ISMPP Highlights
Wager’s Wonders and Words of Wisdom
Elizabeth (Liz) Wager has been an insightful, industrious, and influential contributor to our profession. If you know Liz, you will be nodding your head. If you don’t know Liz, you need to type ”Liz Wager” into Google, and you can then join the nodders. What Google won’t tell you (yet) is that…
Global Transparency & Trends Committee Conducts ISMPP Member Survey
In 2017, The MAP newsletter introduced the membership to the ISMPP Global Transparency & Trends Committee (GTTC), which aims to keep members updated on recent developments and current best practices for data and financial transparency. One of the Committee remits was to better understand…
Medical Writer Joint Position Statement Recognized Worldwide
Over the past several months, the Joint Position Statement on the Role of Professional Medical Writers (JPS) has received various organizational endorsements, has had related journal articles published about it, and has been translated into new languages…
Message from Our Leadership
Robert J. Matheis
ISMPP President and CEO
News and Trends
Salt, Louis IV, and HEOR: A Focus on Three Trends in Publication Planning
Publication professionals work in an industry experiencing a shift in required evidence related to a product’s value, as well as its safety and efficacy. They manage the release of clinical and economic data that can improve the lives of billions of people globally. That is the easy part…
Medical Communications Agency Best Practices for Ensuring Client Confidentiality
One of the most essential responsibilities that medical communications agencies possess is the promise to maintain the confidentiality of their pharmaceutical/ biotech client partners’ information. From the clinical trial data to the strategic and tactical communication plans…
Evidence-Based Publication Planning: Mapping the Literature
A comprehensive understanding of the clinical data and scientific literature in a therapeutic area underpins publication planning. Gap analysis is one long-standing publication planning tool that can be used for this purpose, but what makes a good gap analysis?…
What Would You Do?
In our role as medical publication professionals, we may occasionally encounter situations in which it is not obvious how to ensure good publication practice. Have you ever wished you could consult the ISMPP membership for guidance when these situations arise? Here’s your opportunity!
What Would You Do? is a section of The MAP that presents case scenarios as an educational tool for medical publication professionals. The section provides a case scenario to ponder, and readers are invited to participate in a poll by selecting one of the listed solutions. Readers can also submit their thoughts on the scenario anonymously. The poll results, plus educational insights, are posted in a later issue for readers to digest.
POLL RESULTS: Compensating a Statistician Author for Time Spent on a Manuscript?
You are a company medical publication professional. A freelance consultant statistician is paid by the sponsor to undertake complex analyses for a study. These data are to be included in a manuscript and the statistician is invited to participate as an author so that the data can be appropriately described. The statistician agrees, but requests to be compensated for the time spent contributing to the manuscript…
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