Editor's Pick
AI-powered platforms and search engines are synthesizing peer-reviewed medical literature into actionable insights for HCPs. What are the implications for traditional information channels? Read the results from our April WWYD poll.
Hot Topics
June’s Hot Topic, Protecting Trust in Science, explores the critical role of ethics, transparency, and integrity in medical publications and communications. Discover curated content addressing the opportunities and challenges of AI, predatory publishing, and maintaining trust in the scientific record.
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Knowledge Hub
Visit ISMPP Insider’s Knowledge Hub for content across foundational and applied themes and topics. Explore curated collections or targeted searches to view recent and archival material.
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In Practice
Accessibility Matters: Easy Steps to Making Healthcare Information Accessible
Healthcare information has never been more readily available than it is now. However, accessibility goes beyond mere access to information; it encompasses ensuring that all individuals—regardless of physical, sensory, or cognitive ability—can access, understand, and benefit from healthcare content. This article discusses the benefits of accessible healthcare content, current accessibility standards, common barriers, and practical tools and strategies to enhance accessibility.
Generative AI: Catalyzing Change in How Pharmaceutical Companies and Agencies Collaborate
Medical communications professionals within pharmaceutical companies and agencies are navigating the rapid acceleration of technological advances, particularly the implications and uptake of generative artificial intelligence (AI), amidst an evolving information ecosystem. This article synthesizes the transformation taking place and shares tips that catalyze collaboration as our industry, and cross-functional relationships, evolve in the age of AI.
Finding Your Fit: A Guide to Industry, Agency, and Freelance Roles in Medical Communications
For professionals new to the discipline, or those considering a transition into it, understanding the career paths available is key to finding a meaningful role. This article outlines three core paths within the field in industry, agency, and freelance.
From ISMPP
Purpose, Partnerships, Personalization at the 22nd Annual Meeting!
The spirit of collaboration among the ISMPP community was alive and thriving at the 22nd Annual Meeting of ISMPP, April 20-22, 2026, in Washington, DC.
Discover How ISMPP Supports Emerging Professionals and Small Companies
Whether you’re exploring a future in Medical Communications or navigating the unique challenges of working in a small company setting, ISMPP is here to support your success. Read more to discover what ISMPP has to offer for new and small company professionals.
Welcome to ISMPP Insider!
Introducing ISMPP Insider, the evolution of the MAP Newsletter. Like The MAP, Insider brings together expert perspectives, practical insights, trusted guidance, and program news to support the ISMPP community.
What Would You Do?
When a Bespoke AI Tool Falls Short: What Would You Do?
You are a medical writer at an agency using a pharmaceutical company’s internally developed generative AI tool to draft a manuscript reporting results from a phase 3 clinical trial. Although the tool is approved for use and initially performs well, you begin to identify inaccuracies that require substantial human correction, reducing its expected efficiency. With tight timelines, organizational expectations, and scientific integrity all at stake, what would you do?
Poll Results — When AI Shapes the Narrative: Do Pubs Teams Have a Responsibility to Act?
As AI-generated summaries become more common, publication professionals face new questions about responsibility and oversight. In this What Would You Do? poll, respondents considered whether publication teams should act when AI tools misrepresent published research—and the results suggest a clear preference for proactive engagement.
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 ISMPP Insider 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.
Content Lab
Connecting the Dots in Medical Communications: Three Perspectives on Navigating Stakeholder Alignment
Medical communications teams sit at the center of an increasingly complex stakeholder landscape, making alignment harder to sustain as organizations scale. Drawing on three expert perspectives, this article explores why these challenges persist—and practical ways teams can navigate them more effectively without adding complexity.
About Content Lab
Content Lab is ISMPP Insider’s dedicated space for timely, relevant, and practical insights in medical communications. Content Lab features concise articles designed to inform, inspire, and spark conversation among our members.
Whether you’re looking for a quick tip or a deeper dive into the challenges and opportunities facing medical publication and communication professionals,Content Lab delivers informed perspectives, straight from ISMPP. Our goal: to beyour trusted voice for advancing best practices, integrity, and innovation in medical communications.
Knowledge Hub
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ISMPP Insider’s Knowledge Hub represents a central space for exploring and discovering content, new and older. Content is organized across foundational and applied themes and topics. Explore curated collections or targeted searches to view recent and archival material.
Ethics, Integrity, & Transparency
Principles, values, and real-world considerations that guide ethical decision-making, transparency, and trust in medical publications and communications (the WHY)
Medical Writing & Communications
Practical perspectives on writing quality, collaboration, and the day-to-day practice and craft of medical communications
Standards, Guidelines, & Policies
Authoritative guidelines, policies, and evolving requirements that operationalize ethical and transparent practices and support consistent implementation (the HOW)
Innovation & Technology
Informed perspectives on emerging tools, technologies, and evolving practices shaping the future of medical communications
Publication Strategy & Planning
Strategic approaches to planning, aligning, and delivering evidence and publications across the research lifecycle
Professional Development & Community
Insights and experiences that support career growth, skills development, and engagement across the medical communications community