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A career in Medical affairs is fast emerging as a popular choice for students with advanced degrees in science, pharmacy and medicine. In this post I will highlight certain skills which students pick up during their graduate school days and which are extremely useful in medical affairs roles. 1. Selling an Idea which is backed up by strong scientific evidence and logical reasoning  When PhD students defend their thesis, what they are basically doing is selling their research. They had an idea and they gathered evidence by doing experiments and now they are trying to sell their idea in front of scientists who are experts in that area. A medical affairs professional is trying to do a similar thing. Imagine that the company you are working for has developed a new drug for treating hypertension which is targeting a completely new pathway which no one knows about. When you are talking about this drug for the first time in front of clinicians, it is similar to a thesis defense...

A career in medical affairs can be a very fulfilling one for people with advanced degrees in science and medicine who have an outgoing personality and enjoy peer-to-peer interaction to discuss complex scientific principals and drugs. For PhD. students who are skilled at effectively explaining their research during conferences and meetings, a career in medical affairs is a good place to apply those skills. In this post, I want to put forth my point of view on how students can prepare for a successful career in medical affairs during their student days. Although this post mainly based on my experiences as a medical student in India and as a PhD. student in the US, the points in this post are applicable to all doctors, scientists and pharmacists who are looking to break into medical affairs. What is Medical Affairs? Broadly speaking, medical affairs is the department of a pharmaceutical company which handles all the scientific communication and interactions with health care provide...

Hello Readers,      I welcome all of you to my new blog  MedView.  I had been an avid blogger in my medical school days when I blogged about cricket, motorcycles, movies and a variety of other topics. I took a hiatus from blogging for the past 9 years. I am back with my new blog "MedView" after this long break. My four main passions in life have been medical pharmacology and research, travelling, teaching (especially medical pharmacology) and presenting and discussing new drug therapies and research at medical conferences and events. I have been lucky to be in the field of medical affairs in the pharmaceutical industry which gives me the chance to follow my passion and at the same time earn a living. The major aim of starting this blog is to share my experiences with other budding physicians/scientists who want to make a career in medical affairs in the pharmaceutical industry. I embarked on the road less traveled when I took the unconventional decision of ...