CME Medical Writing

However, many healthcare professionals interested in medical writing have only dabbled in writing, let alone medical writing. More surprisingly, some have never even tried any type of writing outside the EMR!

If you can relate, don’t beat yourself up. You probably never tried being a clinician before applying to your postgraduate training program, either. But look at you now! Patient care is way harder than writing, so who’s to say you can’t do both?

And again, there is nothing wrong with not wanting to write. As healthcare professionals, we need to allow ourselves – and each other – a break here and there. That doesn’t mean a different type of work is any less important than another. 

So if you want to be a medical writer, but haven’t started yet, you may have some reasons for hesitating. The truth is, most people delay, or avoid it for a few common reasons.