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| Course
Title |
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International pharmacovigilance training course |
| Institution |
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Uppsala: The Uppsala Monitoring Centre |
| Country |
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Sweden |
| Type |
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Certificate / Short Course (up to 3 months) |
| Topics |
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Management: Essential Drugs and Medicine |
| Language |
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English |
| Degree,
Credits |
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| Location |
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the Uppsala Monitoring Centre,
Uppsala, Sweden. |
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Objectives/
Content |
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The aim of this training
course is primarily to support the development of programmes
for spontaneous adverse reaction (ADR) reporting and to
give an introduction to other methodologies.
Module I:
- Introduction to ADRs
- Spontaneous adverse reaction reporting
Module II
- Introduction to pharmacoepide
- Effective communications in pharmacovigilance
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| Next
Beginning |
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2 - 13 May 2011 |
| Appl.
Deadline |
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28 January 2011 |
| Duration |
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2 weeks |
No.
of
Participants |
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40 |
Participants'
Profile |
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Health care professionals, e.g.
physicians, pharmacists, nurses, who have recently become
engaged or soon will become engaged in the practical operation
of pharmacovigilance
programmes in a hospital, regulatory, university or industry
setting. |
| Teaching
staff |
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Members of the staff of the
Uppsala Monitoring Centre, the Swedish National Adverse
Reaction
Monitoring Centre and other international pharmacovigilance
experts will function as lecturers, instructors and discussion
leaders throughout the course. |
| Methods |
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Theoretical parts include lectures,
group discussions and poster presentations; practical sessions
include recording of case information and computerised retrieval
of information from the database of the WHO Drug Monitoring
Programme. |
| Cooperation |
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WHO Collaborating Centre for
International Drug Monitoring |
| Coordinator |
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Anna Hegerius
Email: anna.hegerius@who-umc.org |
| Course
fee |
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Module I 2-10 May 21,000
SEK
Module II 11-13 May 9,000 SEK
The course fee includes VAT, accommodation for the period
of the course (1-14 May), breakfast,
lunches, beverages and snacks during breaks, professional
lecturers and documentation.
Accommodation costs accounts for around a third of the
course fee. Airfare, per diem and health insurance are
the responsibility of each participant or sponsoring organization.
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| Scholarship |
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Regrettably no fellowships are
available for the 2011 course and the UMC is not able to
provide
funding or waive the course fee for any participant. Regional
Offices of WHO will be advised of this course and may be
helpful in financially supporting qualified individuals. |
For
further
information |
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Ms Britt Gustavsson-McCurdy,
Box 1051
S-753 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Tel: +46 (0)18 65 60 60
Fax: +46 (0)18 65 60 88
Email: Britt.Gustavsson-McCurdy@who-umc.org
Internet: http://www.who-umc.org/DynPage.aspx?id=13170&mn=1518
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| Last
update |
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04/01/2011 mas |
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