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Duration & Mode of Delivery : 2-Year Full-Time (including foundation year by ICRI)

Eligibility:

Minimum eligibility criteria for application to the course would be either of the following:

• A postgraduate or graduate in Bioscience/Life Sciences (with any of the following subjects: Botany, Zoology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Genetics, Biotech) with at least 50% marks in aggregate
• A postgraduate or graduate with Chemistry as a subject with at least 50% marks in aggregate
• A postgraduate or graduate in Pharmacy or Pharmaceutical Sciences
• A postgraduate or graduate in Medicine
• A graduate or equivalent degree/diploma in Nursing

Selection Procedure:

To maintain high academic standard, the Institute gives due importance to the quality of students enrolled. To ensure this, the selection of individual student will undergo the following procedure:

• Written examination
• Personal interview
• Screening and selection of students based on merit

Great Careers! Great Salary!

Pharmacovigilance and Data Management off late has emerged as an excellent career choice for candidates looking for a global career related to Drug Safety and Clinical Research Information Technology. Almost every single major IT solutions provider company is outsourcing Clinical Data Management and looking aggressively for trained professionals. These careers offer great potential for growth, international exposure and excellent salary packages.

Already an amazing number of ICRIans have taken up jobs in this booking career avenue. Here is a partial list of recent placements in Pharmacovigilance & Data Management

Suitability:

The program is suitable for graduates wishing to pursue a career in pharmacovigilance. You are likely to have a degree in one of the following disciplines: a biological science, medicine, medicinal chemistry, dentistry, nursing, pharmacology, pharmacy, physiology or toxicology.

Takes you on to a career in pharmacovigilance or medical information management within the pharmaceutical industry. There are also openings within governmental agencies such as the MHRA, the clinical research networks or the NHS. Other possibilities include professional consultancy roles, medical writing opportunities or specialist analyst positions within city companies.

You will be taught by leading academics and researchers and guest lecturers from industry.

Course description:

Pharmacovigilance is the discipline of collecting, monitoring, researching, assessing and evaluating information from healthcare providers and patients on the adverse effects of medicines, with a view to preventing harm to patients.

Pharmacovigilance plays a vital role within the clinical trials process, helping to ensure the development of safe drugs that meet required European and International regulations. It can also significantly reduce the time it takes for drugs to reach the market and reduce drug recalls which are a substantial financial burden to pharmaceutical companies.

The increasing volume of data produced during clinical trials has produced a need for specialised professionals who can effectively manage, analyse and interpret pharmacovigilance data with a view to advising healthcare professionals on the safe and effective use of medicines in practice.

Our unique Pharmacovigilance Data Management MSc will provide an understanding of the detection and assessment of adverse effects of medicines (both long and short term), with an emphasis on the data management requirements involved in clinical trials, and the skills and capacity to identify, store, extract and analyse large volumes of clinical data in a secure manner.

Our Pharmacovigilance Data Management MSc is part of the Clinical Research Programme and is divided into three parts:

1. a formal taught component comprising eight modules
2. a group project
3. an individual research project.

Modules:

• Introduction to Clinical Research
• General Pharmacology
• Pharmacy
• Autonomic Nervous System
• Systematic Pharmacology
• Respiratory System
• Autacoids
• Renal System
• Cardiovascular System
• Gastrointestinal System
• Preclinical Evaluation of drugs
• Indian regulatory framework
• Translation of New Medicinal Products into the Clinic
• Research Design and Methodology
• Statistical Analysis and Interpretation
• Clinical Trial Practice
• Business Principles
• Information Warehousing
• Data Systems
• Regulatory Affairs

Group project:

This follows the taught modules. Students will work in small teams on a project requiring the use of all knowledge and skills gained from the taught modules.

Research project:

A critical part of the course is the four-month individual research project, enabling you to apply the theory, processes, methods, skills and tools gained on the taught programme.

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