by Gertrude Nonterah, Ph.D. | Nov 1, 2023 | Medical Writing
This post was written by Rebecca Tadokera, PhD MPH. What do you do when your well-laid-out plans do not pan out, and everything comes crashing down? How do you react when the dream you have always thought you were building turns into a nightmare? How do you reposition... 
by Gertrude Nonterah, Ph.D. | Oct 31, 2023 | Medical Writing
I’ve been around long enough to see people tremble the moment they hear they are going to take a medical writing test. I get it. If you’re like me, then the word “test” conjures up images of sitting in a quiet room for two hours unable to talk... 
by Gertrude Nonterah, Ph.D. | Oct 28, 2023 | Medical Writing
If you have been looking into a career in medical writing or medical communications then it is likely you have seen the terms used interchangeably. But are they the same thing? What is medical communications? What is medical communications? Medical communications is... 
by Gertrude Nonterah, Ph.D. | Aug 14, 2022 | Medical Writing
This post was written by Dr. Geetika Choudhary, a medical writer based in Bengaluru, India who works for PPD, a part of Thermo Fisher Scientific. Change can be exciting and daunting at the same time. I frequently get messages on LinkedIn asking how to enter into... 
by Gertrude Nonterah, Ph.D. | Aug 8, 2022 | Medical Writing
*Dr. Victoria Sherwood is a Scientific Writing Team Lead at Novartis in the UK. She also blogs on STEM Careers over at BiomedBadass.com. In this post, she shares how she became a medical writer in the pharmaceutical industry in the UK.* As the cursor hovered over the...