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A career as a health writer

Information about CVs, finding paid jobs, getting employed, freelance life, setting rates, career goals, and more – it’s your one-stop-shop to a successful health writing career.

14 new clients for freelance health writers

LAST UPDATED May 23, 2024 | FIRST PUBLISHED July 1, 2015 | BY Michelle Guillemard

Clients for freelance health writers

If you’re new to freelancing or have just begun your journey, you may still be wondering who your clients actually are.

Filed Under: Freelance health writing, Growing your career

increase your writing rates

LAST UPDATED May 23, 2024 | FIRST PUBLISHED June 23, 2015 | BY Dinethra Menon

Quoting for health & medical writing projects

Even though providing a quote for a new project may be a regular part of running a successful freelance medical writing business, it can be one of the most difficult tasks we freelancers have to do.

Filed Under: Freelance health writing, Growing your career

How to set your health writing career goals

LAST UPDATED August 29, 2023 | FIRST PUBLISHED June 16, 2015 | BY Michelle Guillemard

How to set your health writing career goals

Whether you’re a freelance health writer or an employed medical writer, you can benefit personally and professionally by setting career goals.

Filed Under: Growing your career

How to be an efficient medical writer

LAST UPDATED August 29, 2023 | FIRST PUBLISHED June 9, 2015 | BY Michelle Guillemard

How to be an efficient medical writer

Would you say you’re an efficient medical writer? Or are you a writer who is easily distracted?

Filed Under: Growing your career

Medical writing training - an overview

LAST UPDATED August 29, 2023 | FIRST PUBLISHED May 26, 2015 | BY Dinethra Menon

Medical writing training – an overview

While there’s no ‘one size fits all’ approach to medical writing training, the variety of learning that’s available makes it easier to work as a skilled writer in this field.

Filed Under: Growing your career

How to conduct research for your health writing projects

LAST UPDATED August 29, 2023 | FIRST PUBLISHED May 11, 2015 | BY Dinethra Menon

How to conduct research for your health writing projects

Have you been given a brief from a health client and felt confused about how to conduct research for the project?

Filed Under: Growing your career

10 ways to create an impressive medical writer CV

LAST UPDATED March 21, 2024 | FIRST PUBLISHED April 11, 2015 | BY Michelle Guillemard

10 ways to create an impressive medical writer CV

Does your heart beat a little faster at the thought of writing your medical writer CV or resume? You’re not alone.

Filed Under: Getting started as a health writer, Growing your career

Is the best productivity tip ignore productivity tips?

LAST UPDATED August 29, 2023 | FIRST PUBLISHED April 7, 2015 | BY Health Writer Hub Guest Author

Is the best productivity tip ignore productivity tips?

Ah productivity tips! Everyone is fluttering around them like teenage boys around the new pretty girl at school. Major online publications and business magazine are full to brim with them.

Filed Under: Growing your career

How to make six figures

LAST UPDATED June 16, 2021 | FIRST PUBLISHED February 23, 2015 | BY Michelle Guillemard

How to make six figures as a freelance health writer

So you want to earn six figures as a freelance writer. Is that an achievable goal, or are you dreaming?

Filed Under: Growing your career

The best way for clients to appreciate writers

LAST UPDATED May 23, 2024 | FIRST PUBLISHED January 17, 2015 | BY Michelle Guillemard

The best way for clients to appreciate writers

Since I began writing, I’ve always been, well, a little scared of sending my first draft to my clients.

Filed Under: Freelance health writing, Growing your career

Medical writing vs health writing: a look at the scope

LAST UPDATED August 29, 2023 | FIRST PUBLISHED January 12, 2015 | BY Michelle Guillemard

Medical writing vs health writing: a look at the scope

Medical writing. Health writing. Same same but different?

Filed Under: Growing your career, Health copywriting

work stress and writing

LAST UPDATED August 29, 2023 | FIRST PUBLISHED December 21, 2014 | BY Health Writer Hub Guest Author

Work stress and writing: the truth about both

Your mental health can suffer if you are too anxious and experience too much work stress for too long.

Filed Under: Growing your career

Working with PhD students: Right, or wrong?

LAST UPDATED August 29, 2023 | FIRST PUBLISHED November 24, 2014 | BY Michelle Guillemard

Working with PhD students: Right, or wrong?

As it turns out, many of us have been approached by PhD students of various academic levels who have had no shame in asking us to write their essays and papers.

Filed Under: Growing your career

Online networking for medical writers

LAST UPDATED August 29, 2023 | FIRST PUBLISHED October 16, 2014 | BY Michelle Guillemard

Online networking for medical writers

I can reveal, without a doubt, that I wouldn’t be where I am right now if it weren’t for networking.

Filed Under: Growing your career

8 reasons why medical writers need blogs and websites

LAST UPDATED March 21, 2024 | FIRST PUBLISHED September 30, 2014 | BY Health Writer Hub Guest Author

8 reasons why medical writers need both blogs and websites

In today’s world, having your own web presence is essential.  If you do not have online presence these days, you might as well be invisible.

Filed Under: Growing your career, Health blogging

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