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
Founder and Principal, Scientific Engagement LLC
Medical Affairs Professional Society
Mussa Arvani
Medical Group Lead, Roche Pharma
Medical Affairs Professional Society
Ekkenhard Lange
Regional Medical Director & MSL Lead DM
Medical Affairs Professional Society
Emma Rankine
PhD MBioSci, Expert in Medical Excellence
Medical Affairs Professional Society
Mark Rees-Saunders
International Medical Affairs Lead, MSL & Expansion Markets, Exact Sciences
Medical Affairs Professional Society
Lorna Fergusson
Global Field Medical Excellence Lead, Amgen, Europe GmbH
Medical Affairs Professional Society
Kelly Lo
Field Medical Excellence Lead, Amgen, Global and JAPAC
Medical Affairs Professional Society
Tom Carey
Principal Consultant, MEDiSTRAVA Consulting
Medical Affairs Professional Society