Continuing Education Writing: Know Your Clinician Audience

Abstract

Continuing education (CE) writing is a major field of work for medical writers and editors. To effectively write and edit CE materials, medical writers need to understand the target clinician audience, including clinical responsibilities. Physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, nurses, clinical psychologists, and dieticians are examples of professions that often require CE to maintain licensure. With a general trend of increased funding for CE programs, medical writers and editors have opportunities to be involved in crafting deliverables such as needs assessments and other portions of grant proposals as well as various types of deliverables for educational content.