Opening Doors: How to join pharma through a Medical Writing fellowship program

06/20/22 • 18 min

In this episode of the Elevate podcast channel, Opening Doors series, MAPS speaks with Renu Juneja, who started a medical writing fellowship program at Janssen, and with two of her former fellowship participants, Jennifer Lee and Lauren Brown. We hope you enjoy this look at one way to find a first position in the pharmaceutical industry!

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