Accelerate your freelance CME writing business growth.

A guided journey + ongoing community experience for ambitious CME writers.

We walk you through the CME landscape and equip you with all the skills you need to launch and grow a freelance CME writing business.

You already know your words have power to shape the future of healthcare.

You find joy in supporting health professionals in their clinical work through continuing education.

But navigating the CME field is overwhelming and you don’t know where to go from here.

Many talented writers hesitate to enter CME because they:

  • Struggle to grasp the required competencies and industry expectations

  • Don’t know how to position their expertise for this specialized niche

  • Aren’t sure where to find quality, high-paying clients

What if we worked together to transform your CME writing journey into a sustainable and wildly fulfilling freelance writing business?

You are…

An Academic

You’re leaving academia behind, drawn to the flexibility and autonomy of freelance medical writing. But the leap feels overwhelming because:

  • Your expertise feels too theoretical—you’re unsure how to apply it to CME.

  • You don’t know where to start—the CME world has unfamiliar rules, formats, and clients.

  • You’re used to structured environments—figuring out how to market yourself and find clients is uncharted territory.

What if you had a clear roadmap to turn your academic expertise into a thriving freelance CME career?

A Clinician

You’re approaching burnout and want to use your medical expertise in a meaningful, creative way. But CME feels daunting because:

  • Writing for education feels different from writing case notes—you need guidance on structuring effective learning content.

  • You’re unfamiliar with the CME industry’s structure—who creates education? Who are the clients? Where do you fit in?

  • You want to leave clinical burnout behind—but you’re not sure how to make CME writing a stable, well-paid career.

What if you had mentoring to transform your clinical knowledge into a fulfilling, high-value writing business?

A Medical Writer

You’re an established medical writer and ready to specialize in CME to boost your earning potential. But niche writing feels uncertain because:

  • You’re unsure if your work is hitting the mark—without feedback from peers or mentors, you second-guess whether your writing aligns with industry best practices.

  • You’re not always confident advocating for yourself–without insights into industry standards, it’s hard to confidently negotiate rates or pitch your expertise to clients.

What if you belonged to a vibrant community of CME professionals to elevate your skills and confidence?

You want to…

  1. Start positioning yourself as a valuable partner in the CME/CE field. You want to be well-compensated and make an intentional living from the valuable work of creating continuing education content for health professionals.

  2. Scale your business without compromising your wellbeing. You want to command higher rates in a way that still allows you to set strong boundaries on your work and doesn’t compromise your wellbeing.

  3. Make new business friends who share your values and are ready to root for your success. You want to surround yourself with other ambitious and kind people who value growth mindset and lifelong learning.

You want to design a life and business that feels right to you.

A medical writing business that leverages what’s unique about you while helping healthcare professionals stay current and contributing to better patient outcomes.

Here's some of what you DON’T need in order to build a profitable CME writing business from scratch:

🚫 You don’t need a CME background.

🚫 You don’t need a large client roster.

🚫 You don’t need to spend all day on social media to bring in new clients.

🚫 You don’t need to work 80-hour (or even 40-hour) weeks.

Here’s what happens when you commit to building a thriving and sustainable CME writing business that plays to your unique strengths:

  1. Clarity & Confidence – You gain a deep understanding of the CME landscape, so you can position yourself as an expert and attract the right opportunities.

  2. High-Value Work – You confidently pursue and secure well-paying CME projects that increase in profitability over time—no more undervaluing your skills.

  3. Meaningful Impact – You build relationships with clients who align with your values, allowing you to create education that truly improves healthcare outcomes.

  4. More Freedom, Less Hustle – Your business becomes efficient and predictable, requiring less of your time while delivering consistent revenue.

If this resonates with you, we'd love to help you make this your reality.

WriteCME Pro is a deeply enriching yearlong community experience designed to take the guesswork out of how to launch and grow a CME writing business.

In our learning community you will…

LEARN

Uplevel your writing skills, optimize your content, and build a portfolio that attracts the right CME projects & clients for you.

CONNECT

Gain access to industry expertise and connect with a wonderful group of peers with diverse experience in many aspects of CME.

LAUNCH

Get clarity, mentoring, and hands-on support as you step into the field and tell the world about your business.

It’s time to launch and grow a rewarding CME writing business with confidence and heart.

No compromises needed.

WriteCME Pro equips you with a clear roadmap to grow a calm, fulfilling, and sustainable CME writing business. We offer everything you need to either launch a business from scratch, or move towards your next growth milestone in your existing business.

What you get

🎓 Foundational curriculum

Immediate access to our signature ROADMAP curriculum. Learn at your own pace in sequence, or skip around the content and choose your own adventure as you apply what you learn.

📓 Comprehensive workbook

No need to take notes! Most lessons include a worksheet to summarize the concepts and a practical activity help you apply what you learn to your own content and business.

☎️ Group coaching

A place to bring all your specific questions. Brainstorm and troubleshoot challenges with Alex and your peers. Group coaching sessions are all year round 1-2 times per month.

🎉 Community events

Monthly AMAs with Alex, Expert Perspectives, quarterly sprints, and themed workshops are your opportunity to connect and learn from fellow writerpreneurs.

Private community

Access to our community on Circle where you can connect with peers, learn about topics not covered in the course lessons, get access to our tools database and find inspiration from businesses of all stages, focuses and sizes.

🎉 Celebrate yourself

👂 Ask for feedback

🧠  Brainstorm answers

📣 Ask a discussion question

👩🏽‍💻 Discuss what you're learning

Join our next live learning experience

WriteCME Accelerator 🚀

Access to a live learning experience that happens 3 times a year is included in your community membership. Accelerator includes an interactive curriculum where you'll get coaching and support from Alex and the group as you apply the lessons to your own business.

How it works

The live learning experience is an express onboarding to the community and curriculum, designed to help you take action. At the end of Week 8, you’ll understand all the pieces of the CME landscape and have a clear roadmap for your next steps.

The weekly group coaching sessions are not lectures and are not the same as the pre-recorded lessons. These sessions are your opportunity to learn and apply the information in one session. Group coaching will condense your learning and strategizing into 8 weeks.

1. Build Your Portfolio

We walk you through the CME landscape and core deliverables, and guide you in building your portfolio. You can join with nothing to show and you’ll leave ready to pitch clients.

2. Solidify Your Services

We help you clarify what you want from your business. You’ll lay a strong foundation for a business that plays to your unique strengths and works for your services.

3. Accelerate Growth

You’ll learn and test out strategies for identifying quality clients and land on a repeatable, compounding process that grows your revenue.

If you can’t make it live, everything is recorded, annotated, and available on an on-the-go private podcast feed. Though attending live is totally optional, we highly recommend it as a way to kickstart your learning, get the most out of the curriculum, and implement what you learn.

What you’ll learn

The foundational ROADMAP curriculum covers the topics below. The pre-recorded audio lessons are designed to be a guided introduction to the topics while the yearlong community membership helps you troubleshoot as you go deeper and apply the learnings in your content and business.

The content is separated into multimedia lessons. You're invited to choose your own adventure, skip what's not helpful to you and learn at your own pace.

🔎 Research

Researching is about familiarizing yourself with policies, ethics, and key stakeholders in the field of CME. It’s one of the first steps to gaining a solid foundation for navigating the world of CME writing and exploring potential clients.

The Research modules guide you through the CME landscape and core deliverables, exploring the history, purpose, key players, regulations, and trends in the CME field to help you gain a comprehensive understanding of the terrain you'll be navigating.

    • 🎧 Big Picture: What is CME?

    • 🎧 History of CME in the USA

    • 🎧 Major Stakeholders in CME

    • 🧰 CME Activity Examples Bank

    • 📄 The Context of Healthcare

    • 🎧 Current Trends in CME

    • 🎯 Milestone: CME Landscape Mapping

    • 🎧 Accreditation Bodies and Standards

    • 📄 Compliance and Ethics in CME Content Development

    • 🎧 BONUS: The Vital Role of Integrity and Trust in Accredited CE

    • 📄 What Do Health Professionals Do?

    • 🎧 Global CME

    • 🎧 Credit and Compliance

    • 🎯 Milestone: Audience Analysis

🌟 Optimize

As CME writers, we need to apply adult learning principles (ALPs) to create compelling, effective education that engages healthcare professionals and drives lasting impact.

In Optimize modules, you’ll practice applying adult learning principles and science insights to create compelling, effective education that engages health professionals and improves retention.

You will also identify clinical practice and performance gaps and learn how the field measures impact.

    • 🎧 Competency-Based and Interprofessional Continuing Education

    • 🎧 Education Planning

    • 🎧 The Role and Function of a Needs Assessment

    • 📄 Grant Proposals & RFP Process

    • 🎯 Milestone: Evaluate a Needs Assessmen

    • 🎧 Clinical and Performance Practice Gaps

    • 🎧 How to identify clinical practice gaps

    • 🎧 The writer's role in gap analysis

    • 🧰 Gap Analysis Framework

    • 🎯 Milestone: Gap Identification

    • 🎧 Adult Learning Principles: A Primer

    • 📄 Stages of Change

    • 🎥 Lessons from Learning Science

    • 🎥 Crafting Learning Objectives

    • 📄 Analyzing and Improving CE Content

    • 🎯 Milestone: Learning Objectives Practice

    • 🎥 Introduction to Outcomes

    • 🎥 Moore's Outcomes Framework

    • 🎥 Kirkpatrick Model, Confidence, Self-Efficacy

    • 🎥 Measuring Outcomes

    • 📄 Qualitative Data in CME Outcomes

    • 📄 Reporting Outcomes

    • 🎯 Milestone: Describe Anticipated Outcomes

🧩 Adapt

Needs assessments are a common deliverable that many education providers include in grant proposals.

But there are so many more formats and deliverables that writers can contribute to in CME. The Adapt modules help you familiarize yourself with different formats, such as interactive cases, quizzes, assessments, reports, and more.

You’ll learn how to develop your versatility across these deliverables and tailor content to different audiences.

    • 📄 Introduction to CME Formats + Deliverables

    • 🎥 Tactics to Support Learning

    • 🎧 Developing Fair and Balanced Content

    • 🧰 Education Activity Formats and Frameworks

    • 📄 CME Formats and Deliverables

    • 👣 Step-by-Step Process for Creating an Activity Agenda

    • 🎯 Milestone: Reflection Around Formats

    • ✍️ Portfolio Practice: Needs Assessment Overview

    • ✍️ Portfolio Practice: Patient Cases Overview

    • ✍️ Portfolio Practice: White Paper Overview

    • ✍️ Portfolio Practice: CME Slide Decks Overview

    • 🎯 Upload Your Portfolio Draft

🖋 Discover

Improving your CME writing can help you work faster, bring in more clients, and, most importantly, give you more opportunities to win projects you enjoy.

By reflecting on your distinctive strengths, experiences, and core values, you’ll learn to identify and leverage your existing skills in CME writing and areas where you can expand your expertise. The Discover modules help you define your personal measures of success as a CME writer.

    • 🎧 What's Your Skill Archetype?

    • 📄 Getting to Know Your Prospects

    • 🎯 Milestone: SKILLS Matrix

⚖️ Maintain

As a freelance CME writer, your business should support your financial goals, personal well-being, and long-term vision. Too often, we focus solely on revenue generation without considering the broader impact on their lifestyle, mental health, and personal ambitions.

In Maintain, you’ll explore legal considerations, insurance needs, and record-keeping to ensure your business operates smoothly and remains compliant. And you’ll design a business that serves both your professional and personal well-being by reviewing your business in the broader context of your life, by asking key questions, and setting intentional goals.

    • 🎧 Setting Priorities & Revenue Goals

    • 🎧 Personal Well-Being as a Business Owner

    • 🎯 Milestone: Your Founder Story

    • 🎧 Introduction to Business Structures

    • 🎧 Setting Up Your Systems

    • 🧰 Tools Database

    • 🎯 Milestone: Your Business Templates + Tech Stack

↔️ Align

As a freelance CME business owner, you’re not just a writer—you’re a consultant, a partner, a strategist, and a business owner. To build a sustainable business, you need to clearly define your offerings, develop pricing strategies that reflect your value, and establish strong project management and negotiation skills.

The Align modules teach you to be intentional about crafting a CME writing business that aligns with your professional aspirations and personal fulfillment. You’ll pave the road to seek out projects and collaborators that inspire you.

    • 🎧 Define Your Core Services

    • 📄 Step-by-Step Differentiation Activity

    • 🎧 Pricing Strategies

    • 🎯 Milestone: Create Your Services One Pager

    • 🎧 Qualifying Your Clients

    • 🎧 Project Scoping

    • 📄 Project Management 101

    • 🎯 Case Study: Evaluating Project Scopes & Fees

📣 Promote

How can you build a consistent, effective marketing plan for your business? Everyone tells you to network. But who should you network with?

In Promote, you’ll learn how to establish your credibility and visibility in the field by building relationships through strategic networking, demonstrating your expertise by sharing knowledge, and creating a strong professional identity with an optimized online presence.

    • 🎧 Building Relationships

    • 🎧 Establishing Authority in Your Niche

    • 🎧 Creating a strong professional identity

    • 🎯 Milestone: Create Your Marketing Plan

Stories from the WriteCME Pro community

Join the waitlist

The next WriteCME Accelerator cohort starts in May 2025.

Your first year in WriteCME Pro includes access to our intensive live learning experience WriteCME Accelerator, monthly group coaching support, and a clear roadmap to help you start, pivot, or launch.

By the end of our first quarter together, you’ll have everything you need to take your business to the next level of growth.

For special early bird offers, join the waitlist 👇

There’s no commitment if you join the waitlist, it just means you’ll hear from us ahead of the official announcement with a special early bird rate.

Hi! I’m Alex.

I used to be a clinician, academic, and researcher. Now, my mission is to help writers like you confidently create compelling education content and build a sustainable, rewarding CME/CE writing niche.

As someone who started out with no industry experience, no network outside of academia, and—really—no clue, I know you have what it takes to break into the field of CME/CE writing.

Together, we’ll navigate the world of CME/CE content and position you for long-term success in this thriving writing niche.

Our Why

CME/CE is a multi-billion dollar industry with multiple opportunities for skilled writers to create content that connects with and educates health professionals.

The demand for skilled medical writers is growing, and there are plenty of opportunities for those who are driven to make a meaningful impact in the healthcare industry. What we choose to include in our CME materials can influence equity in healthcare settings, which just goes to show that clinical care isn't the only way to make a positive impact on patients daily.

Someone has to write the educational materials that our health professionals use to stay up to date on best practices. That someone could be you.

What we believe

  • - We believe in the power of connection and community to transform individual success into collective growth. Every CME writer brings unique experiences and perspectives that enrich our shared learning journey.

  • - We believe that empathy and compassion are fundamental to creating meaningful educational experiences. When we understand the needs of health professionals and their patients, we create content that drives real change.

  • - We believe in fostering curiosity as the foundation for growth. The best CME writers are lifelong learners who approach each project with openness and wonder.

  • - We believe in empowering writers to build sustainable, fulfilling careers that align with their values and life goals. Your success as a CME writer should enhance, not compromise, your wellbeing.

  • - We believe that quality CME writing creates a chain of positive impact - from supporting fellow writers, to educating health professionals, to improving patient outcomes.

FAQs

  • WriteCME Pro is a year-long community of practice designed to give you the skills and confidence necessary to build and grow a freelance CME writing business. You’ll get the support you need to understand and craft core deliverables in CME, identify and connect with major stakeholders in the field, clarify what you want from your business, and develop strategy for finding prospective clients.

  • WriteCME Accelerator is a dedicated program and 8-week live learning experience designed to kickstart the lessons, knowledge fundamentals, and competencies you’ll need to succeed as a CME writer. You’ll get access to a competency-based curriculum, coaching support, and the WriteCME Pro community.

    WriteCME Accelerator is built on everything we've learned from years of running courses and coaching sessions to provide a comprehensive, supportive, and practical program focused on getting you real results.

  • Everything is designed to meet you where you are. We aim for the time spent in this program to be worth your time in the connection you make, learnings, and revenue that will result in your business.

    During our 8 weeks together, there will be an hour of live programming per week. And we also recommend setting aside 2+ hours a week to make the changes to your business in real time.

    In total, to make the most of the program, we recommend a total of 3-5 hours a week between learning and implementing.

    And also, everything is recorded, so it’s up to you!

  • Our next live learning experience will happen in March 2025.

    However, you don't need to wait until a live learning experience to join. The community has open enrollment for most of the year. Many members find it helpful to join at least a few weeks in advance of the live sessions.

  • You’ll have access to the entire curriculum, events, and community for as long as you're a part of WriteCME Pro. At the end of your initial 12 months, you'll have an option to continue your journey in the community and retain access to the content.

  • Everything is recorded and annotated and you do not need to be present live to have your questions answered. Though there’s a bit of magic in attending live, you may choose to listen to the recordings later via an on-the-go exclusive podcast feed.

  • If you're feeling uncertain, you’re not alone. Many successful CME writers started exactly where you are. WriteCME Accelerator is specifically designed to help you assess your readiness and move forward with confidence.

    This program is a good fit if you:

    • Are driven by curiosity and consider yourself a lifelong learner, information synthesizer, and problem solver.

    • Are motivated to support health professionals in their clinical work but need guidance to navigate the CME field, launch a successful business, and find clients.

    • Have a background in healthcare, medical writing, academia, or related fields

    • Are willing to learn and implement new skills systematically

    • Can commit 3-5 hours per week to building your foundation

    The ROADMAP framework we use helps you progress at your own pace while ensuring you build the right skills in the right order. You'll have 8 weeks of group coaching to address your specific concerns, plus a supportive community of writers who understand exactly what you're experiencing.

    Remember, you don't need to have everything figured out before you start. The program is designed to help you evaluate your readiness, identify your strengths, and develop a transition plan that makes sense for your situation.

  • Yes, you have the option to pay in installments. We charge a small fee for this.

  • If you decide the community is not for you, you can request a refund 15 days from the date of purchase.

    Exclusions:

    • Downloadable materials already accessed

    Process:

    • Submit a request via email

    • 5-7 business days processing

    • Refund to the original payment method

  • Email us at alex@alexhowson.com or book a clarity call.

Ready to go?

We are proud to support ambitious medical writers get paid for their work of making sure that health professionals are armed with the knowledge and skills they need to deliver top-notch care.

If this resonates with you, we hope you’ll consider joining us!