EMWA Webinars Programme

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 organiser, a notification email will be sent as soon as possible.

2021 Webinars:

Thursday 21st January 2021, 14:00 CET

Publication Planning
Andrea Rossi - Medical writing, medical communications and scientific affairs consultant,
Julia Donnelly - Medical communications consultant

After all the time, effort and expense of conducting research, how often do researchers say: “I was unable to publish these results because I don’t have the time”? Publication’s statistics tell us it’s a common issue, even in clinical trials, where ethical guidelines mandate that the results of all studies should be published. Publication planning has a fundamental impact upon medical writers’ activity, irrespective of writing genre, and has be aligned to strategic objectives of the study sponsor and its communication plan.
In this webinar the key aspects and challenges of Publication Planning will be explored to give insight on what publication planning is, the importance of a good publication planning and how medical writers who are working on the preparation of high-impact publications, can help to deliver a successful publication plan. With the right focus and planning, you can choose the right targets to achieve your writing goals.
Basic know-how of the environment of scientific publications and clinical studies disclosure is needed to fully appreciate the contents.

This webinar can now be accessed here.

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Thursday 11th February 2021, 14:00 CET

Veterinary articles for scientific journals: Case reports
Dr. med. vet. Cemile Jakupoglu - Cyton AH Biosciences GmbH – a knoell company
This web-seminar for beginners will point out the necessary steps to write veterinary case reports, where to find guidance and common pitfalls to watch out for.
Outline of the covered topics:
- What is a (good) case report
- Where to find relevant guidance
- Necessary steps to writing a good case report
- Process of getting published

This webinar can now be accessed here.

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Thursday 18th March 2021, 14:00 CET

The impact of COVID-19 on the content of clinical trial documentations: new requirements!
Raquel Billiones
In early 2020, the US FDA and the EMA issued emergency guidance documents on how to manage clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic. Included in these guidances are additional requirements and documentations for ongoing clinical trials. This webinar will discuss these new requirements and share the first experiences from a medical writing perspective, with particular focus on the clinical study protocol and clinical study report. This session is aimed at medical writers and clinical researchers who are familiar with clinical trial documents.

This webinar can now be accessed here.

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Thursday 22nd April, 14:00 CET

The medical writer’s guide to blogging—how to write blog posts for yourself and your clients

Diana Ribeiro, Freelance Medical Writer

Have you ever wondered about the role of blogging in healthcare? Did a client or the company you work for asked you to write a blog post? Would you like to create a blog for yourself but don’t know where to start?

In this webinar, we’ll discuss how blogging can help you showcase your skills as a medical writer, how healthcare, pharma, medical devices, and other companies are leveraging their blogs to connect with their audience, and how to write blog posts that people enjoy reading.

This webinar is intended for medical writers who want to include blog posts to their roster of projects or for those aiming to create a blog to increase their visibility. The topics to be discussed include research, structure, SEO (search engine optimisation), and how to develop a long-term strategy for a blog.

This webinar can now be accessed here.

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Thursday 24th June 2021, 14:00 CET

EndNote and its functions for Medical Writers 

Peter Masurat, Alfasoft team (Company lead webinar)

Managing your references is important, and time-consuming.

We show you how easy and time-efficient it is to manage your references and create bibliographies with EndNote, the world’s most popular reference software. No more manually trying to get the citations and bibliography correct. Furthermore, access to full-text articles increases your knowledge base. We show you how to access full-text PDFs and adding them to your library, including all the PDFs already on your computer.

Get up and running quickly with this introduction to EndNote. And learn how to get EndNote at an EMWA discount.

• Create your reference database
• Find, and add full-text content (PDFs)
• CWYW (Cite While You Write) in Word documents
• Collaborate with colleagues
• Find what journal to publish in, and publish

This webinar can now be accessed here

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Thursday 22nd July 2021, 14:00 CET

The role of Quality Tolerance Limits (QTLs) in clinical development, by Andy Lawton

QTLs were introduced into ICH GCP (E6 R2) in 2016 and yet their full impact can now only be realised with the introduction of ICH E8 R1 with Quality by Design (QbD).
This presentation will examine:

• The history of tolerance limits
• The role of QTLs in QbD
• QTLs in clinical trials including what and how to report them in the CSR and submissions

This webinar can now be accessed here

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Monday 27th September 2021, 14:00 CET

Health writing for a healthier life

Andrea Rossi - Medical writing, medical communications and scientific affairs consultant,

There’re billions of articles about eating better, exercising more, breaking bad habits, making healthy choices, and reducing risk factors. There are tons of health information freely available online, and we know more about disease and risk factors than ever.

So, why aren’t our communities getting healthier?

Could it be people are just not motivated enough to want to change?  Quit smoking, eat more healthy food, cut back on drinking, exercise more. We just don’t change our habits.

Medical writers really, honestly want to do what’s needed to make a healthy lifestyle change success in the long-term; perhaps, we can help more people want to change their unhealthy behaviours if we effectively stimulate their desire for change. So, how can we, as writers become public health advocates, encourage our readers to make healthy changes?

This webinar can now be accessed here

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Thursday 28^th October at 14:00 CET 

An Overview of EU Pharmacovigilance 

Interested in learning about the intricacies of Pharmacovigilance in the European Union (EU)? EMWA- PVSIG is holding a webinar with Joan D’souza, to learn about EU pharmacovigilance on Oct 28 at 2 PM CEST.  The content will be of interest to those working in regulatory writing and is open to all medical writers.  We look forward to seeing you there.

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.