About This Role
This Medical Writer role focuses on developing high-quality scientific publications and associated outputs for MIMS MedComms clients, including peer-reviewed manuscripts, congress abstracts, posters, and oral presentation materials. Reporting to the editorial lead, the role suits a medical writer with at least one year of existing publications writing experience who wants to build deeper expertise in ethical, accurate, and transparent medical publication practice while working with experienced editorial and client teams.
Responsibilities
- Develop scientifically accurate, well-structured publication content for peer-reviewed journals and congresses, including manuscripts, abstracts, posters, oral presentation materials, plain language summaries, and publication-related slide content
- Work from clinical data, literature, author direction, and client briefs to prepare clear publication drafts that communicate evidence accurately and appropriately for specialist medical audiences
- Support publication development in line with established industry standards, including Good Publication Practice, ICMJE authorship and disclosure expectations, and relevant reporting guidelines such as CONSORT and other EQUATOR Network resources where applicable
- Conduct targeted literature reviews, reference checks, data extraction, fact checking, and quality control to ensure scientific accuracy, consistency, and appropriate citation of source material
- Prepare publication outlines, first drafts, revised drafts, response-to-reviewer content, figure and table legends, and associated submission-ready materials under guidance from senior writers and editorial leads
- Coordinate comments from authors, clients, reviewers, and internal stakeholders, ensuring revisions are addressed clearly, accurately, and within agreed timelines
- Maintain awareness of journal and congress requirements, including formatting, word count, referencing, disclosure, acknowledgements, and submission requirements
- Collaborate professionally with authors, key opinion leaders, clients, project managers, medical editors, and account teams to support efficient and ethical publication delivery
- Contribute to internal knowledge sharing by building therapy area familiarity, applying editorial feedback, and developing stronger publication-writing judgement over time
Requirements
- PhD in life sciences, medicine, pharmacy, public health, biomedical sciences, or a related scientific discipline
- At least 6 months to 1 year of experience in writing or substantially contributing to peer-reviewed medical or scientific publications is preferred, ideally within a medical communications agency, publisher, CRO, pharmaceutical company, academic, or healthcare research environment
- Demonstrated ability to write clear, accurate scientific content for publication outputs such as manuscripts, abstracts, posters, congress presentations, literature reviews, or plain language summaries
- Working knowledge of publication ethics and industry expectations, including transparency, appropriate acknowledgement of medical writing support, authorship principles, disclosure requirements, and accurate reporting of data
- Ability to interpret clinical and scientific information, identify the key message, and present complex data in a concise and balanced way for healthcare professional audiences
- Strong attention to detail, including referencing accuracy, consistency checking, data verification, formatting, grammar, and adherence to client, journal, and internal style requirements
- Good project discipline, with the ability to manage assigned writing tasks, respond constructively to feedback, and meet agreed timelines across multiple publication deliverables
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
Nice to have:
- A higher degree
- At least one published scientific/medical publication
- Familiarity with reference management tools, publication databases, and journal submission systems
Important Details
- Locations: Philippines or India
About the Company
MIMS MedComms provides medical communication services to clients.
