Course curriculum

    1. Welcome to this course module

    1. What you will learn

    2. Key takeaways

    3. Resources

    1. How much can you earn as a freelance medical writer?

    2. What will you charge?

    3. Steps to justify what you will charge

    4. Should you charge per word or per hour?

    5. What do you bring to the table?

    6. Is extensive research necessary?

    7. Combine the steps to get your rate

    8. What to charge - it's a mixed bag

    9. What to charge for different types of medical writing

    1. A range of full-time salaries

    2. Why a low salary is not bad

    3. Regulatory writing salary

    4. Experienced medical writer salary

    1. What is a multiple revenue stream?

    2. The feast or famine cycle

    3. How to break the feast or famine cycle

    4. Golden rules of stable income

    1. Welcome to self-managed money

    2. Step 1 to manage your money

    3. Step 2 to manage your money

    4. Step 3 to manage your money

    5. Step 4 to manage your money

About this course

  • £99.00
  • 37 lessons

See what our students said...

5 star rating

Wish I had this a year ago!

Tiarnan McKeever

Creating an invoice for the first time can be difficult. Emailing a client to ask them for payment for this time can be extremely awkward. Having templates for the invoice and the email makes things a lot easier. You can get them in t...

Read More

Creating an invoice for the first time can be difficult. Emailing a client to ask them for payment for this time can be extremely awkward. Having templates for the invoice and the email makes things a lot easier. You can get them in this course, as well as countless gems of info. Not a medical writer? If you’ve got finances to handle, you’ll find the course beneficial anyways.

Read Less

Instructor

Your teacher for this course

Virginia Chachati

A pharmacist turned medical writer and health video creator. Since 2021, she has been educating healthcare professionals to become medical writers and health video creators. Highlights include writing for the NHS, YouTube Health, World Health Organization (WHO), online doctors and producing award-winning website copy for a hospital in Central London. She also created Medical Writer Magazine and the Medical Writing Uncut podcast with over 50 episodes interviewing medical writers from all over the world. She creates health information for patients and the public as Pharmacist Virginia on YouTube and is an evidence checker for NHS.uk health information pages.

Mini courses

View more courses