PHARMACOVIGILANCE CAREER

Pharmacovigilance in India and its Scope

·         PHARMACOVIGILANCE IN INDIA AND ITS SCOPE

Pharmacovigilance is the science and the activities that deals with detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effect and related events.

Pharmacovigilance activities, misunderstood by some people that it comes into actuality only post marketing .However, in fact pharmacovigilance activities play an important role throughout the life cycle of the drug.

What do we mean by the life cycle of drug? The drug has to go through different phases to be finally marketed.

The WHO definition of Pharmacovigilance also talks about activities which are further responsible for detection, assessment, understanding and assessment of adverse effects. The various activities that are performed according to pharmacovigilance are Periodic safety update report or Risk benefit evaluation reportwhich are prepared by the companies to submit to the regulatory authority during first year of commercialization of the drugs.

How does the Pharmacovigilance and its activities helps in detection, assessment, understanding and prevention?

Pharmacovigilance in India

One of the most popular courses of ACRI is Pharmacovigilance which would benefit the students to be partaker of Clinical research industry and also at the same time it would provide an opportunity to the candidates to develop their skills and also implement the expertise by working on in-house software project with real life cases.

3 months of class room training and 1 month practice on exclusive software training in processing real cases.

What will I learn if I take up this course?

·         Overview of Pharmacovigilance (PV)

·         Overview of Aggregate reports

·         Pharmacovigilance guidelines

·         Pharmacovigilance frame work and adverse event reporting methodologies acrosscountries

·         CIOMS working committee

·         ICSR narrative and its core content

·         Safety information document used in Pharmacovigilance

·         Risk Management Plan (RMP) and Risk Evaluation And Mitigation Strategy(REMS)

·         Pharmacovigilance softwares used across industry –

·         Life cycle of an ICSR (steps involved in processing an Individual case safety report)

·         Handling of Pharmacovigilance audits and inspections

Is this program right?

If you are a Health science graduate and looking forward to work in an MNC and eager to get knowledge in various real life cases and hands – on software training, then absolutely yes.

Who can apply?

Applicants are recommended to have one of the following :

MBBS/BHMS/BAMS/BPT/MPT/BDS/BMLT/Bachelor in Naturopathy & Veterinary Science/MD/MS. Graduate/Postgraduate degree in Pharmacy/ Pharmaceutical Sciences. Graduate or equivalent degree in Nursing/Allied Health.

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