HCN Academy

The HCN Academy is an integrated training and development programme designed to provide employees with learning opportunities that can be directly applied in the workplace. From early in their careers, employees can take advantage of courses ranging from those designed to develop industry-specific skills to those that focus on personal development skills. The Academy motto is “Shaping your future” indicating that employees can work with their managers and Academy training professionals to identify the learning opportunities needed to help them become high performing healthcare communication specialists.

Academy Foundation Programme in Gardiner-Caldwell Communications

The Academy Foundation Programme in Gardiner-Caldwell Communications involves an intensive training programme over several weeks, including didactic sessions that focus on:

  • Healthcare compliance
  • Company overview – vision and values, structure and services
  • Effective medical writing
  • Editing, styling and proof-reading
  • Publication planning and good publication practice
  • Writing manuscripts from clinical trial reports
  • Writing posters, abstracts and slide presentations
  • Writing newsletters
  • Drug development
  • Basic statistics
  • Basic pharmacokinetics
  • Scientific meetings – symposia and congresses
  • Pharmaceutical regulations and healthcare professional compliance
  • Introduction to evidence-based medicine and pharmacoeconomics
  • International pharmaceutical marketing
  • Product positioning
  • Strategic communication planning
  • Literature searching and medical information services
  • Creative design and production services
  • Exhibition and e-Media products and services

Gardiner-Caldwell Communications is committed to creating an environment where people can flourish. We are rigorous in seeking out and recruiting the best people and providing them every opportunity to succeed in a challenging but rewarding business. The Academy programme provides our employees with continual learning and personal development throughout their career at GCC.