Medical Affairs
Medical affairs is at the forefront of innovation in today's pharmaceutical and biotech companies. They play a key role in building strategic alliances with key opinion leaders (KOLs) and other key external stakeholders.
Partnering with the top 250+ pharma, biotech and healthcare organizations
What we do
Over the last 10 years, the ACMA has worked with major pharmaceutical and biotech companies to shape their medical affairs & medical science liaison organizations.
The pharmaceutical industry operates within a rapidly changing environment, and medical affairs are becoming increasingly integral to that long-term success.
How can ACMA transform a medical affairs team into a company's key strategic pillar?
Establish the highest competency standards across the medical affairs & MSL organization
Ensure that medical affairs & MSL competencies are level-set and uniform across an organization
Implement a top tier learning academy that serves as a roadmap for continuous professional development
Provide the medical affairs & MSL organization with key performance indicators that drive performance & achieve overall business objectives
Since 2015, ACMA experts draw from deep expertise in medical affairs—both serving individual clients and leading cross-industry initiatives—to help the medical affairs & MSL function fulfill its potential to improve patient outcomes and experiences.
Learn more about ACMA Educational ServicesFeatured capabilities
Individual Certification of Medical Affairs & MSL Professionals
Board Certified Medical Affairs Specialist (BCMAS™)
The Board Certified Medical Affairs Specialist (BCMAS) program unifies both the US and global medical affairs & MSL capabilities and covers a range of key topics across the MSL & medical affairs profession. BCMAS helps professionals tackle common challenges for medical affairs & MSL teams. Since its inception in 2015, BCMAS has become the official standard board certification for medical affairs & medical science liaison profession, codifying a unified vision for the future, and becoming the key cornerstone of the medical affairs and MSL field.
ACMA Learning Library
The ACMA can build your own enterprise-level educational solutions. The ACMA Learning Library has enabled numerous up-and-coming medical affairs & MSL organizations to advance their organizations and lead an evolution to enhance their team's medical affairs capabilities. The ACMA Learning Library helps clients with the below solutions.
Build enterprise level educational services
E-Learning Content Hosting
Cutting edge library of e-learning solutions where we can host or house content for clients
Custom Training Solutions
Customized training delivered in formats relevant to your team's needs - live in-person, live-virtual, or online e-modules
Educational & learning solutions
Convert content into an educational learning solution via cutting-edge, advanced, e-learning courses with analytics, insights and more
Custom Accredited Certifications
Scale your learning platform and establish customized, accredited certifications for your products and skills/capabilities
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ACMA Digital Solutions
The ACMA's digital Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled solutions tailor designed for medical affairs and medical information departments help medical affairs organizations save time, resources and improve overall capabilities and effectiveness with external and internal stakeholders.
ACMA Advisory Services
The ACMA Life Sciences Advisory Services helps support medical affairs and medical science liaison organizations with:
Cultivating Evidence Generation Leading rapid-cycle, integrated evidence generation across HEOR, RWE, Phase IIIb/IV, and all other data, supported by customized content and guidance tailored to your specific needs.
Accelerating access to treatments - Clearly articulating clinical and economic value (including data) to build trust with partners and accelerate access to treatment to ensure that the right patient gets the right treatment at the right time. Transforming and personalizing medical engagement - Upgrading physician and patient decision making by engaging providers, patients, and others with tailored information that improves outcomes, supported by a reimagined insight-generation process.
Optimizing Medical Affairs Governance - Providing strategic medical direction to enhance decision-making, improve patient outcomes, and ensure regulatory compliance
Organization that is steering resources for maximum medical impact, injecting new capabilities, and upgrading performance at scale to create medical affairs & MSL professionals who drive and shape the future of medical affairs and the company as a whole.
Medical Affairs capabilities & metrics
Medical affairs organizational hierarchy
Medical Affairs insights & how to develop an effective process to maximize those insights
Creating a compliant omnichannel data generation system or workflow
ACMA “On Call” Compliance Support for compliance and medical affairs best practice questions
ACMA Organizational Accreditation
Using data points from over 185 companies, as well as input from regulatory agencies, the ACMA has developed 14 standards that any medical affairs/MSL organization can help incorporate to establish best practices across their organization. ACMA can accredit your medical affairs/MSL organization to help you stay more compliant and more effective when engaging both internal and external stakeholders. Learn More about ACMA Organizational Accreditation