Short Courses in Life Sciences, Medicine & Health
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More information about the Life Sciences, Medicine & Health discipline
Related fields in the discipline are life science, health science and medicine. Studies in life sciences encompasses all fields of science that involve the scientific study of living organisms such as plants, animals, and human beings. Medicine and biology are the major fields of study the area. As such, life sciences are closely linked with health science, which is a multidisciplinary field based on the natural science such as biology, chemistry and physics.
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Short Course in Pharmacovigilance Regulatory Processes
Objectives: To enable participants (specialists) to develop an understanding of the requirements of Pharmaceutical Industry of the operational aspects of pharmacovigilance as it relates to the preparation of documents legally required by regulatory bodies. Focus will be on the adverse event reporting process within Industry, placed within the context of regulatory requirements and best practice.
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Short Course in Basics in Statistics Applied to Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology
Objectives: To understand applications of probability in statistics; To understand how to organize and describe epidemiological data; To understand how to perform data estimations, comparisons and predictions; To understand how to estimate the sample size and power of epidemiology studies; To introduce the principles of multivariable comparisons.
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Short Course in Basics in Epidemiology Applied to Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology
Objectives: To understand the basic concepts and principles in epidemiology; To become familiar with the epidemiological tools that could be used in pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology; To understand the specificity of epidemiological tools applied to pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology.
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Short Course in Principles of Pharmacoeconomics and Valuation of Health States
Objectives: To gain insight into different preference valuation techniques and (pharmaco)economic evaluation methods. This module will address valuation of health states and pharmacoeconomic evaluation methods. Economic consideration play an important role in decision-making on medicines, e.g. for reimbursement purposes.
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Short Course in Key Roles and Stakeholders in Medicines Risk Communication: Duties and Challenges
This module will address in more depth the challenges (rationale , emotional and logistical) of Risk communication that have been raised in previous modules.
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Short Course in Drug Utilisation Studies: Introduction and Qualitative Methods
Objectives: To understand the need to design and to carry out qualitative drug utilisation research. To be able to critically appraise qualitative drug utilisation studies (DUS). To design, to implement and to discuss small-scale audits on the quality of medicines use in hospitals and in primary health care.
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Short Course in Clinical and Pharmacological Principles Applied to Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology
Objectives: To analyse and discuss the role and the impact of medicines in therapeutics, health services and society. To understand the pharmacological and clinical essential principles of prescribing. To understand the pharmacological, clinical and epidemiological principles underlying the effects (both beneficial and unwanted) of medicines in various populations.
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Short Course in Critical Appraisal of Clinical Trials: Evidence-based Medicine and Its Uncertainties
Objectives: To analyse and discuss strengths and limitations of randomised clinical trials and other epidemiological studies. To analyse and discuss strengths and limitations of evidence-based medicine. To undertake complete critical appraisals of different randomised clinical trials and meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials.
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Short Course in Identifying Susceptibility for Adverse Drug Reactions
Objectives: To understand effect modification. To understand the principles of genetic susceptibility for drug risks
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Short Course in Basics in Communication Applied to Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology
Objectives; To know the basic principles of communication and to gain an insight into the characteristics of effective communication. To face to the complexity communication on risk for health. To know the evolution of medicine risk communication.
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Short Course in Methods for Quantitative Benefit-risk Assessment of Medicines
Objectives: To learn about available methodologies for quantitative benefit/risk assessment, to gain insight in the strengths and weaknesses of these methodologies, and to apply these methodologies in practice. Decision making on medicines informed by quantitative benefit-risk assessment may differ depending on the perspective of the decision maker and the phase of drug development.
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Short Course in Introduction to Benefit-risk Assessment and Pharmacoeconomics Communication in Decision Making
Objectives: To gain insight in the process of decision-making on medicines by different stakeholders. Decision making on medicines informed by quantitative benefit-risk assessment and pharmacoeconomics may differ depending on the perspective of the decision maker and the phase of drug development. This module addresses the decision-making on medicines by different stakeholders.
