Supervisor Elham AbolFateh
Editor in Chief Mohamed Wadie

GUC Organizes Technical Writing Workshop in Pharmacy Field


Thu 16 May 2019 | 09:24 PM
Wafaa Fayez

The Faculty of Pharmacy and Biotechnology at the German University in Cairo organized a training workshop for the students on the basics of the profession of technical writing as an important functional alternative to the traditional in this field, said Dr. Nermin Salah, the professor and supervisor of the workshop.

She pointed out that writing in the pharmaceutical field is one of the important means of communication needed by pharmacists.

Dr. Nermin said that the workshop aims to introduce participants to the nature of technical writing and documentation and their importance in the field of pharmacy, the basic skills required for technical writing, description and career path of the technical writer.

[caption id="attachment_51647" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Nermin Salah, the professor and supervisor of the workshop[/caption]

The workshop tackled the difference between technical writing in the pharmaceutical field and other forms of writing, such as commercial writing, types of documents used in the pharmaceutical field.

The content of this workshop was presented by  Write IT, a specialized team, to produce and develop a perse content according to the needs of the customers.

During the workshops, the students were introduced to the services they provide and the training opportunities available to them in the company.

The workshop was also attended by Dr. Mariam Lotfi as a model for a medical writer working in this field and the head of a clinical project in the medical research organization DATACLin.

[caption id="attachment_51648" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Participants at the training workshop [/caption]