In this article you will find 15 Pharmacovigilance Course and Certifications for freshers. Do you really need to do any course in Pharmacovigilance? The answer is both Yes and No. You need to read this to understand it. In India, there are thousands of Pharmacy colleges and every year, almost 25 to 30 thousand student are graduated in Pharmacy. Now are Pharmaceutical job markets expanding equivalently to accommodate these freshers, the answer is no. Therefore there is huge competition in job market. Just for one vacancy posted, there are 100s of applicant. As a fresher it becomes difficult to compete without any knowledge of Pharmacovigilance. You need to have some skill to overshadow other candidate.
People who are working in marketing and sales want to move out because of huge sales targets. Similarly there will be others who are not so happy working in production or QC department of Pharma companies. So to develop skills and gain knowledge Pharmacovigilance Course and Certifications helps in developing a new skill. I do not recommend to do costly courses but courses at cheap rates can be considered. These courses should not be done just for the sake of doing. Even if you are doing a free course from youtube, you need to do it for gaining knowledge. Make sure that at the end of course you will learn about Pharmacovigilance, enough to crack an interview. The difference between a completely fresh Bpharm and you will be the knowledge in PV and this will increase the chances of selection. One tip is that try in Companies like TCS, Cognizant, Parexel etc because these companies hire in bulk and here the chances of selection will be higher. It will be good way to start your career.
Here is a list of Pharmacovigilance courses and Certification you can consider as a fresher to this field.
In market, there are many courses on Pharmacovigilance. I am trying to cover the courses available in market, but it is upto your budget that which course you are interested in.
- Certificate courses on Udemy. There are many courses in Pharmacovigilance available on Udemy. You can chose as per your requirement. https://www.udemy.com/course/certificate-course-in-pharmacovigilance
- Vigiserve – https://www.vigiservefoundation.org/courses/ccp/
- IGMPI Certified Pharmacovigilance Associate course – https://igmpi.ac.in/prospectus/certified-pharmacovigilance-associate
- UMC Pharmacovigilance course – https://who-umc.org/education-and-training/self-paced-online-courses/
- Certification in Pharmacovigilance in Public Health Programmes & Regulatory Services – https://www.astronecollege.com/course/certification-in-pharmacovigilance-in-public-health-programmes-and-regulatory-services
- Pharmacovigilance Course Online https://www.gihsonline.com/pharmacovigilance-medicalscientific-writing/ -22000 fees
- Clinimind courses – https://cliniminds.com/pharmacovigilance-courses-ca2/post-graduate-diploma-in-clinical-research-pharmacovigilance-c1
- Advanced Program in Pharmacovigilance – Online Certification – https://stores.biotecnika.org/products/advanced-program-in-pharmacovigilance-online-certification?srsltid=AfmBOooMpUi0dhxUUNIn8EDCAzmjskITKXcsddGhnFrrftnyOGlnr3hQ
- Pharmacovigilance Certification – https://app.ccrps.org/courses/pharmacovigilance-certification
- Introduction to Pharmacovigilance by Pharmuni – https://pharmuni.com/courses/9/introduction-to-pharmacovigilance
- Clinosoft – http://clinosoftresearch.com/course.html#
- Shiksha Pharmacovigilance certificate course free- https://www.shiksha.com/online-courses/pharmacovigilance-training-course-pharl2
- Advanced Certified Program In Pharmacovigilance – https://gratisol.com/pharmacovigilance-training/
- Certificate Course in Pharmacovigilance and Medical Writing – https://www.gsp.gtu.ac.in/certificate-course-in-pharmacovigilance-and-medical-writing/
- BCRI – https://www.bcri.in/pharmacovigilance-training/
Certifications are important for some Pharmacovigilance jobs as company don’t want to give associates basic Pharmacovigilance trainings. Otherwise they have to teach freshers what is Pharmacovigilance which is quite time consuming in the initial stage of career.
This is high time that syllabus should include practical knowledge of industry specific requirements. A student when come out of college, should know what is regulatory affair, what is the drug approval process in India as well in other countries. They should know how Pharmacovigilance work. In college should know all the career path they want to choose and they can select an optional subject in their final year. If any government personnel is reading this blog I highly urge you to work on it and it will definitely help Indian student not only in India but across the globe.
In most of the companies, people are working for international markets, so along with Indian regulations, they should also have basic knowledge of regulation at least of developed countries.
Pharmacovigilance is a vast subject but for job only basic information is necessary. Twoo weeks to two months are enough for these courses. Don’t go for Masters or 1 year 2 year courses atleast in India.