India has become a major hub for clinical trials. Despite this, several problems related to availability of drugs, distribution, accessibility and consumption still remain at large.
Pharmacovigilance is the discipline which takes care of such aspects and is concerned with identifying, validating, quantifying and evaluating adverse reactions associated with the use of drugs thereby improving the safety of medicines in use.
Bio-Science, Pharma, Medical & Para Medical Graduates & Post Graduates can enter into these sector a career option. All major CRO, Bio-pharma organization, Medical Device companies, KPO, BPO and IT Life Science companies is on the move of hiring knowledgable anad certified pharmacovigilance candidates.
Now here, any aspirant who wants to join in this industry should focus in two basic issues . The first point is, developing a strong pharmacovigilance knowledge base and the second one is preparing him or herself for interview.
While making a choice of developing knowledge development, as a candidate, you need to do a certificate program in pharmacovigilance. There is no mandetory need of university approved certification or duration of program as a key factory for hiring terms & condition from leading organization, but all the hiring organization typically looks into the quality of knowledge base that a candidate have with them, so that they can use the knowledge to implement into the project management aspects directly.
So, aspirants should focus on individual goal about the learning process and content of the syllabus rather than large amount course fee, brand institutions, good infrastructure and campus etc. The chance of getting jobs after completion of the program is totally depends on the aspirants rather than the institute, institute can help the aspirants by providing best possible knowledge base and maximizing the interviewing opportunity, but the ultimate work is to perform well on the day of interview by the candidate, there is no shortcut.
Current trend is that, while selecting an institute for pharmacovigilance certification much importance are given on the content of the program than anything else. Following are some basic outline of any pharmacovigilance certification program which can help you to get jobs. It should include like, basic principles of pharmacovigilance and clinical research, regulatory affairs environment FDA, CDSCO, EMA, management of pharmacovigilance data, risk management in pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology, may more etc. The objective should be to develop candidates who are experts at monitoring the adverse effects of the drugs which have been released in the market. Their goal should be to establish safety of the drug and oversee the well-being of the consumers.
Pharmacovigilance is still in its infancy in India, therefore higher standards of pharmacovigilance are warranted to be at par with the rest of the world in terms of not only compliance to regulations but also to implement quality systems in all pharmaceutical companies especially the generic companies which manufacture bulk drugs that are marketed in India and the Western countries.
There is no shortage of job opportunities in this field as good pharmacovigilance practice makes for good business sense. Students of this field can get jobs in all leading CRO, Bio-Pharma organization, Medical Device companies, KPO, BPO and IT Life Science companies with attractive salaries with robust increments, world class learning and global exposure.
