Association of Medical Media September Educational

The Association of Medical Media Presents: September Educational Meeting

Thursday, September 22, 2011
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Location:
The Ney Center
285 Madison Ave (Between 40th and 41st St)
New York, NY 10176

Program:

• The Future of AMM
• Media Planner Round Table

Career Tracks in Pharmaceutical Marketing

There's an article that briefly describes the career tracks of 8 pharmaceutical professionals (not necessarily physicians) who currently work in pharmaceutical marketing. What's interesting is to read about the diverse backgrounds and the non-linear career progressions that are associated with some of these individuals. Some are clinicians, others are pure businesspeople. There are a number of physician career opportunities in the pharmaceutical marketing industry. You could work for a pharmaceutical company, an advertising agency, a publisher, a promotional education company, etc. Want to learn more about pharmaceutical marketing? You can read the article here on Medical Marketing & Media.

ISMPP Certified Medical Publication Professional Certification Exam

Have you heard of the ISMPP Certified Medical Publication Professional Certification Exam? Have you heard of the ISMPP? Let's start with the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP). This is a non-profit organization for medical publishing professionals. They offer a certification exam and you can learn about that exam by visiting:

http://www.ismpp.org/

The ISMPP Certified Medical Publication Professional Certification Exam

APPLY NOW: Log on to www.ismpp.org for details.
At this time, scrutiny surrounding the conduct of company-sponsored clinical trials and data reporting are at its height. The Certified Medical Publication Professional (CMPP) credential provides an important avenue of support for integrity, transparency, and accuracy in medical publications, based on passing a rigorously developed 150-question, 3-hour multiple-choice examination.

The goals of the credential are to:
• Provide a respected professional credential for medical publication professionals
• Support and drive defensible best practices
• Enhance credibility for medical publishing, especially pharmaceutical-sponsored publications

Medical communications jobs on LinkedIn

If you're looking for a non-clinical job and you're not using LinkedIn, then you're probably missing many potential opportunities. Over the past few months, I've seen many job posts in the medical communications industry. By medical communications, I'm referring to a broad industry that often includes:

• Marketing and promotional education
  
• Advertising agencies
• Medical writing 
  
• Medical publishing
• Journalism
• Certified continuing medical education (CME)
• and much more

So, to find these jobs, join LinkedIn and begin exploring some groups.

Pharmaceutical Executive: August 2009

I've been approached by many physicians who are looking for non-clinical jobs within the pharmaceutical companies. If you're interested in becoming a pharmaceutical physician executive, then perhaps you may want to start by reading and staying up-to-date on some of the current events that's going on in the pharma world.

Let me introduce you to Pharmaceutical Executive, a journal published by Advanstar Communications, Inc. If you'd like to read the August issue, click on this link to view the journal in digital format. One thing that I really like about the digital format is that you can click directly on many parts of the journal to open hyperlinks. That just makes things very convenient.

Eventually, you may want to join the Academy of Pharmaceutical Physicians and Investigators (APPI) if you see yourself having a non-clinical career in the pharmaceutical industry.

Love to Write? Publish a Book

If you love to write, have you considered publishing a book? Now it's easy through a service called Lulu. I've never used it, but I think I'll use Lulu to publish my first book about my journey that brought me into the non-clinical world of healthcare.