Day-to-day challenges for PMWs

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Exit Survey

General information:

* Please indicate your years of experience in the profession of medical writing.

6 months - 1 year

1 year - 3 year

>3 years

General information:

* In your opinion, what % of your daily work you actually spend on writing?

Day-to-day challenges:

* From the options below, please indicate the biggest challenge in day-to-day life of medical writer (Tick all that apply).

Conflict management between authors/ stakeholders

Switching between therapies/ brands

Unclear customer requirements/ Frequent changes in scope of work

Shifting deadlines

Short turn-around deliverables

Ad-hoc requests from stakeholders/ Unplanned work

Tight deadlines during congress submissions

Task prioritization and managing timelines

Others: please specify

Day-to-day challenges:

* In your opinion, apart from writing which of the following are most time consuming in day-to-day life of medical writer. (Tick all that apply)?

Receiving comments from a number of reviewers and collating the same

Sometimes dealing with difficult people to handle

Struggling to arrange time slots for different authors

Project management

Review and re-writing cycles/ multiple iterations

Planning and execution (preparing kick-off and/or project update meetings)

Others: please specify

Day-to-day challenges:

* Please indicate in which category the major portion (approx. more than 50%) of your daily work fits best.

Group A: Writing, reviewing, following processes such as DV, filling timesheets, documentation, copyediting

Group B: Attending meetings, trainings, reading SOPs, planning work, writing minutes, preparing more demanding email replies

Group C: Reading email, preparing short email replies, arranging TCs, chatty colleagues

Day-to-day challenges:

* In your opinion, what percentage of your objectives which are set in beginning of week do you feel are achieved by the end of week?

Work-life balance:

* What strategy you adapt for rejuvenating and/or to ensure work-life balance?

Taking frequent breaks

Hang out with friends/ spending time with family

Team outing

Vacation

Meditation and Yoga

Shopping

Others: please specify

Work-life balance:

* What motivates you as a professional medical writer (Tick all that apply)?

Diversity in the form of customers, types of projects and roles and responsibilities

Crave for constant learning

Relevant work and exposure to latest information

Deadline-driven and always a 9-5 job

Operating as a part of the team

Able to multi-task

Flare for writing and creativity in science

Possible growth opportunities as a writer

Other: please specify