Medical Writer

As a medical writer, you take complicated science and medicine and explain it clearly so other people can understand it. You might write reports about drug trials, instructions for doctors, or leaflets for patients. Your writing helps new medicines get approved by the government and helps doctors make good choices about treatment.

You work with scientists, doctors and other experts who give you the information you need to write about. Your job is to read their research, understand what it means, and write it in a clear way for whoever needs to read it - which might be a government regulator, a doctor, or a patient. You have to be very accurate because people might make medical decisions based on what you write. You often work on several projects at once with tight deadlines, and you need to write clearly and carefully every time.