Professional Expert Course in Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance.
- Madrid, Spain
- Barcelona, Spain
Course
DURATION
6 months
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
TUITION FEES
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Key Summary
About: The course aims to teach pharmacovigilance through methods ensuring direct contact between students and industry professionals. Pharmacovigilance is the science that collects, monitors, investigates, and evaluates information on the effects of drugs, biological products, medicinal plants, and traditional medicines to identify new adverse reactions and prevent harm to patients. The field includes signal detection, risk management, safety monitoring, and regulatory reporting to support patient safety and product surveillance globally.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue roles across drug safety and regulatory sectors. Potential roles include pharmacovigilance officer, drug safety associate, clinical safety specialist, regulatory affairs advisor, safety scientist, pharmacovigilance consultant.
The objective of the Online Professional Expert Course in Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance is to provide students with a complete, in-depth and practical vision of the technical aspects related to the safety of drugs authorized and marketed at national and international level.
The methodology used, always aimed at ensuring direct contact between students and professionals and companies in the sector, translates into a flow of experience and practical knowledge for direct application in the student's professional development and integration into the world of work .
Pharmacovigilance is the science that seeks to collect, monitor, investigate and evaluate information on the effects of drugs, biological products, medicinal plants and traditional medicines, with the aim of identifying information on new adverse reactions and preventing harm to patients.
The field of Pharmacovigilance has been developed with the aim of monitoring medicines, contributing to their safe and rational use through the permanent evaluation of their risks.
- Introduction to pharmacovigilance
- Safety assessment of an investigational product
- Compassionate uses, named patient use and expanded access programs.
- Continuous evaluation of the safety of authorised medicines
- Pharmacovigilance agreements
- Quality management in pharmacovigilance
- Pharmacovigilance inspections and audits
- Security management on other legal bases
The Online Professional Expert Course in Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance provides students with theoretical and practical specialization in the area of Pharmacovigilance.
This specialization allows students to develop a professional career in medical, pharmacovigilance and registration departments of pharmaceutical companies both nationally and internationally .