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Medical Affairs

The primary focus of medical affairs is to communicate post approval scientific and clinical information to healthcare professionals, patient associations, and patients, through various communication channels.

Medicys assist medical affairs teams who seek fieldwork expertise for four main areas:

Medical communications/publications

When preparing drug-related publications such as abstracts, posters and white papers clients need to create a strategic plan that integrates and aligns the timing of clinical trial data with the release of key data points at scientific meetings. Our network of Key Opinion Leaders, Payers, and patient associations groups is often called upon to provide their input on this but also to ensure the publication language is clear, consistent and, above, all, accurate.

Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs) effectiveness

The primary purpose of the MSL role is to establish and maintain peer to peer relationships with leading physicians. This is a crucial role for most pharmaceutical and biotech businesses as they represent the face of the company. Medicys is regularly engaged to check that the messages delivered to Key Opinion Leaders is recalled, accurate, and resonates

Medical information

Medical Information professionals are instrumental in the development of commercial materials and of sales training which, before they can be released and used, all need to be tested. We recruit and interview respondents to seek their opinions on such elements as relevance and impact.

Patient Information Leaflets (PILs) readability studies

Readability testing of patient information leaflets (PIL) is a process designed to test medical product leaflets to ensure the text displayed is “legible, clear and easy to use” for medicine users, as defined by the European Directive 2001/83/EC, and amended by Directive 2004/27/EC. At Medicys, we help clients by recruiting, interviewing and reporting on patients or lay people’ perspectives on this

Related Work

medical affairs

Therapy Area: Respiratory diseases
Topic: LRTIs

Lower Respiratory Tract Infections

Respondent Type: Toddler Parents (a balanced cohort of mums and dads) of children aged below 5

To evaluate reactions to some communications relating to lower respiratory tract infections in infants

Countries:
Sample Size: 24
Methodology: 15 minute pre-task, followed by 60 minute Web Assisted Telephone Depth Interviews (WATDIs), followed by 5-min follow up TDI
Services Delivered: Recruitment, moderation

medical affairs

Therapy Area: Immunology
Topic: Immunology
Respondent Type: Rheumatologists, Gastroenterologists

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Gastroenterologists, dermatologists

To understand reactions to potential communications materials for an immunology product

Countries:
Sample Size: 55
Methodology: 30 minute Web Assisted Telephone Depth Interviews (WATDIs)
Services Delivered: Recruitment, content analyses

medical affairs

Therapy Area: Pharmacy
Topic: Market access
Respondent Type: Hospital chief pharmacists

To understand how institutions currently assess and approve different drug categories for substitution

Countries:
Sample Size: 12
Methodology: 75 minute Web Assisted Telephone Depth Interviews (WATDIs)
Services Delivered: Translations, recruitment, moderation, content analyses

medical affairs

Therapy Area: Oncology
Topic: Clinical Trial Design
Respondent Type: Patients

Gather feedback on a questionnaire designed for participants involved in a clinical trial to allow them to give feedback about the clinical trial at the start of the trial, during the trial and once the trial has been completed

Countries:
Sample Size: 450
Methodology: 30 minute telephone interviews and 20 minute online survey
Services Delivered: Translations, Scripting and hosting, recruitment, moderation, Sim trans, content analyses, code frame, coding and data tables

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