ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine
Areas: Preventive Medicine and Public Health
Center Faculty of Optics and Optometry
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
1. Identify the different methods in pharmacovigilance (PV).
2. Recognise the diverse sources of data in pharmacovigilance
3. Identify the main biases in pharmacovigilance.
4. Critically read ocular pharmacovigilance studies.
1. Origin of pharmacovigilance. Objectives and functions.
2. Individual methods in pharmacovigilance:
a. Anecdotal reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs),
b. b. Voluntary reporting of adverse drug reactions,
c. Reporting of prescription-related events.
Epidemiological methods in pharmacovigilance.
a. Data sources for pharmacovigilance studies: advantages and limitations.
b. Epidemiological designs in pharmacovigilance.
c. Biases in pharmacovigilance epidemiological studies
4. Critical reading of ocular pharmacovigilance studies.
BASIC
Figueiras Guzmán A, Ferreira Herdeiro MT, Gestal Otero JJ. Farmacovigilancia. En: Piédrola Gil, et al. Medicina preventiva y salud pública. 12.a edición, 2015.
COMPLEMENTARY
Laporte, Joan Ramon, "Prinicipios de epidemiologia del medicamento", Barcelona Masson-Salvat 1993.
Strom BL, ed. Pharmacoepidemiology 4th ed. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2005.
Figueiras A, Caamaño F, Gestal Otero JJ. Metodología de los estudios de utilización de medicamentos en Atención Primaria. Gac Sanit. 2000; 14 (3): 7-19.
Hartzema AG; Porta MS, Wilson HF. Pharmacopeidemiology. An introdution. Harvey Whitney Books. 2nd Ed. Cincinnati 1991
Knowledge
- To acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for incorporation into specialised professional practice and research in the field of Optometry.
- To acquire in-depth knowledge of pharmacovigilance and clinical action criteria.
- Acquire knowledge from different perspectives of knowledge in Vision Sciences.
Competences
- Ability to transmit research results to specialised, academic and general audiences.
- Ability to make decisions based on scientific, technical, and clinical information.
- Ability to apply different perspectives of knowledge in Vision Sciences.
- Develop critical, self-critical, and decision-making skills.
- Capacity for reflection from different perspectives of knowledge.
- Implementation of pharmacovigilance knowledge and clinical action criteria in clinical practice.
- Apply the methodology and procedures of scientific research in Vision Sciences.
Skills
- Acquire the necessary skills for incorporation into research in the field of Optometry.
- Acquire skills from different perspectives of knowledge in Vision Sciences.
- Acquire the ability to use Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
- Participate in debates and discussions, lead and coordinate them and be able to summarise them and extract from them the most relevant conclusions accepted by the majority.
- Use the different techniques of oral and written presentations, presentations, panels, etc., to communicate their knowledge, proposals and positions.
The initial class will be voluntary and face-to-face according to the academic calendar. The rest of the classes will use different distance learning techniques (web-based materials, articles, videos). The Moodle platform will be used for this purpose. Discussion forums will be set up so that students can interact and discuss among themselves and/or with the teacher. Optionally, a face-to-face tutorial will be established to solve doubts in the middle of the term.
The tutorials may be face-to-face, by e-mail or by videoconference.
The exams, consisting of the critical reading of a scientific paper, may be taken in person or by videoconference, depending on the student's preference.
30% participation in discussion forums and in continuous work.
70% of the oral presentation of the individual critical reading work.
In the case of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the rules set out in the Regulations on the assessment of students' academic performance and the review of qualifications will apply.
Lectures: 9
Activities: Assignments: 6
Interactive: 6
Tutorials: 3
Follow matter, day by day and participate in the forums.
Adolfo Figueiras Guzman
- Department
- Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine
- Area
- Preventive Medicine and Public Health
- Phone
- 881812276
- adolfo.figueiras [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
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