Which one is better between Medical Coding and Pharmacovigilance?

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3 months ago

It depends on many factors like one's preferences, career goals, skill sets and also personal liking. 

Medical Coding is about deciding standardized codes to medical terms and process. It needs a strong understanding of medical terms, anatomy and also coding rules.

But Pharmacovigilance is about check

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5 years ago
Absolutely Pharmacovigilance because Pharmacovigilance is the best field to study about the available drugs as well as their side effects. Pharmacovigilance is completely research based stream and it is most demanding domain for pharmaceutical professionals. MeDRA, ICH ethics, ADR etc. Number of tec

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6 years ago
Clinical Research has more opportunities than Medical coding. Clinical Research deals with research aspects of new drugs & formulations. It deals with research project designing and research project management as per GCP guidelines. Clinical Research as two components one is Clinical Trials & Pharma

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saumya gupta
9 years ago
Both are good fields But if you are from core pharma background, I would suggest you to go for Pharmacovigilance

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Thank you for your suggestion. Yes, I am from pharma background.

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