Pharmacology

Hi Sanket,
Minimum eligibility criteria for application to the course would be either of the following:
A postgraduate or graduate in Bioscience/Life Sciences (with any of the following subjects: Botany, Zoology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Genetics, Biotech) with at least 50% marks in aggregate
A postgraduate or graduate with Chemistry as a subject with at least 50% marks in aggregate
A postgraduate or graduate in Pharmacy or Pharmaceutical Sciences
A postgraduate or graduate in Medicine
A graduate or equivalent degree/diploma in Nursing
Selection Procedure:
To maintain a high academic standard, the Institute gives due importance to the quality of students enrolled. To ensure this, the selection of individual student will undergo the following procedure:
Written examination
Personal interview
Screening and selection of students based on merit

Hi Suresh,
There are good growth opportunities in pharmacovigilance sector. The pharmacovigilance 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
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 Reddys 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.
For more information, please refer to the following link:
https://www.shiksha.com/medicine-health-sciences/pharmacy/articles/a-career-in-pharmacovigilance-blogId-5635

Hi Suresh,
There are good growth opportunities in pharmacovigilance sector. The pharmacovigilance 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
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 Reddys 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.
For more information, please refer to the following link:
https://www.shiksha.com/medicine-health-sciences/pharmacy/articles/a-career-in-pharmacovigilance-blogId-5635

Pharmacovigilance, in layman's terms, is drug safety. It can be defined as the study and prevention of adverse effects caused by pharmaceutical products. Pharmacovigilance makes it possible to implement quality systems in all pharmaceutical companies that manufacture large amounts of medicine.
Job Prospects:
The starting salary offered to freshers is substantially a function of their educational background and vary year to year and across organizations and domains.
The typical work place hierarchy is as follows:
-The starting level is of a DSA (Drug Safety Associate). DSAs are generally involved in case creation, checking for MSI ( Minimum safety information a patient, a reporter, a suspect drug and an adverse event ), reconciliation and follow-up process, data entry of all information available in the document and medical coding.
-After attaining an experience of 2-3 years, the individual builds the required skill set and can further go to become a DSS (Drug Safety Scientist).
-Further after acquiring a good experience in this sector, an individual can move to writing for PSUR (Periodic Safety Update Report) and PADER (Periodic Adverse Drug Experience Reports) and can also become an Aggregate report scientist.
-An experience of 7-10 years in this field can fetch you the job of a Team-lead or manager.
-If you keep moving further, you can end up acquiring the position of a Director or Vice-President with 9-10 years of experience.
Growth prospect:
Individuals can find jobs in the following sector:
-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
For further information, kindly check this link:
https://www.shiksha.com/a-career-in-pharmacovigilance-article-5635-1