EMWA Webinars Programme
EPDC members Carolina Rojido and Laura Collada Ali lead our webinar team:
- Lynne Isaac
- Paul Wafula
- Heather Mason
- Diana Ribeiro
We are happy to announce upcoming webinars below. Webinars may be either recorded and uploaded on the due date or live online seminars. For live webinars, you only need to register and then connect to our webinars platform on the due date. A recording will be available shortly after the event in the Archive section. Nevertheless, we advise you to participate, because this will enable you to ask questions and contribute to an active discussion. For the recorded webinars we encourage you to send us any questions you may have on the topic by the date indicated and they will be answered in the recording.
Please email the webinar team with any questions or accessibility concerns.
Note: We reserve the right to cancel a webinar if needed, although we will make all effort to avoid it. Also, we make every effort to ensure we have a stable internet connection to run EMWA webinars, but it is not possible to provide a 100% stable connection. If for any reason, the presentation has to be cancelled by the organizer, a notification email will be sent as soon as possible.
2019 Webinars:
24th January 2019, 14:00-15:00 CET
Are you ready to write about state-of-the-art medicine?
Pablo Mugüerza
The best way to face the challenges that avant-garde medicine is presenting to all of us who work on medical language (writers, translators, and interpreters, among others), is to have the language explained by a qualified translator and trainer with a strong, specific medical background. During this 45-minute journey (+15 minutes for questions) Pablo Mugüerza, a physician with almost 35 years of experience as a medical translator and proofreader and more than 10 years of experience as a medical translators trainer, will provide attendees with crystal clear ideas and concepts about of state-of-the-art medicine, along with tips and tricks to manage the use of the ever-changing related language.
28th February 2019, 14:00-15:00 CET
Oral presentations: skills to help you survive or even shine!
John Dixon
Giving an oral presentation is a daunting prospect for some. Even the more confident can find presenting a difficult skill to master. However, we must all stand and deliver at some stage, whether to share ideas informally with colleagues or help pitch for a new project to a major company. We discuss how to deal with nerves, rehearse and keep to time, use our voice and body language, make a presentation have impact, and deal with questions and difficult people. Join us to voice your views, ask questions or just listen. We hope to persuade you that delivering an oral presentation can be an enjoyable and worthwhile opportunity and not an ordeal to hide from!
This webinar can now be accessed here
14th March 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 CET
Checking Consistency: An Introduction to PerfectIt
Daniel Heuman - CEO & Founder, Intelligent Editing Ltd | Private company webinar
PerfectIt is an MS Word add-in that offers a fast and accurate way to check for consistency errors in text. It’s designed for professionals and used by more than 500 members of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders. The workshop is primarily for complete beginners who have never used PerfectIt before. It will cover what the software can and cannot find, with an overview of all the styles and checks that it can run. It will show how suggestions vary by location, and every location and suggestion needs to be checked for context. It’s open for users on Mac or PC.
This webinar can now be accessed here
11th April 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 CET
Checking House Styles: Customizing PerfectIt for Advanced Users
Daniel Heuman - CEO & Founder, Intelligent Editing Ltd | Private company webinar
This session will show how you can use PerfectIt to select a style sheet, build your own custom style sheet, and check your preferences. The session will explain how to use PerfectIt’s advanced functionality. It will focus on custom styles and custom checking. It will show how you can share style sheets with colleagues and how you can set up a different style sheet for each client and every style that you work with. This will be an advanced workshop that is primarily for editors who already use PerfectIt on a PC with Windows.
This webinar can now be accessed here
25th July 2019, 14:30 CET
Nutrition basics
Carolina Rojido
Since medicine and nutrition are closely intertwined, medical writers may be asked to write about nutrition. However, because we all eat, we are all experts about it in a way, but this doesn't mean we are well versed in the science. Additionally, we often receive conflicting information about nutrients, diets, research results, etc. This webinar aims to clarify basic facts that will prove useful professionally and personally.
This webinar can now be accessed here
29th August 2019, 14:30 CET
Oh Vienna. Impressions of first EMWA conference (OPEN TO NON EMWA MEMBERS)
Archana Nagarajan, Diana Ribeiro, Heather Mason, Laura Collada Ali, and Carolina Rojido
EMWA conferences offer a wide range of worthwhile activities to our members - both those new to the profession and experienced medical writers. On one hand, the training workshops, seminars and sessions on medical writing and current 'hot topics'. On the other, networking and socializing opportunities with colleagues from all over Europe. Please join our delegates as they share their impressions from the Spring 2019 conference in Vienna.
This webinar can now be accessed here
19th September 2019, 14:00 CET
Pharmacovigilance writing: monitoring and enhancing patients’ safety throughout the life-cycle medicinal products
Tiziana von Bruchhausen
This webinar addresses participants with no or little experience in pharmacovigilance (PV) writing. The presentation will provide an overview of the basic concepts involved in PV writing, such as the life cycle of the medicinal product, benefit-risk balance, and safety concerns. There will be a brief introduction to the main PV documents required from clinical development up to marketing authorisation renewal, with focus on how these documents reflect specific PV activities to monitor and enhance patients’ safety. Interactions and synergies between PV documents and other clinical or labelling documents will also be briefly shown. Furthermore, an overview of the writing activities beyond submission will be provided. The webinar will indicate which EMWA workshops offer intensive training on the various topics presented.
This webinar can now be accessed here
10th October 2019, 14:00 CET
How medical writers can create a CV that wins more work and / or secures a higher rate
Alistair Morris, CV and Interview Advisors | Private company webinar
The CV and Interview Advisors have prepared an engaging and thought-provoking webinar and discover several innovative strategies to help you win more work, more frequently and at higher rates. This event is specifically designed for EMWA members and packed with practical advice that really works, including: how to assess the effectiveness of your current CV; the things that you should NEVER do on your CV; how to transform your CV into a powerful business case that differentiates you from your competitors; and how to beat the automated tracking systems. The event is live and will be followed by a Q and A session.
This webinar can now be accessed here
20th December 2019, 14:00 CET
Personal experience from transitioning from Pharma to Medical Devices
Sarah Choudhury
The world of medical devices is still considered a relatively new area for medical communicators. In this environment, the role of medical communicators in the medical device industry has gained importance and our skillset is very much in demand. This webinar provides medical communicators with my own personal insight into challenges faced, the many opportunities to be had, and how we can provide much added value to the world of medical devices.
This webinar can now be accessed here
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Volunteering for EMWA webinars
If you think you have something interesting to communicate to other EMWA members and are eager to run a webinar of your own, contact the webinar team. Your proposal will be evaluated by the webinars team and the EPDC and we will provide our feedback as soon as possible.