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EMWA is the European Medical Writers Association. EMWA is the network of professionals that represents, supports and trains medical communicators in Europe. It is a not for profit organisation that is run for and by its members.

This website offers access to EMWA's journal, The Write Stuff (TWS), as well as our Freelancer and Company listing and our Jobs page advertising vacancies for both freelance and in-house medical writers and editors. If you would like more information about how to sign up to the freelancer or company list, or how to advertise your job vacancies on this website, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

Upcoming EMWA Conferences

The dates for the Spring and Autumn EMWA conferences are now available, and plans are underway to finalise the programmes for these exciting events.

The Spring conference will be held between the 14th to 18th May 2012 at the Coral Beach Hotel, Paphos, Cyprus. The final programme will be released in January 2012, and online registration for the event will be opened in February 2012.

The Autumn conference will be held between the 8th to 10th November 2012 at the Andels Hotel, Berlin, Germany

New: 

THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR REPORTING THE FACTS CORRECTLY: REPLY TO SHASHOK

By Paul Komersaroff

To read more, please click here.

Click here to download the full paper. 

Evading responsibility to readers and third parties: How an international bioethics journal failed to correct the record of publication
by Karen Shashok (Translator and Editorial Consultant)


The Journal of Bioethical Inquiry declined to correct the record of publication to the satisfaction of a reader whose professional interests were threatened by misleading information

To read more, please click here.

Click here to download the full paper. 

If you are an EMWA member and you would like to comment on this webeditorial, or start a discussion on the topic, please click here and enter the 'Webeditorial Comments' discussion forum. You will need to be logged into the members-only section of this website to access this forum. If you are not an EMWA member, and have a comment, please consider posting a comment on EMWA's LinkedIn page.

Ghostwriting in the press
 
EMWA continues to defend the medical writing profession and raise not only its standards but also its public perception.

To read EMWA's official response to Fugh-Berman’s article regarding the ghostwriting of publications about Prempro, published on PLoS on 7 September 2010, please click here.

Adam Jacobs, Press Officer, EMWA
Andrea Palluch, Public Relations Officer, EMWA

 

 
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