Learn medical writing skills for beginners with Virginia Chachati in this free medical writing course 🙂
There are also two exercises in the video for you to try. Write your responses in the comments section under the video on YouTube. And feel free to share this video with fellow aspiring medical writers and beginner medical writers.
If you click on the video to watch it on YouTube, go to the video description to jump to different parts of the course. Or use the timestamps in the list below:
- 00:29 Welcome to the Medical writing skills for beginners course
- 00:30 Introduction and if this medical writing course is right for you
- 03:18 Briefs and structure of medical writing documents
- 18:23 It’s the little things: headings, sentences and word length
- 26:58 Your audience and different types of user intent
- 33:48 Tone of voice and why it matters
- 40:39 The nitty gritty – bullet points, punctuation, analogies, plain English
- 54:26 Time to write – Reading age, brand terms, trigger words, inclusivity, diversity, accessibility, hard words, getting readers to take action
- 01:12:06 A few more things – anchor text, contractions, abbreviations, acronyms, credible sources, citations, editing, proofreading
- 01:28:58 Recommended books and further reading for beginner medical writers
- 01:30:16 Put your new medical writing skills to good use
- 01:31:27 Thank you for watching 🙂
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