Medical writing is a special subset of technical writing that requires familiarity with medical and pharmaceutical terminology. It is an excellent niche for those writers with a scientific background.
And within the medical writing subset, regulatory writing is another specialty that pays very well since your employers are usually pharmaceutical companies that rarely have any cash problems.
To create the appropriate documentation in order to obtain regulatory agency approval for a new drug is the chief responsibility of a regulatory writer. To market and distribute a prescription drug one needs to have the regulatory stamp of approval of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
There are several types of specialized documents that you’d be asked to write as a regulatory writer. Here are the two most… Continue reading A Medical Writing Specialty that Can Put a Lot of Money in Your Pocket - Regulatory Writing