Learn effective medical editing strategies and become a master editor
12 on-demand lectures • 24 handouts • 12 quizzes • Lifetime access • Certificate • Access on any device • Teacher: Michelle Guillemard
Our Amplify Your First Draft medical editing course will teach you how to:
- Develop an effective, fool-proof editing process
- Identify and fix common medical writing errors
- Apply the different styles of editing
- Implement specific editing techniques for research and evidence
- Enhance your writing skills significantly
Trusted
More than 1000 students in 40 countries have taken our courses.
Flexible
Learn at your own pace, from anywhere in the world, with unlimited access.
Accredited
We’re independently accredited for quality, academic standards and professional development.
Comprehensive
12 lessons will walk you through the entire process of editing medical content.
Who is this course for?
Our alumni include:
- Anyone who wants to learn effective editing rules and strategies
- Professionals who regularly review content written by other people
- Freelance writers who want to offer editing as a service
- Writers who want to produce stronger content
- Editors who want to sharpen their skills.
What will you learn?
Amplify Your First Draft is an essential guide to editing health and medical content, covering:
- Mindset
- Structure
- Assessment
- Syntax
- Grammar
- Punctuation
- Research
- Referencing
- Compliance
- Efficiency
- Tools
- Strategies.
How does this course work?
Here’s what you can expect.
Instant access
- Log in and start learning immediately
- Work through the lessons at your own pace
- Learn from anywhere, at any time
Editing coaching
- Email Michelle whenever you have questions
- Get personalised editing and career advice
- Feel supported as you complete the course
What’s included?
Industry-leading resources full of essential editing and proofreading techniques.
- 12 comprehensive lessons (audio lectures and text modules) meeting the core learning objectives
- 24+ handouts, checklists and recommended reading links enhancing every lesson’s learning objectives
- One assessed editing task to put your new editing know-how to the test
- 12 quizzes and assessments to help you reflect and put the learnings into practice
- 14+ free health writing webinars to enhance your learning objectives
- Personalised feedback and all your questions answered
- Certificate upon completion (75% pass rate required)
- CPD accreditation for your annual CPD requirements
- Lively student-only Facebook group of 880+ writers
- Lifetime access so you can dive back in whenever you need a refresher
- Loyalty discounts giving you 30% off every other course
- World-class eLearning platform for a seamless learning experience.
Enhance your medical editing skills
Join our global health writing community. Get instant access to all course materials, our student Facebook group and even more bonus content for $249.
Course curriculum
12 lessons full of best-practice advice you can start using today.
Part 1: You have the first draft. Now what?
- Editing is a mindset – understanding the editing process.
Discover the fine art of improving your own work. - The differences between editing and proofreading.
Learn why understanding these differences matters. - How to critique your first draft.
Determine the big-picture changes needed to ensure your content achieves its goals.
Part 2: Addressing common writing dilemmas
- The importance of structure.
Determine the most appropriate structure for your first draft. - Readability and relevance.
Learn how to edit your draft into easy-to-understand content for your target audience. - Correct editing techniques for research and evidence.
Make sure the work includes accurate health claims and quality, credible references. - Effective consumer health referencing techniques.
Discover how to correctly reference your consumer health content.
Part 3: Health & medical editing specifics
- Health & medical writing best practices.
Get super-useful checklists covering the essential best practices of high-quality health & medical writing, including health literacy, engagement, persuasion and behaviour change. - How to conduct a compliance edit.
Determine whether your first draft is compliant with local guidelines, rules, regulations and legislation. - Grammar and punctuation rules, and editing tools.
Learn how to address common issues relating to grammar and punctuation, and discover which editing tools are most useful for your needs.
Part 4: Future strategies
- Essential editing efficiency strategies.
Learn how to edit your own work efficiently and thoroughly – even when you have limited time. - How to write a better first draft next time, and a recap.
Consolidate all the techniques in this course and develop strategies to write a better first draft next time.
Part 5: Editing task
- Editing assignment with personalised feedback.
Complete the included editing assignment and get personalised feedback on your editing skills.
Extras: COVID-19 and healthcare communication
With the pandemic showing no signs of slowing down, there’s never been a more significant time to learn about effective health communication. Communicating about COVID-19 is a topic that ALL health writers need to know about, as it will be a feature of health communication for years to come. To help you learn more about COVID-19 and responsible health communication, I’ve developed a dedicated resources page, updated regularly, which is included in your course.
Bonuses!
FREE access to the Health Writer Hub Alumni Webinar Library
- 14 webinars to enhance your learning objectives
- Watch on-demand with lifetime access
- 10+ hours of online learning included for free
- Learn about freelance writing, finding work and writing tips with webinar topics covering quoting for jobs, finding clients, CV writing, finding employed work, website essentials, subcontracting, marketing and more!
Certified and accredited
Accredited for quality and standards.
Amplify Your First Draft is an approved Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course, independently accredited with the CPD Certification Service – one of the world’s leading independent CPD accreditation institutions.
As an accredited medical writing course, Amplify Your First Draft meets the required standard of CPD at a global level. The course’s learning value and structure conform to global CPD guidelines and principles, complementing the CPD policies of professional institutes and academic bodies.
What are the opportunities after I complete the course?
After you complete Amplify Your First Draft, you will have:
- Editing skills to help you improve your first drafts right away
- Confidence to edit your own work effectively and efficiently
- Knowledge to ensure your work is best-practice and industry-standard.
Your industry expert
Who I am, and why I want to help you succeed.
Hi – I’m Michelle Guillemard, founder of Health Writer Hub (you can read more about me here).
When I launched Health Writer Hub in 2014, I aimed to create a best-practice resource to empower health writers to develop their skills, grow their careers and improve the quality of health content on the web.
Editing your own work is NOT easy – but, with the right techniques, a good edit will transform your first draft into an engaging, effective piece. In Amplify Your First Draft, I address the most common questions and dilemmas I’ve seen in the six years I’ve been teaching writing courses. I created this course to give aspiring health writers actionable tips and essential editing skills.
If you’re ready to learn effective techniques for editing your own work and improving your health & medical writing skills, Amplify Your First Draft is the course for you!
My teaching method
I teach this course, and all my courses, through a combination of audio lectures (podcast style) and text resources. I also offer a range of video content, including bonus webinars and regular student interviews.
After experimenting with different combinations over the years and listening to student feedback, I am confident that delivering lectures in both audio AND text format is the most effective way for you to learn health writing in an online class environment.
While it’s up to you how you consume the content, you are welcome to:
- listen and read the transcripts at the same time
- listen and take your own notes
- listen away from your computer
- read the transcripts only.
Join a supportive group of like-minded health writers
When you join Amplify Your First Draft, you become a member of the Health Writer Hub Alumni – a smart, diverse and friendly community of 880+ health writers from around the world. Alumni benefits include:
- Loyalty discounts – 30% off any other Health Writer Hub course
- Weekly challenges – goals to keep you motivated and accountable
- Student interviews – learn the ropes from experienced students
- Extra group calls – monthly group chats with other Alumni
- Global networking – connect with health writers from around the world
- A supportive network of health writers – ask questions and share advice
- Immediate access – join the group as soon as you sign up.
Enhance your medical editing skills
Join our global health writing community. Get instant access to all course materials, our student Facebook group and even more bonus content for $249.
Frequently asked questions
What you need to know.
Enhance your medical editing skills
Join our global health writing community. Get instant access to all course materials, our student Facebook group and even more bonus content for $249.