EMWA Webinars Programme 2016

Date

Title

Speaker

Registration

20 Jan 2016
15.00 CET
(14.00 GMT)

Practical tips for effective project management and communication

Alison will share her experience of over 20 years in the medical writing department of a large CRO, on how to manage difficult writing projects and will provide tips on effective communication including a discussion of how to use “robust dialogue” in situations where the relationship between you and your client becomes difficult. Robust dialogue is the practice of conducting candid, open and productive conversations to enable those involved to produce appropriate solutions to problems.

Max. 100 places

Alison Rapley

This webinar was booked out in record time!

A recording of the webinar is available in the archive section.

26 Feb 2016
16.00 CET
(15.00 GMT)

Introduction to statistics

This webinar is intended for medical writers who want to understand more from statistics. It will include basics such as mean and median, p-value, confidence intervals, and risk ratios. Further, it will provide tips and tricks on how best to review database extracts.

Max. 100 places

Magda Joana Silva

17 March 2016
15:00 CET
(14:00 GMT)

First steps into Freelance – initial experience

After 13 years working as a medical writer, including 3 years in a Med Comms agency and 10 years in a large pharma company, Jonathan recently embarked on a new life as a freelance writer. In this webinar, he will reflect on his initial experiences, including considerations during the pre-freelancing ‘set-up’ period; approaches to contacting and winning clients; and how hopes and expectations met with reality during his first few months as a freelancer. He will also comment briefly on aspects of business set-up (such as tax status), but by necessity this part of the presentation will be UK-specific.

Max. 100 places

Jonathan Edwards

7th Apr 2016
15:00 CEST
(14:00 BST)

Writing tips that will change the way you write in English

We will discuss linguistic topics such as sentence building, introductory phrases and link words, comparing and contrasting, as well as some `language myths’. If you have any questions regarding grammar and style, please send them to pr@emwa.org and we will endeavour to answer them during the webinar.

Max. 100 places

Amy Whereat

9th June 2016
15:00 CEST
(14:00 BST)

Introduction to MEDDRA coding

This webinar will provide (a) an overview of Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities (MedDRA) (development of dictionaries, user groups, web sites and training, official documents), (b) an introduction to MedDRA coding (dictionary structure, coding tool, migration, versioning, points to consider), and (c) some practical “how to” tips for those who might already have preliminary experience with MedDRA.

Max. 100 places

Ursula Oestringer

Frederique Soulie-Redondo

27th July 2016
19:00 CEST
(18:00 BST)

CORE Reference: A Medical Writer's Guide to Preparing CSRs in an Evolving Context

This webinar will introduce CORE Reference, a new and valuable resource that provides interpretational guidance of the ICH E3 guideline designed to assist medical writers as they prepare compliant clinical study reports.

This is a webinar hosted by the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA): you do not need to be an AMWA member but you will need to create an AMWA website account (without cost) in order to register.

Dr Aaron Bernstein

31st August 2016
15:00 CEST
(14:00 BST)

Make Word behave as it should

Having trouble formatting your Microsoft Word documents quickly, consistently, and easily? This webinar shows Word users how to solve some of the most common formatting problems that occur when working in a Word document: how to place images so they don’t disappear; how to break tables and pages; and how to number pages. The webinar will also review how to use Word’s formatting styles; how to deal with table of contents problems; and how to create internal and external links.

Max. 100 places

Gail Zona

9th September 2016
15:00 CEST
(14:00 BST)

Practical guide for writing clinical study protocols for medical devices

This webinar is intended for medical writers who are interested in writing about medical devices. It gives practical, step-by-step guidance on how to write a clinical study protocol for a medical device.

Max. 100 places

Beatrix Doerr

13th October 2016
16:00 CEST
(15:00 BST)

Client management

In this webinar, Kathryn addresses several questions she received during her time as EMWA Freelance Advocate. For instance, she will advise on client management including how to find your first client and networking, what important points to include when developing a contract/proposal, setting boundaries, and managing difficult conversations. Furthermore, Kathryn will offer tips on gaining and retaining good clients.

Max. 100 places

Kathryn White

Rescheduled for 2017.

Further information to follow

The cardiovascular system

This webinar is intended for those interested in working in the cardiovascular field. It will focus mostly on the heart, its anatomy, physiology and associated diseases such as aortic stenosis and coronary heart disease.

Max. 100 places

Monica Meyer

Rescheduled for 2017.

Further information to follow

New Risk Management Plan summary template

The EMA’s Inga Abed will discuss the outcome of the EMA pilot on RMP summaries which began in March 2014 and which led to an update of the current RMP summary template. Improvements have been introduced to the format and content to better respond to the needs of its audience. Part of the webinar will be dedicated to introducing the updated template of the RMP summary, highlighting the main changes and guidance for completing it.

Max. 100 places

Inga Abed