Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a medical writer can go next

3 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a medical writer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Medical writers produce and process scientific documents related to medical affairs. Work alongside scientists, doctors and other healthcare professionals.

Also known as healthcare writer, medical information analyst, medical editor, regulatory medical writer, medical publications associate, medical technical writer, research medical writer.

Professionals 23 skills on file 3 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: clinical trial assistant, 51%

Fig. 2 · Career map 3 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
clinical trial assistant 51% covered clinical coder 21% covered medical records clerk 16% covered medical writer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 3 nearest destinations from medical writer, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a medical writer already covers. All 3 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Only 3 moves are listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A medical writer needs 16 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • evidence-based approach in general practice health and welfare
  • draw up professional texts communication, collaboration and creativity
  • report the results of treatment information skills
  • multi-professional cooperation in health care health and welfare
  • clinical reports health and welfare
  • medical studies health and welfare
  • archive scientific documentation information skills
  • professional documentation in health care health and welfare
  • provide written content communication, collaboration and creativity
  • conduct health related research information skills
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a medical writer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Medical writer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a medical writer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.