Re: Another spin-off: where to find writing jobs that are NOT IT related

[<dave -at- smackdabdesign -dot- com>]

Hi Mitch,

I don't suppose you have any medical illustration background, do you? A 
while back it seemed like every few months or so there was a job 
posting with the University of Michigan for a medical illustrator. 
Truthfully, I'm not sure about all that entails, but I imagine it could 
potentially be closely linked with tech writing.

Along the same lines, universities often have entire biomedical 
communications departments. You might want to check into any 
universities and/or medical training institutions in your area and see 
if there is a need in such a field, if you think that would be 
something you might be interested in.

dave.
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From: Mitchell Maltenfort <mmalten -at- gmail -dot- com>

I'm a Ph. D. in Biomedical Enginering, which is essentially a Chinese
dinner degree: one selection from the Engineering Column and one
selection from the Biology column.

(snip)

* Technical Writing for Medical Hardware? I'd expect instrumentation,
implants and the like need technical documentation and someone who can
bridge the gap from the engineer who built it to the physician or
physiologist who'll be using it.  Do companies like Siemens Medical
hire tech writers, as FT or contractors?  Is telecommuting possible?

* Medical Writing for Neurology, Prosthetics or Sports Medicine?  My
research was aimed at understanding how circuits in the spinal cord
worked to generate and control movement.  So I know something about
the nervous system, muscle function and biomechanics.

Of course, I'm interested in other potential markets for what I have
to offer.  Feel free to suggest where I should go (and let's take the
obvious "go to..." as given, and probably even redudant -- there's a
heat advisory where I live).


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