Pharmacovigilance Career

Hello sir I am Suraj and I am here as I want to get information about Career Scope for Pharmacovigilance so will you please tell me about this??

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Pharmacovigilance is the science relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects, particularly long term and short term side effects of medicines.

Generally speaking, it is the science of collecting, monitoring, researching, assessing and evaluating information from healthcare providers and patients on the adverse effects of medications, biological, herbalism and traditional medicines with a view to:

-Identifying new information about hazards associated with medicines
-Preventing harm to the patients.

A Pharmacovigilance professional does the following:

-Track all adverse event reports received and completed;

-Review and assess all source documents, and compile data in an adverse event report;

-Data enter report into the safety database;

-Code adverse events in the safety database;

-Perform labeling assessment of adverse events, comparing adverse event to adverse events previously reported and contained in the product label;

-Release report to safety database


Pay-scale:

-Fresher: Rs 15,000-20,000

-After 5 years: Rs 50,000-60,000

-After 10 years: More than Rs 80,000-90,000

Growth prospect:

Individuals trained in Pharmacovigilance will find good job options in the following sectors:

-Pharmaceutical Companies (MNCs & Indian) & Biotech companies.

-Clinical Research Organizations.

-KPOs like Accenture & Quintiles.

-Regulatory Agencies like DCG (I) & CDSCO

-Pharmacovigilance units in Medical colleges & Hospitals

Besides this, students might land up in companies like:

Asian clinical trials serene, Bioserve, Clin invent, Clintec international, Clinigene, Dr Reddy’s lab, Elly Lilly, Glaxo smithkline, IGATE clinical research, Intass biopharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, Lambda therapeutic research, Lupin limited, Matrix laboratories ltd., Merck, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Pharmanet, Quintiles, Ranbaxy, Roche India, Sristek, Siro Clinpharma, Synchron, Sanofi Aventis, Torrent pharma, Vimta labs, Zydus, Reliance life science, Amed, Accutest, Actimus, Adroit insights, Alembic, Asian Clinical Trials