EMWA now has over 800 members from 27 countries, and includes academics and professionals working in-house or freelance for pharmaceutical and medical communications companies, research institutes and in the field of scientific journalism.
EMWA has an extensive professional development programme, and runs workshops and other educational and social events at bi-annual conferences, one in Spring and the other in Autumn, both in European locations.
[2] Since the beginning of 2016, the journal is now once again self-published and printed by Hastings; feature articles are now open access.
[3] The Association pays special attention to ethical issues, to avoid unjustified interpretation of results of medical research, e.g. "The writer should also ensure that conclusions are fully supported by the data and that publications do not contain unjustified claims.
Medical writers should also draw atten tion to any limitations of the study in the discussion section.