Vaccine safety and vigilance, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacovigilance
| Title | Ασφάλεια και επαγρύπνηση εμβολίων, φαρμακοεπιδημιολογία, φαρμακοεπαγρύπνηση / Vaccine safety and vigilance, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacovigilance |
| Code | ΤΙΜΕΛΝΒ3 |
| Faculty | Health Sciences |
| School | Medicine |
| Cycle / Level | 2nd / Postgraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Coordinator | Georgios Papazisis |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600022195 |
Programme of Study: DPMS "EMVOLIA KAI LOIMŌDĪ NOSĪMATA" (2022-sīmera)
Registered students: 20
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Compulsory Course | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Academic Year | 2025 – 2026 |
| Class Period | Spring |
| Faculty Instructors | |
| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Total Hours | 39 |
| Class ID | 600290163
|
Course Type 2021
General Foundation
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
- Distance learning
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600290163
- At the Website of the School:
Language of Instruction
- Greek (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the concept of pharmacovigilance and its basic principles. Specifically, issues related to the safety of traditional chemical drugs, biological drugs, and vaccines.
- Understand the process of spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reactions.
- Successfully complete the Yellow Card reporting for drugs.
- Conduct the process of causality assessment of adverse drug reactions using the WHO methodology.
- Understand the benefit/risk ratio in the use of drugs and vaccines.
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Generate new research ideas
Course Content (Syllabus)
- Basic principles of pharmacovigilance
- Safety of chemical drugs
- Safety of biological drugs
- Safety of vaccines
- Safety of COVID-19 vaccines
- Placebo effect
- Disproportionality analysis
- The Yellow Card for drugs
- Process of assessing causality of adverse drug reactions
Educational Material Types
- Notes
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
- Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 60 | ||||
| Reading Assigment | 30 | ||||
| Project | |||||
| Written assigments | 15 | ||||
| Exams | 30 | ||||
| Total | 135 |
Student Assessment
Student Assessment methods
- Written Exam with Multiple Choice Questions (Formative, Summative)
- Written Exam with Short Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
- Oral Exams (Formative, Summative)
Last Update
27-02-2024
