Note this is a video recording of an online meeting conducted using the Zoom.us platform. Inevitably such recordings suffer a little in terms of their production values because of the internet connectivity and quality of webcams. Despite that, they allow us to provide additional valuable insights in to the MedComms business and we can involve a wider range of speakers who can participate from the comfort of their own desks, wherever in the world they are.

The freelance medical writing landscape has evolved in recent years, with more market demand for competent medical writers who can work on a project basis. In January 2023, the European Medical Writers Association’s (EMWA) Freelance Business Group launched the 7th EMWA Freelance Business Survey (FBS), with the aim of analysing current trends in freelancing. In this webinar, Satyen Shenoy (Describe Scientific Writing & Communications), reviews the results of that survey and compares them with previously unpublished data from the 6th EMWA FBS to report changing behaviours in freelancing from 2018 to 2023. And we answer questions from the audience.

It should be of particular interest to anyone who is currently freelancing in and around MedComms, or aspiring to do so, or to anyone who works with freelancers.

Recorded 05 July 2023 as a MedComms Networking webinar. Produced by NetworkPharma.tv

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Satyen’s LinkedIn page is at https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyenshenoy/

Find out more about the European Medical Writers Association (EMWA) at https://www.emwa.org/

Further reading

Read the full article, Seventh Freelance Business Survey: The freelance landscape 2018-2023, published June 2023 at https://journal.emwa.org/freelancing/seventh-freelance-business-survey-the-freelance-landscape-2018-2023/

Read the full issue of Medical Writing, Volume 32, Issue 2 – Freelancing, published June 2023 at https://journal.emwa.org/freelancing/
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[For the avoidance of doubt: this video is intended to be freely accessible to all. Please feel free to share and use however you like. Cheers Peter Llewellyn, Director NetworkPharma Ltd and Founder of the MedComms Networking Community activity at medcommsnetworking.com]