Writing Concentrations

Our writing concentrations in the Medical Writing and Editing Training Certificate program provide the knowledge and skills you need to bring more effective and understandable messaging to an increasingly complicated field. In today's rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, effective communication is paramount. That's why we've curated a selection of key writing concentrations that focus your skills in medical communication roles.

Why Health Communication Is Important

The healthcare industry is in a constant state of change. It needs skilled writers to adapt swiftly and know how to speak to a variety of audiences across verticals. Medical communications professionals have many important responsibilities including writing for patient and public health information materials; clarifying misinformation about health and disease; working toward increasing health literacy; helping level out inequalities in healthcare; and providing effective, user-friendly data visualization to convey key messages.

Specialized Writing Tracks

Writing Concentration Courses*

Courses in the Medical Writing and Editing Training Certificate program will strengthen your understanding of communication types, audiences, platforms, regulations, and best practices, for constructing clear, ethical, patient-centered communications to multiple audiences.

* Choose one as a requisite of the certificate program. Others can be added for additional skill building.

Tailor your professional development to align with your career goals by engaging in one or more specialized writing tracks:

Regulatory Writing:

Prepare documents for submission to regulatory agencies and ensure compliance with established standards.

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Writing for Patient Education:

Create accessible and empathetic materials that enhance patient understanding and engagement.

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Writing for Healthcare Advertising:

Learn persuasive writing strategies for promotional and marketing communications that adhere to ethical guidelines.

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Rigorous and Relevant Healthcare Writing Skills

Our writing concentration courses offer training in the most prevalent specialized writings of health communications. You will work to develop the tools necessary to identify, edit, and contribute components of a biomedical regulatory packet in Regulatory Writing. You will learn the framework for creating materials that patients, families, and caregivers can use, explore the various formats of patient information, and evaluate real-world examples in Writing for Patient Education. In Writing for Healthcare Advertising you will go behind the scenes of the industry to understand how the it works and how to develop compelling advertising copy against the backdrop of a highly regulated advertising environment.

Whichever path you choose you will receive a rigorous UChicago education within a supportive and active community.

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Enhance Your Credentials in Healthcare Communications

Whether you are upskilling or reskilling, looking for an entry-level job, or building your freelancing opportunities within pharma, hospital systems, research, marketing, grant writing, or other health-related businesses, our online Medical Writing and Editing Training Certificate program will enhance your credentials and immerse you in the community and resources of an elite research university.