Introduction to Pharmacovigilance
Course Description
Clinical Research activity will not be completed without pharmacovigilance because drug safety monitoring is the basis for keeping a society safe and healthy. Pharmacovigilance is a scientific discipline which is mainly concerned with identifying, validating, quantifying, evaluating and increasing the drug safety. The main activities in Pharmacovigilance involve providing end to end medical, safety and analytical services which include medical review, causality assessment, case narratives and processing, and prevention of adverse reactions with the involvement of regulatory authority. The Pharmacovigilance course covers all these areas focussing on the reporting systems and the different ADR forms, causality assessment, case narration, risk management plan and various pharmacovigilance programmes. This course will provide a foundation in the pharmacovigilance process and operations. Our curriculum is fully industry specific and is relevant to aspirants who want to join the pharmacovigilance sector from both within and outside the pharmaceutical industry.
This course/ module is valid for 6 months. E- certificate can be downloaded once the student completes the course
Who should apply?
- MBBS/BHMS/BAMS/BPT/MPT/BDS/BMLT/Bachelor in Naturopathy & Veterinary Science /MD/MS
- Graduate/Postgraduate degree in Pharmacy/ Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Graduate/Postgraduate degree in Life Sciences (Botany, Zoology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Genetics, Biotechnology)
- Graduate/Postgraduate degree in Chemistry/Biostatistics/ Bioinformatics
- Graduate or equivalent degree in Nursing/Allied Health
- Students in their final year of graduation for the above courses can also apply
What you will learn in this course
This pharmacovigilance certificate course will help the life science and health science graduates to learn about the overview of PV, learn about AE, ADR reporting, Yellow Card and Medwatch, understand casualty assessment and delve into the practice of narrative writing.
Structure of Course Delivery
The entire Pharmacovigilance course will be made available online. It consists of several in-depth lectures delivered by a subject matter expert, appropriately supported by slides, images, and interactive materials where necessary. The delivery has a tremendous degree of versatility. A class may be paused to allow you to take notes and refer to your textbooks (not provided). If you already know a certain part of the lecture, you can rewind it to hear it again or skip a slide or two. You are free to go back over a section at a later time if you need to review it before your assessment. You are free to take the topics in this online pharmacovigilance course in whatever order you choose, even though our curriculum may prescribe otherwise.
Benefits
Many of our students felt that the way this pharmacovigilance course taught has made it easier for them to keep up with the intense lectures in real class— it's like having a TV remote in class to self-pace your teacher.
Visuals in the presentations aid in better comprehension by making topics easier to learn... and more difficult to forget!
Chapters
This program will provide the students with an opportunity to work with various MNCs.
Students can get engaged in different profiles like
- Drug Safety Associate
- Drug Safety Physician
- Medical Reviewer
- Medical Coder
- Quality Analyst
- Narrative Writer