Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance, 7.5 credits

Academic year 2021/2022

  • Autumn 2021, Mixed, 50%, Distance learning

    Start date: 1 November 2021

    End date: 16 January 2022

    Application deadline: 15 April 2021

    Application code: UU-38501 Application

    Language of instruction: English

    Location: Flexible

    Selection: Higher education credits (maximum 285 credits)

    Outline for distance course: The course is entirely web-based and contains no compulsory campus meetings. Lectures are recorded and organised as video/audio sessions and are available on a web-based teaching platform. The students are offered supervised studies via the same teaching platform. This platform is also used for individual assignments, group exercises and discussions. Some of these assignments and exercises are mandatory and the participants are offered general or individual feedback on these moments. The participants and teachers communicate via the website and via email. A forum for discussion is also available. Examination will be in the form of web-based tests or individual assignments. In order to participate in this course you must have access to a computer with a rapid Internet connection, headset with microphone and programs such as Adobe Flash/Connect have to be installed.

    Number of mandatory meetings: 0

    Number of voluntary meetings: 0

    Registration: 1 October 2021 – 15 November 2021

  • Spring 2022, Mixed, 50%, Distance learning

    Start date: 24 March 2022

    End date: 5 June 2022

    Application deadline: 15 October 2021

    Application code: UU-88501 Application

    Language of instruction: English

    Location: Flexible

    Selection: Higher education credits (maximum 285 credits)

    Outline for distance course: The course is entirely web-based and contains no compulsory campus meetings. Lectures are recorded and organised as video/audio sessions and are available on a web-based teaching platform. The students are offered supervised studies via the same teaching platform. This platform is also used for individual assignments, group exercises and discussions. Some of these assignments and exercises are mandatory and the participants are offered general or individual feedback on these moments. The participants and teachers communicate via the website and via email. A forum for discussion is also available. Examination will be in the form of web-based tests or individual assignments. In order to participate in this course you must have access to a computer with a rapid Internet connection, headset with microphone and programs such as Adobe Flash/Connect have to be installed.

    Number of mandatory meetings: 0

    Number of voluntary meetings: 0

    Registration: Please contact the department.

Entry requirements: Adverse Drug Reactions and Pharmacovigilance, 7.5 credits, or at least 2.5 credits from Preclinical Safety Assessment and Pharmacovigilance. Within the Master of Science Programme in Pharmacy 150 credits within the programme are also required, as well as participation in all courses in semesters 1-7.

Fees:

If you are not a citizen of a European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) country, or Switzerland, you are required to pay application or tuition fees. Formal exchange students will be exempted from tuition fees, as well as the application fee. Read more about fees.

Application fee: SEK 900

Tuition fee, first semester: SEK 18,125

Tuition fee, total: SEK 18,125

Please note: We appreciate that you are considering an application to this course. Please make sure that you understand the general and course-specific entry requirements before you apply. You must have passed 2,5 credits in our introductory course Preclinical Safety Assessment and Pharmacovigilance (3FX011 or 3FX211) or the entire course Adverse Drug Reactions and Pharmacovigilance (3FX200) in order to be eligible for this continuation course.

The course is given in collaboration with the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC). UMC is responsible for the management of the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring and the WHO Global ICSR Database.

About the course

This is a continuation course based on the same format as the introductory course (Preclinical Safety Assessment and Pharmacovigilance) but a more comprehensive textbook will be used. We will discuss the principles of benefit/risk profiling of drugs and the safe use of medicines. The course is suitable for those who want to work with adverse drug event reporting and drug safety.

The course will focus on

  • Risk management and communication
  • Adverse event reporting and methods in pharmacovigilance
  • The importance of genetic variation for adverse drug reactions
  • Serious adverse drug reactions
  • Risk/benefit profiling of pharmaceutical drugs especially biologicals and vaccines as well as pharmaceuticals and genetic variation
Please note that this course does not cover the detailed pharmacovigilance guidelines or regulations set up by EMA and FDA or the web-based pharmacovigilance tools set up by these agencies. Furthermore, the course will not cover the detailed regulations for adverse event reporting within pharmaceutical companies.

More information

Syllabus with reading list

More courses in Drug Management

Contact

Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences

Biomedicinskt centrum BMC, Husargatan 3

Box 591, 751 24 UPPSALA

Eva Brittebo

Email: eva.brittebo@farmbio.uu.se

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