ISMPP Highlights
Building an ISMPP Educational Plan to Move Us All Forward
ISMPP consistently provides foundational educational resources for medical publication and communication professionals worldwide. To ensure alignment with the future educational needs of our members and to inform development of a longer-term, dynamic educational plan, the ISMPP Education Task Force launched a needs assessment survey in Q1 2021…
ISMPP-Sponsored Study on PLS Now Published in CMRO Presents Expert Perspectives
A new paper from the ISMPP PLS Perspectives Working Group has been published in Current Medical Research & Opinion. The paper presents findings from an ISMPP-sponsored, evidence-based study reporting on expert stakeholder perspectives to inform best practices for plain language summaries (PLS)…
ISMPP to be Featured in Advancements Television Series in 1Q 2022
ISMPP is honored to be featured in an upcoming episode of Advancements with Ted Danson, scheduled for broadcast in 1Q 2022. The Advancements television segment will present information about the medical publications profession and ISMPP’s role in establishing and maintaining standards for the profession…
Message from Our Leadership
Robert J. Matheis
ISMPP President and CEO
News and Trends
The Role of Preprint Servers and Publishers in Limiting Misinformation: An Interview
The opportunities for preprint servers and traditional publishers to limit misinformation for their users is an area of broad interest in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, with its impact continuing into 2022 and beyond. This insightful interview was conducted with Jan Seal-Roberts and Caroline Halford of Adis, Springer Healthcare, and Richard Sever of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, bioRxiv, and medRxiv…
THE FUTURE OF ADVISORY BOARDS – Is This the End of the In-Person Format?
When writing The MAP article, “Advisory Boards: Words of Advice and a 10-point Checklist”, released in March 2020, we could not have predicted the era of unprecedented change that was to come. Many pharmaceutical companies had already been reaping the benefits of fully virtual advisory boards pre-COVID-19, but the necessity to move all meetings to a fully online format required a significant shift in strategy and mindset…
The Public Face of Science: Elevating Trust through Medical Communications – Continuing the Conversation
In any relationship, whether business or personal, transparency breeds trust. Today, despite the life science industry delivering unprecedented vaccine solutions to address the Covid pandemic, mistrust remains engrained in the public persona. Third parties have leveraged that doubt for their own gain…
What Would You Do?
In our role as medical publication professionals, we may occasionally encounter situations in which it is not obvious how to ensure good publication practice. Have you ever wished you could consult the ISMPP membership for guidance when these situations arise? Here’s your opportunity!
What Would You Do? is a section of The MAP that presents case scenarios as an educational tool for medical publication professionals. The section provides a case scenario to ponder, and readers are invited to participate in a poll by selecting one of the listed solutions. Readers can also submit their thoughts on the scenario anonymously. The poll results, plus educational insights, are posted in a later issue for readers to digest.
Permission to Reuse a Congress Poster Recording
You are a medical publication professional working with a poster author who has been given the option to include an audio recording with an encore poster presentation. The original poster presentation at a major congress included an audio recording. There is concern that while the major congress gives permission for the poster to be encored, the congress does not have permission policies in place allowing for the re-use of the audio recording, for which they hold copyright. What Would You Do?
ISMPP (pronounced IzMap) is the only nonprofit organization founded by medical publication professionals for medical publication professionals