Professional Standards In Medical Writing

A core goal of AMWA is to promote professional integrity in the field of medical writing. To help medical writers maintain high professional standards, AMWA endorses:

The Joint Position Statement of the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP), the American Medical Writers Association, and the European Medical Writers Association (EMWA) on the Role of Professional Medical Writers in the Development of Medical and Scientific Publications^*

AMWA-EMWA-ISMPP Joint Position Statement on Medical Publications, Preprints, and Peer Review

Good Publication Practice for Communicating Company-Sponsored Medical Research: GPP 2022 and this paper that discusses the application of GPP3 in the Asia-Pacific region

The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) Journalist Code of Ethics

*Translations of the Statement are available in French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, Spanish and Ukrainian

Member Spotlight - Cam Simpson

AMWA committee member, Cam Simpson is taking a turn under the spotlight.

Cam is a freelancer for clients that need a writer with experience in medical research and medical communication. This includes grant applications, clinical trial development, ethics approval, pharmaceutical product pipelines and journal article publication.

Read about the chance request that changed the trajectory of his career, and his simple, yet powerful advice for his fellow medical writers.