Pharmacovigilance is a great career option for life science and pharmacy graduates.

On securing a pharmacovigilance job, you will be dealing with reporting and analysis of side-effects of drugs to ensure the safety of drugs being launched in the market.

About Pharmacovigilance

Pharmacovigilance/Drug safety, is the developmental phase of a drug which involves collection, detection, assessment, monitoring, and prevention of adverse effects of a drug.

Pharmacovigilance determines the adverse events crossing the line of a drug’s efficacy. In simple words, it decides which side-effects of the drugs are worth the risk for patients while treating diseases. Pharmacovigilance Medical Writer

You as a medical writer, could play significant role in the space of pharmacovigilance. Honing good medical writing skills not only helps in writing pharmacovigilance documents but also plays an important role in the project management of drug safety studies.

Medical writers who are familiar with Pharmacovigilance (PV) documents along with multi-disciplinary team management skills, data analysis and ability to meet challenging deadlines have a great career path in the drug safety domain. You will be involved in the development of patient safety presentations, profiling of the drug’s benefits/risks and documentation of the specific company’s risk management assessments in a timely and efficient manner, which will then be submitted to regulatory bodies.

The ‘Scientific Writing’ module in ICME’s online medical writing training program helps you in drafting scientific documents. The ‘Clinical Research and Regularly’ module makes you familiar with clinical development and pharmacovigilance. The ‘Medico-Marketing’ module helps in crafting persuasive content for the post-marketing phase of drug development.