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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.
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.

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