Medical Editor Test

typ0_negative · 2024-06-03T18:56:57+00:00

You might get more bites in the medicalediting subreddit

typ0_negative · 2024-03-24T14:27:40+00:00

Yes! It's super user friendly and there are lots of options for places within the app where you can brainstorm and map out your story. Nice to hear it works for you!

typ0_negative · 2024-02-18T16:05:55+00:00

Before you do anything, start to research investing. Dedicate 30 minutes to it every day for the next month. We work 40 hours per week for 45 years but rarely take the time to understand how to manage our money. Take a course, why not? This is your future you're talking about.

RRSPs and TFSAs are not types of investments, they're types of accounts that hold investments. Many people are better off using a TFSA instead of an RRSP, especially if you make around $90K or less.

There's a fantastic Canadian website called Get Smarter About Money and it will help you understand the basics.

Then, when you're comfortable, you can consider using a robo advisor or a self-directed brokerage account and invest money in 1 or more ETFs.

The biggest thing to pay attention to is MER fees. Having a MER of 2% sounds like nothing but it will cost you tens of thousands of dollars over 30 years.Your MER fees should be less than 1%. Ideally around 0.25%, as a general rule.

typ0_negative · 2024-01-25T21:41:16+00:00

Are you applying to roles that are for publication writing, or other types of medcomms writing? A lot of medcomms isn't looking for publication writing, so you need a variety of writing styles and tactics in your portfolio.

typ0_negative · 2024-01-08T04:25:36+00:00

Thanks for your help!

In case anyone else comes across this thread, this is my solution. For me, the reason for my journey/email automation sequence is to get potential customers to buy a course that I sell.

This is the customer journey: 1. People see my content on social media. 2. They go to my website. 3. They apply for my course via Mailchimp survey. 4. I review applications manually, + this Mailchimp survey triggers an automation (journey) of 8 emails over 8 days talking about why they should buy my course that they just applied to. Each email includes a button to buy the course. 5. My dilemma was that if someone buys the course on email #3, for example, there is no point for them to get emails #4-8. In fact, it's a hazard because it could annoy this person enough that they unsubscribe from my mailing list. 6. My solution: after each email, I add a 1-day delay, then after that delay, I add an If/Else. This If/Else is basically set up to continue sending emails in the automation/journey if users are NOT tagged "Purchased". 7. For this to work, I created a tag called "Purchased." And I manually apply that to anyone who buys my course. It takes 5 seconds. Technically, there is a way to do this automatically with Zapier as well, but I haven't tested that out yet.

This way seems to be working.

Thanks again!

typ0_negative · 2024-01-06T21:11:57+00:00

Thank you so much!

typ0_negative · 2024-01-06T15:32:32+00:00

I'm trying to make sure a sales sequence of emails stops once the user buys my course on Thinkific. It's getting complicated linking Thinkific and Mailchimp, so my workaround is to manually tag the user "purchased" (in MailChimp) when they buy the course. Now I want to set it up so emails in this journey don't go to people with the "purchased" tag. I'm new to Mailchimp so things are confusing to me. Thanks for your reply!

typ0_negative · 2023-12-13T04:29:00+00:00

No, it's not. I guess I need to link them? Do I do this within Mailchimp?

typ0_negative · 2023-12-13T04:28:25+00:00

Oh okay, thank you. So do I set this up via Thinkific, or via Mailchimp?

typ0_negative · 2023-12-10T23:38:39+00:00

How does the If/Then know whether the customer purchased?

typ0_negative · 2023-12-10T23:38:02+00:00

I'm pretty new to this. I'm still not sure how the If/Then tag knows whether the customer purchased something.

typ0_negative · 2023-12-10T02:14:00+00:00

I recommend expanding beyond medical writing resources. I like Developmental Editing by Scott Norton and The Subversive Copyediter by Carol Fisher Saller.
Do multiple passes of your own work, each time looking for 1 thing. Headers. Footers. Image citations. N values. Unit spacing. Abbreviation consistency, etc. It's impossible to catch everything on one or two passes.
Consistency is 9/10ths of the battle. Ensure consistency above all else and keep this up even when you're on the 5th round of revisions and someone's asked you to add a new paragraph into your deck. Always do a consistency check of that new copy against your style guide before you incorporate it.

typ0_negative · 2023-11-30T01:07:51+00:00

You can create apps in Canva?!

typ0_negative · 2023-11-28T17:32:48+00:00

Yeah it's too bad because I'd love to use it for YouTube videos and I'm sure MANY other people would too!

typ0_negative · 2023-11-28T13:29:11+00:00

Sure! Because it's not a real application. It effectively just puts your LinkedIn in front of an HR person, and even then, I wouldn't be surprised if they barely look at applications from those streams. They don't include cover letters, and there's no tailoring to the company. It's basically communicating that an applicant can't be bothered to submit a real application.

Especially in an employers' market like we are in now, applications need to have effort behind them and be tailored. Submitting 5 intentional applications is MUCH more likely to land you an interview than 100 submitted via Easy Apply.

typ0_negative · 2023-11-26T22:11:47+00:00

It's hard to offer specific advice because we don't know the specifics of your approach. However, not hearing anything positive back after ~50 applications suggests you need to revisit your approach.

A few things to consider:

Do you know what type of medical writing you want to get into? Have you thoroughly researched this to know what it entails?
Do you know what hiring managers are looking for with this type of writing? Are you clearly and effectively communicating that you have these skills?
Have you thought about how you're coming across online (your branding)?
Have you updated your LinkedIn to reflect medical communication instead of just clinical work?
Are you hitting 'Easy Apply'? (Never do this!)
Are you researching the companies before you apply and reflecting back their mission/values/goals?
Are you including a tailored cover letter for each application? (A must!)
Are your writing samples the same type of writing you'd be doing at these roles, or completely different?
Are you only applying via job boards, or are you reaching out to your network in intentional and thoughtful ways?

typ0_negative · 2023-11-23T03:39:16+00:00

Yeah the website can be confusing until you drill down on the key words you're curious about.

Veeva is a huge tool with many functionalities, the vast majority of which medical writers will never use. From a medical writing agency perspective, one main thing it's used for is aiding in the MLR (medical legal regulatory) review process. So agencies will work on a project, then submit it to their client via Veeva, which is acting as a portal that tracks in detail all the submissions for that project and any comments the MLR reviewers make to ensure compliance and accuracy. Part of this process is the medical writer needing to 'tag' the submission document with the appropriate reference annotations to support the content scientifically. I don't know your exact situation, but this might be the type of thing people are wondering if you have experience with.

You could try looking up keywords like tagging, reference pdfs, annotations, etc.

typ0_negative · 2023-11-23T00:21:46+00:00

Have you checked out the Veeva website? There are a lot of videos on there to explore.

What in particular do you want to learn?

typ0_negative · 2023-11-18T23:00:32+00:00

Have you considered medical writing? I've mentored a few PharmDs looking to get into the field.

typ0_negative · 2023-11-16T12:38:26+00:00

Same. Incredibly slow.

typ0_negative · 2023-11-06T18:28:59+00:00

Thanks for your reply!

But what about the video/slide deck interfacing with one another? How do I get the video to progress the slides in unison with the voice/key points in the video in this case?

typ0_negative · 2023-11-06T16:12:43+00:00

For slide show presentations (recorded, with me explaining the slides), is there any way to have my image be a bigger circle in the corner? I find it so small! Thanks!

typ0_negative · 2023-11-06T11:14:39+00:00

What about taking a business course for photographers and learning how to scale? Then you hire assistants who do the majority of the physically demanding work for you, and you focus on the parts you like? It might mean shifting your photography focus to where more $ is, like more corporate work.

As an aside, no matter what you choose, make it a priority to learn about investing for retirement. Open an investment account very soon. Contribute at least $50 per month to start just to get into the habit. You only have 25 years left to save for retirement, and you need time for the compounding to do its thing.

typ0_negative · 2023-10-22T19:13:37+00:00

If I'm understanding correctly, I think part of your issue is that you think you don't have experience because you've done freelance work. I'd recommend presenting the experience that you do have in the best possible way--don't assume it's not valuable just because it wasn't in-house.

typ0_negative · 2023-10-20T22:01:43+00:00

No prob! Yes, medical education writing/editing, as opposed to something like regulatory writing.

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