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Top Online Channels for HCP Education

Physicians already research online. The question is whether your science is built for where they look.

The short version
  • A physician with a clinical question searches, watches a short video, listens to a podcast on the drive home. The journal is one stop among several now.
  • Pharma teams put real work into HCP education. The problem is that 63% of the time, physicians read only the abstract, not the full paper.
  • Video and interactive formats compress a long publication into something a physician can finish in the time she actually has.

Physicians already research online. The question is whether your science is built for where they look. Here's what we found, and what it means for how you build your next story.

01The journal isn’t the whole picture anymore

A physician with a clinical question searches, watches a short video, listens to a podcast on the drive home. The journal is still there, but it's one stop among several, not the only one.

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of the time, physicians read only the abstract of a publication, not the full paper.

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MLR review covers every version, however many journeys one approved core holds.

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languages one approved core is produced in, without restarting the scientific review each time.

Every figure here is independently sourced.

02Why the good content doesn’t land

Pharma teams put real work into HCP education. The problem is that 63% of the time, physicians read only the abstract of the publications they do open. Whatever channel that content sits on, if the format is a wall of text, the format loses first.

“Whatever channel that content sits on, if the format is a wall of text, the format loses first.”

03What actually holds attention

Video and interactive formats compress a long publication into something a physician can finish, then let her choose to go deeper if the topic is hers.

04Building education that survives the click

We build the science once as a visual, interactive core, so it works whether it lives on your HCP portal, gets shared after a congress session, or sits inside a rep's iPad.

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Whichever channel wins, the physician still wants their own way in.

The channel debate settles little if every channel carries the same one-size story. Smart Pathways turns one approved publication into a line for every physician, wherever it lands: field, inbox or booth. Tap a face and follow their line.

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One approved publication, a line for every physician, on every channel.

  • The same publication travels every channel: the rep visit, the inbox, the congress screen.
  • Each physician picks their line. The depth changes, the approved science does not.
  • One MLR pass covers every branch, because every stop was already reviewed.
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We build the science communication our own field teams would want to use, then hand it to yours. This post came out of that same process.

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The format decides before the channel does. Whether the content sits on an HCP portal, follows a congress session, or lives on a rep's iPad, a wall of text loses first. Built once as a visual, interactive core, the same science works across all of them.

Yes, but it's one stop among several now. A physician with a clinical question also searches, watches a short video, and listens to a podcast on the drive home.

Opening isn't finishing. 63% of the time, physicians read only the abstract of a publication, not the full paper.