Narrative Writing in Healthcare and Drug Safety Medical writing is a scientific discipline where documents related to medical related works are written by professionals who have a background in life sciences and have skill in writing. Medical writing primarily focuses on providing content for the pharmaceutical industry. It involves writing about different document types like regulatory or research related, disease or drug-related promotional material in print and web form, content for health-related websites, magazines, etc and also for journalism and marketing purposes that relate to the medical sector.
The major divisions of medical writing for the pharmaceutical sector can be classified as the regulatory medical writing and educational medical writing. While regulatory writers focus on creating documents required by the regulatory agencies, educational medical writers produce articles that convey new information about drugs and other biologic to general audiences as well as healthcare professionals. Medical writers may not be actually involved in the development of a new drug, but they assist the researcher in conveying the research information to targeted audiences. If the audience is the general public or the layman, the article will be a concise summary of the most important