A List of Best Pharmacovigilance Courses in Pune and India

1. A List of Best Pharmacovigilance Courses inIndia • Pharmacovigilance careeris in demand with excellent professional growth leading to managerial and director roles with handsome salary packages. Let us see in detail about what this profession has to offer. • Pharmacovigilance • This field mainly works on detection, assessment, understanding and prevent adverse effects, mostly long term and short-term side effects of medicines. It is also abbreviated as PV or Phv. You need to gather information, monitor, research, assess and evaluate from the healthcare providers and patients about various ill effects of medicines, herbalism, traditionalmedicines: • Getting to know new information about hazards linked withmedicines • Protecting patients fromharms. • Pharmacovigilance is a promisingcareer • It is an ideal career option for life science and pharmacy graduates. They are very much responsible for the safety of drugs that have been launched in the market. It is an ongoing process for them to inspect the drugs in all the clinical trials. When a side effect of the drug is reported the Pharmacovigilance officials inspect the databases and take a follow-up and forward the reports to the concerned authorities. • Development in Pharmacovigilancecareer • The framework of pharmacovigilance has been governed by the regulatory bodies like DCGI, US- FDA, EMEA etc. There is a large number of career options in this field and there has been a drastic improvement in career options from 2008 till 2015. India is regarded as the fourth largest pharmaceutical producer with more than 6000 licensed drug producers and 60000 branded formulations. Let us see how will the Pharmacovigilance career grow inIndia: • Lakhs of formulation in the domestic market arepresent • Very high Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR)database • Lots of patients with differentgenetics • Lots of licensed drug producers inIndia. • Job description: Clinical-research

2. Let us see what this professional do: • Note down all the adverse event reports received andcompleted • Source documents are reviewed and checked and the data is compiled in an adverse event report. • Safety database has all the datareports • Safety database also contains the code adverseevents • Labeling, comparing the events of previously reported and contained productlabel • The report is released to the safetydatabase. • Job prospects: • Asperyoureducationalqualification,thesalariesofafresherdifferseveryyear. Let us see the hierarchy of theworkplace: • If you are a fresher or a life science graduate then you will be appointed as a Drug Safety Associate. In this profile you will be working on case creation, MSI, check up data entry of all information present in the document and medicalcoding. • After working as DSA for 2 to 3 years acquiring skills related to Medical coding, narrative, and getting to know the basic medical jargons then you can easily get promoted to become a DSS (Drug Safety Scientist). • You can also pursue full time into writing for PSUR (Periodic Safety Update Report) and PADER (Periodic Adverse Drug Experience Reports) and become an Aggregate ReportScientist. • Finally, you get the position of a Director or Vice-President with an experience of 9 to 10years. • Pay-scale: • Fresher: Rs 15000 to20,000 • After 5 years: Rs 50,000 to60,000 • After 10 years: More than Rs 80,000 to90,000 • Growth prospect: • Let us see various career options in thisfield: • KPOs like Accenture andQuintiles • Pharmaceutical Companies (MNC and Indian) and Biotechcompanies • Regulatory Agencies like DCG(I) &CDSCO Clinical-research

3. Clinical ResearchOrganizations • Pharmacovigilance Units in Medical Colleges andHospitals • Other PharmacovigilanceCompanies: • Bioserve • Asian Clinical Trialsserene • Clinigene • Clintecinternational • Elly lilly • Dr Reddy'sLab • IGATE clinicalresearch • Johnson andJohnson • LupinLimited • Matrix laboratoriesltd • Novartis • Merck • Reliance Lifescience • Amed • Accutest • Actimus • Adroitinsights • Alembic • Asian ClinicalTrials • Matrix laboratoriesltd Clinical-research

4. Quintiles • Pharmanet • Reliance lifescience • Pharmacovigilance coursesoffered by Pharmacovigilancecolleges: • ICRI's Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Research andPharmacovigilance • Catalyst's Professional Certificate inPharmacovigilance • To know more about Clinical Research and Clinical Trials stay connected tous. • There are lots of pharmacovigilance training institute in Pune but then CRB Tech is the best among them. Clinical-research