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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.
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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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Mastering the Art of Meeting Facilitation: Part 1
Meetings serve as vital platforms for collaboration and discussion as well as ensuring key decisions are made for aspects critical to successful publication planning. This is the first of two articles that will provide tips and insights into running a successful meeting. Initially, in this article, we look at preparation and what a facilitator should focus on to ensure success…
Author Payments: Same Policies, Different Scope
Can we pay authors for work that leads to a publication? This is a pressing question often faced by medical publication professionals. Good Publication Practice 2022 (GPP 2022) and its predecessors provided guidance on author payments. New questions on author payments and corresponding GPP 2022 guidance are addressed here, as well as further explanation of GPP 2022 wording and expanded scope compared with earlier GPP iterations…
Copyright Confusion: Demystifying Creative Commons Licenses for Industry-Funded Research
Have you ever published a journal article open access? If so, you might be familiar with Creative Commons (CC) licenses. This series of copyright licenses was designed as an alternative to standard copyright models, allowing authors to retain copyright of their work while setting the conditions for the reuse of the work…
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Diversity and Innovation… at the 21st Annual Meeting!
The spirit of collaboration among the ISMPP community was alive and thriving at the 21st Annual Meeting of ISMPP, May 12-14, 2025, in Washington, DC.
A 101-Level Introduction of AI Terms
As artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly permeates healthcare and scientific communication, a solid grasp of AI terminology is beneficial for medical publication and communication professionals. This article developed by the ISMPP AI Task Force explains the most important terms, offering an accessible overview of key AI terms you’re likely to encounter in discussions, research, and applications related to medical publications.
ISMPP Hosts 14th Annual #MedComms Day on June 25, 2025
The International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) is thrilled to announce that it will host the 14th Annual #MedComms Day Celebration on June 25, 2025. This global celebration is dedicated to recognizing the vital role that medical publications and communications professionals play in healthcare.
What Would You Do?
When AI Shapes the Narrative: Do Pubs Teams Have a Responsibility to Act?
Your team at a sponsoring pharmaceutical company recently published a clinical study in a reputable journal. Soon after, a healthcare professional shared a summary generated by an AI-powered medical tool that appears to overstate the study’s efficacy and underrepresent key limitations. The AI summary is gaining traction in online discussions.
While the original published abstract is accurate, you recognize that its structure may make it easier for AI tools to generate simplified, and potentially misleading, interpretations. Now, there is internal debate about whether your team has any responsibility to respond. Some colleagues argue that once the manuscript is published, interpretation by third-party tools is out of the authors’ or the company’s control. Others believe there is a professional obligation to step in when summaries derived from a company-sponsored publication could influence clinical understanding. As a publications lead, you are asked how to proceed. What Would You Do?
Bridging Disciplines: What is the Best Path to Publishing Together?
You lead a study on environmental factors and human health, generating data that could potentially change practice. Multiple institutions and experts from diverse fields, such as environmental science, epidemiology, and public health, contributed to the study, each with different publication priorities—speed, collaboration, transparency. Now you must decide on the best approach for publishing the findings. 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 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.
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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.
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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)
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Informed perspectives on emerging tools, technologies, and evolving practices shaping the future of medical communications
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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