“Finding your way through the pharmaceutical text jungle: A guided tour” lautet das Thema, das Marion Alzer gemeinsam mit Susanne Geercken von der Pfizer Pharma GmbH auf der internationalen Fachkonferenz MedTranslate präsentieren wird. Basierend auf ihrer langjährigen Erfahrung geben die Referentinnen Einblicke in die Besonderheiten und Herausforderungen bei der Übersetzung von Texten aus der pharmazeutischen Medizin.

Abstract

Finding your way through the pharmaceutical text jungle: A guided tour

Developing new medicines and making them available for patients is a global challenge, and good communication between stakeholders including pharmaceutical specialists, regulatory bodies and patients is critical at every stage of the drug life-cycle. When translating texts relating to pharmaceutical medicine, we often ask ourselves how they fit into the overall picture of drug development, registration, marketing and post-marketing pharmacovigilance. During this session, we will take a virtual walk through the pharmaceutical text jungle.

Looking at relevant types of texts, we will talk about their authors and target audience(s) and will examine their characteristic features and purpose of use. We will find out where these texts have their place in the overall pharmaceutical context, why they need translation at all, and which hurdles need to be tackled when translating these texts. Patient informed consent forms and texts from the health economics and pharmacovigilance domains will be dealt with in more detail. Examples will be taken from the language pair English and German throughout this guided tour.

Die MedTranslate findet vom 3. bis 5. Oktober 2014 in Freiburg im Breisgau statt und bietet professionellen Sprachdienstleistern aus den Bereichen Medizin und Pharma ein Forum zur fachlichen Weiterbildung, zum Erfahrungsaustausch und zum Netzwerken.