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Remote Medical Writer jobs

13 open positions in the United States, newest first.

Medical writers produce scientific and clinical documents for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies, agencies and publishers. Depending on the specialty, they write regulatory documents such as clinical study reports and protocols, journal manuscripts and congress materials, or promotional and educational content for clinicians and patients, and are responsible for scientific accuracy and compliance with the applicable guidelines.

About the Medical Writer role

What the work looks like

  • Draft clinical study reports, protocols, investigator brochures or submission summaries from study data and statistical outputs.
  • Write and revise manuscripts, abstracts, posters and slide decks with clinical authors and reviewers.
  • Interpret tables, figures and listings with biostatisticians and describe results accurately in text.
  • Manage review cycles, reconcile comments from medical, regulatory and legal reviewers, and track versions.
  • Check references, data points and claims against the source documents before final sign-off.

What employers ask for

  • Advanced life science, pharmacy or medical degree
  • Knowledge of ICH and Good Clinical Practice guidelines
  • AMA style and Good Publication Practice
  • Interpreting clinical trial data and statistics
  • Literature searching in PubMed and reference management
  • Document templates and review tools such as Veeva

Doing this job remotely

Medical writing has long been done remotely and by freelancers, because the work consists of documents, data outputs and review cycles handled online. Deadlines are tied to submission dates, congress dates and journal schedules, and can compress sharply at the end. Writers work with reviewers in many time zones and must handle confidential trial data securely.

Where it comes from and where it leads

Writers generally come from research, clinical practice, pharmacy or doctoral and postdoctoral training, sometimes from scientific editing. The path leads to senior and principal medical writer, team or scientific director at an agency, or regulatory affairs and medical affairs positions.