What is pharmacovigilance course?

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Asked by pravesh jain

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    saumya gupta | Guide-Level 11

    8 years ago
    Hi Pravesh
    Pharmacovigilance, in layman's terms is drug safety. It can be defined as the study and prevention of adverse effects caused by pharmaceutical products. Pharmacovigilance is the reason that many drugs are withdrawn from or not even brought into the market at times.
    The government supports and helps to implement courses in pharmacovigilance as their primary goal is to ensure students of medicine are aware of the adverse effects of certain pharmaceuticals. Pharmacovigilance makes it possible to implement quality systems in all pharmaceutical companies thatmanufacture large amounts of medicine.
    Training in pharmacovigilance is don
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    manjiri Joshi 25 years of exp in pharma & clinical research

    8 years ago
    Pharmacovigilance is tracking drug safety and reporting to regulatory periodically.
    There are training courses available .If you ate good in pharmacology and have good knowledge of pharma industry, you need not even join a course.
    however if interested Here is complete information about the courses offered by Ukaat
    There are three courses related to clinical research They are 1) clinical operations if you want to work as CRC or CRA
    2) CDM if you are interested in data management and want to work in IT company
    3) .PV If you are not sure which one you want to take up, or you want to keep your options open, you could opt for a combination cour
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    Parul Thapa | Contributor-Level 10

    3 months ago

    The Pharmacovigilance course comes under the Pharmacy stream. The pharmaceutical Science about the 'collection, detection, assessment, monitoring, and prevention' of adverse effects with pharmaceutical goods is known as pharmacovigilance, commonly referred to as drug safety. Pharmacovigilance courses are available at many levels such as UG, PG, Doctorate, etc.

    Depending on the Pharmacovigilance course, bachelor's studies last three to four years. Like other courses, the master's programmes last for two years. Most Certification programmes last between six months and a year.

    Pharmacokinetics, Drug Delivery Systems, Regulatory Affairs

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