Alejandra Viviescas

Independent Medical Writer Specializing in CME

I help medical education companies develop targeted, engaging CME content.

With strategic insight and a solid grasp of accreditation standards and content formats, I create learning experiences that meet clinician needs and align with supporter expectations.

    Featured Articles & Appearances

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    Enhancing Health Outcomes by Bringing the Patient Voice Into CME | AMWA Journal

    Incorporating the patient’s voice into continuing medical education (CME) and continuing education (CE) activities has the potential to enhance shared decision-making (SDM) and patient-centered care by making educational content more engaging and reflective of real-world experiences. Medical writers can play a pivotal role in this process by integrating patient narratives, testimonials, and perspectives into CME/CE materials and by effectively working with patients as subject matter experts. This article examines the importance of incorporating patient-centered care and SDM into clinical practice. The article also highlights how CME/CE activities can serve as essential tools to support this integration and discusses how medical writers can contribute to this process.
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    Freelance Like a Pro: Niching, Marketing, and SOPs with Alejandra Viviescas

    Alejandra Viviescas, a freelance medical writer, shares her journey from academia to medical writing and her motivation to improve the relationship between healthcare providers and patients. She discusses her flywheel concept for client acquisition and how it streamlines her business. Alejandra emphasizes the importance of having standard operating procedures (SOPs) and checklists to optimize workflow and reduce anxiety. She also highlights the value of a niche and how her multilingual background influences her work in continuing medical education (CME). Her advice for freelance writers is to find what works for them, start small, and tackle one process at a time.

    My medical writing journey: How I discovered self-mentoring and used it to improve my career and life

    Medical writers can greatly benefit from receiving mentorship, mentoring others, and learning how to keep themselves accountable through self mentoring. Through mentorship, they can get unique advice to accelerate their career development and connect or reconnect with the reasons that led them to become medical writers in the first place. In this personal piece, I share how different kinds of mentorship have impacted my career since I left academia to pursue medical writing. I hope this inspires others in the field to explore how mentorship can help them advance their careers.