25 Sep 2019
Report on MMS University workshop on Clinical Data Science
Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Sciences
Venue: MMS University, Rajajinagar
Date: 25-09-2019
One day workshop at MMS Holdings
A one day symposium was held at MMS Holdings, Rajajinagar based upon clinical research and medical writing occurred on 24th of September 2019. MMS is a Clinical Research Organisation (CRO) which provides its clients medical writing, document writing for clinical trial reports. It was a very approachable ambience at MMS, students doubts regarding medical writing was clarified. Students learned about the company and the documents they handle were also explained in detail. Company tour was planned to understand the different steps through how a document is processed to be finally sent to the approval of FDA and other likely organisations. Medical writing as a career for biotechnologist was explained, it terms of career growth it is endless as medical field and pharmaceutical industries are not affected by economical distress within a country or around the world.
Medical writing is an important aspect of clinical research as it aids transparency to three different types of clients; the medical doctors, the pharmacologists and the general public. The transparency of the drug is revealed and explained in scientific way. The medical doctors are disclosed the major information on one end and on the other end the general public are minimally disclosed only as much that can be understood. A medical writing report can be anywhere between 10 to 20 pages or even more than that. Sometimes the reports can be very huge. Medical writing requires a great deal of skill and experience to master it as it contains scientific, medical terms and statistical data as well, to write a report of such requires training and that is when MMS University provides a 60 hours course upon medical writing online with considerable instalment payment option as well. The course is conducted by highly experienced professionals in the industry.
Lastly, MMS even provides a Three weeks of internship programme amounting to about 2500 INR, where the basics of medical writing and clinical research can be explored and shadowing a medical writer at the MMS company could also be provided. The company was very flexible quoting that it is absolutely required to be clear about the choice as a medical writer, either a yes or a no. Quality analyst was bought in as per the request of students to clear our queries and also students had a very interactive session with a medical writer professional with six years of experience at MMS to clear our queries. Students were also given extremely good career guidance as already mentioned about the flexibility of the symposium and gave career guidance taking not only medical writing or clinical research as a target but other fields as well.
It was an extremely informative, useful and enlightening session with the professionals at MMS including Ms Nandini, head of the company, Tejaswini, medical writer.
