuing Education, and Preve…

What really happens behind the scenes when a severely injured trauma patient arrives at the hospital? Emergency care providers need to act quickly and coordinate seamlessly with their team when seconds count to save a trauma ...

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June 5, 2024

Elevate your CME Game: Insider Secrets from Kristen Dascoli to Transf…

Kristen Dascoli, a seasoned pro with experience on both the editorial and business development sides of CME, pulls back the curtain on the development of a pioneering program on gender-affirming HIV care. ELEVATE was a ground...

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June 3, 2024

Building Confidence as a New CME Writer: Strategies for Success

Are you a clinician, researcher or academic transitioning into CME writing? Do you sometimes feel like you're starting over from scratch, despite your wealth of expertise? Are you struggling with self-doubt, isolation, or imp...

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May 29, 2024

Navigating Self-Doubt in Continuing Medical Education: Insights from …

Are you struggling with feelings of self-doubt in your continuing education career? If you're feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or doubtful about your abilities in continuing education's fast-paced, ever-changing world, you're no...

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May 24, 2024

How to break into CME as a medical writer

How can you break into the rewarding and lucrative field of continuing medical education (CME) writing? If you're a health professional, academic, science researcher, or vet looking to transition into a career that offers mor...

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May 22, 2024

Gender Equity in CME: Practical Strategies for Empowerment

Have you ever wondered how gender inequities affect career progression in the world of continuing medical education/professional development (CME/CPD)? In this episode, we explore women's pervasive challenges in CME and CPD, ...

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May 20, 2024

The CEO of You: Why Investing in Yourself is the Key to Freelance Med…

Are you tired of feeling like your freelance medical writing business is running you, instead of the other way around? Many freelance medical writers find themselves stuck in a reactive cycle, pouring all their time and energ...

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May 15, 2024

Busting Silos: The Evolution of Independent Medical Education

Are you curious about the role of Medical Affairs in Independent Medical Education (IME)? Perhaps you're struggling to demonstrate the value and impact of your programs in a way that resonates with IME teams. IME is evolving....

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May 13, 2024

From Boring to Brilliant: Transform Your CME Content with Proven Stor…

Are you struggling to keep your clinical audience engaged and invested in your CME content? In today's fast-paced, information-overloaded world, medical writers face the daunting challenge of capturing and maintaining their r...

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May 8, 2024

The Future of MedEd: Chatbots, AI, and Personalized Learning

Are you curious about how artificial intelligence and chatbots are revolutionizing continuing medical education (CME) and transforming the way clinicians learn? As a CME professional, you constantly seek innovative ways to cr...

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May 6, 2024

How to Streamline Your Medical Writing Literature Review Process

Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed and frustrated when searching for relevant studies on PubMed for your medical writing projects? As a medical writer, you know that conducting a comprehensive literature review is crucial f...

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May 3, 2024

First Friday: From Pharma to Freelance Medical Writing in the Digital…

Virginia Chachati is a pharmacist turned medical writer who embarked on her freelance journey after moving to Germany in 2020. Inspired by the need to work remotely and make a living online, Virginia started a travel health b...

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May 1, 2024

Telling a Stronger Story: The Art of Communicating CME Outcomes

Are you measuring CME outcomes effectively or just tacking them on at the end? If you're involved in developing, measuring and reporting on CME outcomes, you know it's become an expected part of the process. But many CME prov...

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