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How to Find Online Freelance Medical, Health, or Nutrition Writing Careers

If you can learn some medical terminology, it's easy to find online freelance writing, editing, or book indexing assignments working with the healthcare industry, ghostwriting or co-authoring books with physicians, or writing health news for trade journals.

Another venue is to transfer medical transcription skills to medical writing, editing, or indexing. Instead of typing medical histories or records all day, you can attend medical conferences, cover the speakers' highlighted information, and write newsletter articles or design online newsletters covering medical conferences anywhere in the world from your computer. You can design the format of the newsletter, write the articles, or work with trade journals in medical economics, running the medical office, or the latest health news for general consumer magazines, online newsletters, and other publications or co-author a book with a scientist.

Work in public relations with hospital executives or nonprofit agencies. Many nonprofit agencies publish glossy quarterly magazines and online newsletters for employees called house organs. Include publishing, proofreading, or proposal writing or ghostwriting for medical personnel. Here's how to start.

Technical or news reporting writing skills can move online from a medical transcriber position to an editor's or reporter's job with a publisher of medical or medical economics publications or with a public relations agency. You won't be able to get a job writing medical reports or journal articles if you are a medical transcriber with a basic high-school education.

With a degree in medical writing and editing, you can make it to the public relations department, a medical news publication, or editing, indexing, and proofreading medically-oriented books. Or you could continue your education to become a medical librarian or medical language teacher or trade journal reporter or editor.
Another career possibility is to become a technical writer and specialize in one area of technical writing such as indexing medical textbooks. Community colleges offer degrees in technical communications. Another field is traveling to conventions and conferences to design and create medical newsletters or summarize what was presented at the conferences for a newsletter or medical newspaper. Medical economics publications also use writers with good verbal skills to report on the business end of a medical, pharmaceutical, or

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