Narration for Medical Education is a giant, growing multi-faceted voice over niche.
About 25 million health care professionals take required continuing medical education (CME) each year, and much of it includes narrated segments. Globally, about $13 billion will be spent on continuing medical education in 2024
There are narrated trainings on disease states and surgical procedures, drug therapies and clinical trials, training on the use of medical devices and narrated medical animations for complex procedures.
Medical narration scripts can be full of challenging, scientific terms, or they can be a conversational, easy to understand patient education tool.
As a medical narrator you’ll shift comfortably between two voice over styles: peer to peer and peer to patient.
As a peer-to-peer medical narrator, you are playing the part of a doctor, scientist or other medical professional. Your tone is authoritative, scientific, sober. You pronounce complex medical terminology, treatment modalities and drug names confidently and fluidly, as if speaking to a peer
As a peer-to-patient narrator, you play the part of a medical professional speaking to a patient. Your tone is warm, empathetic, comforting, conversational instructive, hopeful. This style is used in patient education, medical device instruction, management of disease states, community healthcare training (new mothers, caring for the elderly etc), pharmaceutical advertising and more.
To be a successful medical narrator, you don’t need a background in healthcare but you should enjoy diving into complex scripts and reading them in a fluid, professional manner.
You should also be able to transmit warmth, caring, hope and support for the patients who listen to your narrations.
In this informative, hands-on workshop intensive you’ll discover