Courses About Medical Editing

A colleague on an email discussion list asked about continuing-education courses in medical editing. I'm sharing here the info I gave her:

• “Medical Editing 101: An Introduction,” a recorded 3-part webinar available through the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA)

• “Macroediting“ (has nothing to do with using macros), webinar available through the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA)

• “Microediting,” webinar available through AMWA

• “Macro and Micro: Taking Editing All The Way From Measurement to Meaning,” webinar available through AMWA

• “Editing Activity Package,” webinar available through AMWA

• “Eliminating Wordiness: How to Effectively Shorten Abstracts and Other Writing,” webinar available through AMWA

• “Ten Characteristics of Effective Tables and Graphs,” webinar available through AMWA

• “Working with Authors Who Are Non-native English Speakers,” webinar available through AMWA

• “Medical Editing,” webinar available from the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP)

• Updated on 6/8/2019: “Editing Medical Manuscripts,” course available from the Art of Copyediting

• Various courses available from the Drug Information Association; see its catalog