What Is a Freelance Medical Writer?
A freelance medical writer is a trained professional who creates clear, accurate, and engaging healthcare content. This is usually on a project or contract basis. They work with clients across the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and health communications sectors to produce scientific publications, patient information, marketing materials and regulatory documents.
Unlike in-house writers, freelance medical writers offer flexibility, often bringing niche subject-matter expertise and the ability to scale with your project needs.
What Does a Freelance Medical Writer Actually Do?
We think the term ‘writer’ doesn’t do it justice, so we often say it’s more than ‘just’ writing.
1. Translating Complex Science into Clear Communications
They take dense scientific or clinical data and transform it into content tailored to specific audiences – be it patients, physicians, regulators, or payers.
2. Creating a Wide Range of Materials
Typical deliverables include:
Manuscripts for peer-reviewed journals
Slide decks for medical education
Patient leaflets and website copy
Promotional materials
SEO-optimized healthcare blog content
Clinical study reports (CSRs)
Regulatory submissions (e.g. INDs, CTDs)
3. Ensuring Scientific Accuracy and Compliance
Freelance writers stay up to date with regulations and compliance, and general industry standards, ensuring every word they write is compliant with regulatory and ethical requirements.
4. Supporting Marketing and Medical Affairs
Whether it’s a white paper for a biotech startup or sales materials for a pharma launch, medical writers play a vital role in aligning communication with brand strategy.
Why Hire a Freelance Medical Writer?
Maybe we’re biased, but we think that working with a freelance medical writer provides a whole host of benefits.
Expertise on demand: Access specialised knowledge without a full-time hire, that could be a specific therapy area, or even type of project.
Speed and scalability: Ideal for projects with tight timelines or fluctuating content needs.
Fresh perspective: Freelancers often bring insights from multiple therapy areas and audiences. We’re lucky to get the chance to flex our creative muscles often! And we get to see a broad cross-section of work across the industry, so we can stay on top of trends.
Why RubyDuke?
At RubyDuke, our team of experienced freelance medical writers combine scientific rigour with creative thinking. Whether you need medical education or content marketing, our team of expert writers delivers high-quality, patient-centric content that gets results.
What’s more, as we’re a team of freelance medical writers, we can scale up our support to multiple writers at a time, to really bring the deadlines forward. And with internal QC, your editorial team won’t need to lift a finger (unless they want to!).
Explore our medical writing services.
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