Medical Writing for Healthcare Professionals

Launch your scientific and medical writing career today. Learn from an experienced medical writer!

4.27 (1012 reviews)
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English
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Career Development
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Medical Writing for Healthcare Professionals
4,624
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5 hours
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Feb 2024
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$99.99
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What you will learn

Build a medical writing business from scratch

Find and GET high-paying clients in the medical and life-sciences fields

Grow your business to a part-time or even a FULL-TIME income.

Write efficiently, so you finish faster and keep your clients happy.

Learn to write for the web as well as CE monographs and presentations

Learn the basics of taxes and law, including what to look for in a freelance contract.

Why take this course?

I've made over $1,000 a day in medical writing, and I'll show you how you can too:

  • Are you a healthcare professional who wants to make extra money on the side using your clinical training?

  • Would you like to get paid to create content that also helps you keep your clinical skills sharp?

  • Would you like to be able to use medical writing as a resume booster so you can expand your opportunities within your specialty?

  • Are you looking to move away from clinical work and interested in making a career change to medical communications?

This course is for you!!

Learn how to start a successful medical writing business and find companies needing writers with clinical skills just like yours. Explore the exciting field of medical communications!

You can work from home or anywhere in the world as a digital nomad. Work flexible hours!


You get lifetime access to this course with your investment in your development and growth.


This course is divided into the following sections:

  1. Finding the work: Maximize your job search to open the door to hidden and hard-to-find opportunities.

  2. Getting the work: Pitch successfully to clients and build your portfolio so you can make a lasting impression.

  3. Using the tools: Learn tips and tricks with Google Docs, Google Slides, and Powerpoint, the three most commonly used software in medical writing.

  4. Writing the work: For many students this is the most valuable portion of the course. I will demonstrate in front of you how to efficiently lay out and write articles for the web, CE monographs, and CE presentations. I’ll give you tips for working with editors and show you how to finish your references efficiently so you can get paid faster. We'll also go through preparing documents for Medical, Legal, and Regulatory (MLR) review!

  5. The business of writing: We’ll talk about taxes, finances, and law so you can run your business.

  6. Resources: I’ll leave you with resources you can use regularly long after you finish this course.


Other things you'll learn include:

  • How to build your portfolio and present it to clients to impress them!

  • How to get experience even if you don't currently have any experience.

  • How to find images of nearly anything you can use for your presentations.

  • How to use LinkedIn successfully to promote yourself as a medical writer and get work.

  • How much medical writers can earn.


Research scientists in the life sciences fields have also found this course to be invaluable to kick starting their scientific writing career. This course will review how life scientists and researchers can take their training and education and use it to start getting writing work.


Please note I am a U.S.-based medical writer. I have worked for companies in Europe, Japan, and Taiwan, but most of my clients are American. While I believe the vast majority of the course material applies to any medical writer, you may find that portions of this course are targeted more towards U.S. medical writers.


Just read what my students have to say:

It was an eye-opener as there was a lot to learn. The instructor delivered the lectures in an easy-to-follow format. - Maureen O.


I found Alex's course to be helpful to find potential jobs. (I found one!) The reference section and powerpoint were extremely helpful as a medical profession who hasn't made presentations in awhile! - Courtney D.


Lots of great information-- like drinking from a fire hose. It's helpful to be able to back up and review parts that went by too quickly or that I didn't see because I was taking notes. - Therese G.


Alex is an excellent presenter, the course is comprehensive, and I learned a lot of tips and tricks, and things I would not have considered. It was very useful to me as a clinician exploring medical writing as a career. Excellent value for money. Great work and thank you. - Greg T.

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Reviews

Caitlin
October 16, 2023
A useful starting platform to help you find your feet. Has some very useful pointers but was hoping for a bit more on the technical aspects of medical writing itself. Overall helpful.
Sanchanaa
October 5, 2023
Thank you. I wish there could be more explanation on how to choose a topic, go about researching the topic, writing and publishing the research. It would have been nice if there were more such explanation.
Monika
September 27, 2023
I know that Udemy is U.S.-based; however, I expected a more general approach to medical writing, and this was only focused on U.S. citizens. That should be mentioned before buying the course. I want to state my disappointment, knowing that I spent half of the course reading up on stuff that doesn't apply to me, so it felt like a waste of time. The course had good information available; however, I know quite a lot of the material from another course by Alex Evans, 'An Introduction to Medical Writing,' that was free. I bought this course because I expected more information but was disappointed that even the videos were the same as the previous course. I also believe the course should have more guidelines and information for young medical doctors who don't have that much clinical experience.
Elizabeth
September 22, 2023
Great information to get started freelancing. Had to make multiple volume adjustments because the sound was not consistent.
keerthi
September 12, 2023
couldn't see any relevant content of actual medical writing stuff..how to begin and what are the sources etc
Brian
September 11, 2023
It was really a perfect course for me. I will never regret the day I decided to take this course. With my background in Biology, I always wanted to be a Medical Writer.
Amy
August 30, 2023
This course is incredibly useful and provides tangible steps to follow to move into the field of medical writing. This is one of the most useful sources that I have found so far.
Deborah
August 18, 2023
I'm finding the course to be very informative and I have gotten useful tips on where to start. It is also good to know that I am on the right track.
Tatsiana
August 10, 2023
It's a precious course for experts with a medical background. And although I have no such dedicated education, I am just a Copywriter who works for a mental health provider; I grabbed a lot of helpful information, links, and some curious notes! I'm impressed. Thanks for the carefully prepared material!
Preeti
August 2, 2023
Course was very informative and well explained but as a beginner I was expecting more emphasis on enhancing writing skills.
Tanay
July 16, 2023
please tell more about how to write because as a starting person our main aim is writing a good content these are secondary things which can be learnt later too . hope you improve in this course
Pedro
July 13, 2023
The section 5 wasn't what I was expecting... I wanted to see more tips and common mistakes instead of the teacher making an example. Anyway, the course is great.
Akshay
July 11, 2023
Yes, indeed i was not expectig it to be so educative with extensive clarity on the topic. It was really good the the links were provided for future use.
Raymond
May 31, 2023
I am looking forward to starting a new career as a medical writer and I like the information presented so far.
Aline
March 31, 2023
The course was very useful as a starting point for launching my medical writer career. It contains all the basic informations that any medical writer might need, presented in a clear step by step method to facilitate the learning. It covers all the necessary topics from how and where to start the writing career, to how to use different writing tools needed for any type of work be it an article for the web or a journal or CE presentation or a CE monograph, it even contains suggestions for invoicing and pricing. I highly recommend it for all the to-be medical writers.

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