Medical Education
Being a pharmacist and growing up in the NHS I like to think (without being arrogant) I can turn my hand to most things - which comes in handy for med ed.
Case study - journal supplement features
Things don't always go to plan. Rewrites are needed, key opinion leaders unexpectedly go off to a conference without submitting their copy, some just don't want to do the writing. I'll do it, short deadlines a speciality. I can research a feature, obtain the most important evidence and write to brief.
Case study - Research Digest
Wiley Interface publish Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry a monthly for clinicians. I research and write (from the original papers) Research Digest, a 2000-word current awareness column summarising new clinical evidence relating to drug treatment. The latest examples are posted here.
Case study - PowerPoint presentation for a medical conference
KOLs are busy people - especially at conference time. So if you want them to present your new data to health correspondents from several countries they'll need some help. In the past couple of years I've used the latest conference abstracts to develop PowerPoint presentations on a new biological for rheumatology - more tight deadlines and the added concern of presenting the data in a way the KOLs like. Success depended on a good working relationship with the agency. Fortunately, we had one.
Case study - computerised learning modules
When you have a proven learning tool you can use it to teach any subject. I've written modules on diabetes, COPD and asthma, chronic and acute pain and smoking cessation for non-medical prescribers, including CPD tasks and the dreaded MCQs. For a GP module on diabetes we used a case study approach, which was an interesting change to the usual format.