Chinese Journal of Pharmacovigilance ›› 2012, Vol. 9 ›› Issue (10): 598-600.

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Consideration on Pharmacovigilance Curriculum in Medical and Pharmaceutical Colleges

YE Xiao-fei, XU Jin-fang, GUO Xiao-jing, HE Jia*   

  1. Department of Health Statistics, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
  • Received:2012-07-18 Online:2012-10-10 Published:2015-08-07

Abstract: Pharmacovigilance has extended from adverse drug reaction to the lifecycle of product. Practitioners in medicine are not familiar with pharmacovigilance in China now. Medical and pharmaceutical colleges, as the institute for training professionals, have the advantage to set up the curriculum of pharmacovigilance, teach knowledge relevant to pharmacovigilance, and promote the development of pharmacovigilance in China. In this article, we analyzed the necessity of setting this curriculum, difficulties and countermeasures, and other issues in the process. In the end, we suggest relevant colleges set the pharmacovigilance curriculum in the form of elective courses.

Key words: pharmacovigilance, adverse drug reaction, curriculum