CE&SC-ExternalScientificengagement

About This Standards & Guidance

This S&G provides a structured framework to help Medical Affairs, including Field Medical teams, align strategy with patient impact. It offers guidance, practical tools, and recommendations to support Field Medical in planning, executing, and evaluating the value and impact of their scientific engagements. By leveraging this framework, Field Medical professionals can enhance the effectiveness of their interactions with HCPs, ensuring that medical strategies translate into meaningful outcomes for patients.

In this Standards & Guidance you will learn:

This resource has been developed with senior Medical Affairs professionals to provide guidance and recommendations on external scientific engagement for Field Medical :

  • What is the purpose of Field Medical?
  • How can Field Medical Teams be structured?
  • Who are the stakeholders for Field Medical, how should they be engaged?
  • What is the role of insights generation within Field Medical?
  • What skills and capabilities are required success?
  • How can we measure the impact of Field Medical?

MAPS would like to thank the following authors:

Richard Swank

Richard Swank

Founder and Principal, Scientific Engagement LLC
Mussa Arvani

Mussa Arvani

Medical Group Lead, Roche Pharma
Ekkenhard Lange

Ekkenhard Lange

Regional Medical Director & MSL Lead DM
Emma Rankine

Emma Rankine

PhD MBioSci, Expert in Medical Excellence
Mark Rees-Saunders

Mark Rees-Saunders

International Medical Affairs Lead, MSL & Expansion Markets, Exact Sciences
Lorna Fergusson

Lorna Fergusson

Global Field Medical Excellence Lead, Amgen, Europe GmbH
Kelly Lo

Kelly Lo

Field Medical Excellence Lead, Amgen, Global and JAPAC
Tom Carey

Tom Carey

Principal Consultant, MEDiSTRAVA Consulting