What are the future topics of Medical Content?
What has the next Decade in store for the Medical Writer and Translator? I have a strong feeling that over the next ten years “Personalised” or “Precision” Medicine will become …
The Medical Writer
Are you are a writer new to the speciality of Medicine? Do you find yourself in unknown territories with some medical content? Do not despair. Trough experience you will soon …
Patient-centred writing
Medicine is evolving at an ever-increasing rate and getting more complex. It is no surprise that the transfer of medical knowledge to target audiences (i.e. patients) will consequently become more …
Improve your vocabulary
Disposing of a vast active vocabulary is a great advantage for a translator, along with proficient knowledge in punctuation, grammar, and style. Even though your projects are frequently linked to …
Machine translation is here to stay
Over the last few years, innovations through Artificial Intelligence have improved the quality of machine translations by a great deal. It is today a sector that is growing at an …
How to speed up your Reading Skills
Whether you flick through a newspaper, glance through a blog post or peruse a brochure, you do some reading every day. But embracing dense passages of literature can be time-consuming, …
The CAT Tool – Medical Translator’s best friend
CAT tools – the best invention since the dictionary Computer-Assisted Translation software, widely referred to as CAT Tool, is a computer program that is used to facilitate the translation process. …
Language without the stigma
Terminology can affect patients Words that stigmatise affect patients, relatives and healthcare workers in their perception of a disease. It can influence the behaviour of an entire society towards an …
Muesli: not only etymologically interesting
Muesli – a Swiss German word Back in Switzerland, it was fairly common to eat oats either in the form of a Bircher Muesli (Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and …