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Beyond the Badge: Why BCMAS Certification Strengthens Medical Affairs and MSL Professionals

ByAuthor Author March 18, 2024 0 Comments
The Board Certified Medical Affairs Specialist (BCMAS) program has become a cornerstone of the medical affairs and MSL profession. However, some critics question the necessity of certification for MSLs and Medical Affairs Professionals. Let's address these concerns and explore the true value of BCMAS certification. One criticism centers on the idea that experience trumps certification. While...

How to Build Trust as a Medical Science Liaison

ByAuthor Author October 12, 2022 0 Comments
Medical science liaisons (MSLs) are the bridge between life science organizations and healthcare providers (HCPs), creating an essential communication channel for an organization to understand the patients they serve. Traditionally, HCPs and MSLs engaged in a one-way dialogue with the provider requesting information from the MSL or medical affairs team. Today, MSLs and HCPs form a collaborative...

How to Advance Your Medical Science Liaison Career

ByAuthor Author September 9, 2022 0 Comments
Whether you are an aspiring medical science liaison (MSL) or a medical science liaison seeking a change, these 3 career tips will help you move forward and achieve your goals in medical affairs. Medical affairs refers to the department within the life science organizations responsible for “facilitating the flow of information between the medical community and the organization.” As field...

Top 10 Medical Science Liaison Facts

ByAuthor Author August 31, 2021 0 Comments
Medical Science Liaison Top 10 Facts The medical science liaison role has increased a lot since the early 2000s. As a result, there are over 330,000 medical science liaisons worldwide. The medical science liaison position is one of the most sought after roles in the pharmaceutical industry. It is a very competitive role. Pharmacists, physicians, and PhD professionals are all trying to break into...

Explained: What is a Medical Science Liaison?

ByAuthor Author May 13, 2021 0 Comments
What does a Medical Science Liaison (MSL) do? A medical science liaison (MSL) refers to a field-based medical affairs professional whose primary responsibility is to interact with influential healthcare providers (HCPs) who are on the forefront of their relative therapeutic specialties. Life sciences companies - pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices - all employ medical science liaisons...

How COVID-19 is changing the MSL Role

ByAuthor Author May 29, 2020 0 Comments
COVID-19 has ushered in unprecedented times that none of us planned for, this includes the pharmaceutical industry. With travel restrictions prohibiting MSLs from visiting healthcare providers (HCPs) and access to HCPs being drastically limited, MSLs have had to make major changes to how they operate. I have spoken to MSLs who once thought the concept of “virtual MSLs” was years away...

5 Myth Busters: MSL Board Certification

ByAuthor Author May 26, 2020 0 Comments
As the medical science liaison (MSL) and medical affairs space evolves, the Accreditation Council for Medical Affairs (ACMA) thought it would separate fact vs fiction when it comes to MSL Board Certification. 1. Myth: What differentiates a certificate from a certification is the inclusion of a training component Fact: What differentiates a certificate from a certification is that a certificate...

Will Life Return to Normal after Coronavirus for the Pharmaceutical industry?

ByAuthor Author May 11, 2020 0 Comments
Top 5 things we predict will change 1. In person pharma sales & medical science liaison (MSL) visits might go virtual While MSL and pharmaceutical sales rep visits are important for communicating important information to healthcare providers (HCPS), let’s face it, they are not ‘essential.’ Most medical practices are now moving to telemedicine, and many doctors are asking patients not...

A Day in the Life: Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs)

ByAuthor Author May 6, 2020 0 Comments
What do you do as a Medical Science Liaison (MSL)? MSLs are clinical and/or scientific professionals who typically have an advanced degree (MD, PharmD, PhD, etc..). MSLs focus on a specific therapeutic area/disease state and are deep scientific experts in a pharmaceutical company’s products. MSLs build relationships with key opinion leaders (KOLs) in the medical community within their assigned...

Considering a Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Certification? 5 Things You Should Look For

ByAuthor Author April 27, 2020 0 Comments
The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) is a specific role within a function called medical affairs. Medical affairs is the division within a pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, or diagnostic company that is focused on data generation and data dissemination to healthcare providers (HCPs). MSLs are focused on building relationships with key experts within the medical community and serve as...