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Pat C, a creative writer, bluffed her way into a job as an editor of medical journals and books while obtaining her undergraduate degree in English. Once she had the diploma and begun to mull over the direction of a new career, she discovered that an extremely unlikely thing had happened to her by accident while she was editing all that scientific material: she had come to actually like science. Armed with her degree, publishing experience, and new self-knowledge, she started work as an editor at a medical communications agency. Communication companies help their pharmaceutical company clients publicize new drugs through journal articles, scientific meeting materials, and educational publications. At this agency, Pat reviews all these materials for consistency, concision, clarity, and correctness. She is now a managing editor at the company, and to further advance her career she took an examination and was certified as an editor by the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences, and is now enrolled in a Masters in Biomedical Writing program at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

Anne received a Bachelor's degree in English, with an emphasis in writing. She was unsure about which field she wanted to begin her career, but she wanted a job that offered the opportunity for either editing or writing. She decided to take the position of production assistant in the editorial department of a mathematical society because she would be able to learn the basics of copyediting. A year later she was promoted to copyeditor. Because of this experience, she was able to break into the biomedical writing field by taking a job as a production editor for a medical/nursing publisher. She copyedited manuscripts and guided journals through the production process. She then decided to expand her experience by taking a job as developmental editor in the company, learning how print and electronic products were developed. She currently manages and oversees medical books and CD-ROMs as they are being written and created. To broaden her knowledge even more, she is completing biomedical writing courses.

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