The MJoTA Certificate of Medical Writing and Regulatory Writing is awarded to students who have successfully completed the MJoTA Africa Foundation courses in medical writing and regulatory writing. Students with undergraduate life science and health science degrees must complete all the modules. Students with doctorates enrolled in the MJoTA Mentorship Program may test out of some of the modules. The course material for the Certificate material is accessed through locked pages, the portal is reached through the left menu, click on MAF Certificate or click here.
The certificate program has 3 formal courses. The matriculated student works his or her way through each of approximately 12 topics in each course by first calling in for a mini-webinar, then working through the topics by reading, viewing, editing, writing, and is after being assigned a grade for that topic, goes onto the next topic. All three topics can be taken in parallel or in sequence. The program takes 4 to 8 months, depending on the student's commitment.
1) regulatory documentation
2) medical writing
3) marketing yourself as a medical writer
Answers to frequently asked questions
1) How do you teach?
Answer: by phone, email, online webinars (you log in and you can see my computer screen and we can talk), online chat groups. The course is
non-traditional, very much one-on-one, with access to locked pages
which have ever-increasing resources, lectures and documents.
2) How many certificates have been awarded?
None yet, everyone has received contracts and left the program before the courses could be completed. We don't kick you out when you get a contract, we are happy for you to continue and earn the certificate.
3) How much does it cost?
$1200, mail to MJoTA Africa Foundation President, Dr SJ Dodgson, PO Box 381, Haddonfield, New Jersey 08033. We don't cash your check for 2 weeks.
4) What do I get for my money?
Formal lectures, access to MJoTA intellectual property, one-on-one mentoring, work on resumes, job leads, assessment about which jobs in the pharmaceutical industry are right for you. Maybe you really should not be a medical writer, we work with you to find the right career path, the right contract.
5) Are the certificates accredited?
MJoTA Africa Foundation is working with an accrediting agency to get the certificate courses and mentoring program accredited as continuing education.
6) What if I am not African and am not interested in anything that happens in Africa or in African communities? In fact, I think that Africa is a country!
Unless you have an open mind, and understand that Europeans and Americans have been guilty for centuries of exploiting Africa and Africans, this is probably not the right program for you.
7) What if I really want to take the course because I want to learn how to write because I want to prepare business plans to build a hospital or a manufacturing plant, but I do not want to work in the pharmaceutical industry?
All students are accepted depending on their individual skills and goals. If you really want to take the course and have fulfilled the other requirements, we will accept you.