Educating Healthcare Professionals in Pharmacovigilance: Global Trends and Korea’s Status
10.17496/kmer.2020.22.1.32
- Author:
So-Hee PARK
1
;
Kyu Hyuck CHUNG
;
Byung-Joo PARK
;
Dong Yoon KANG
;
Ju-Young SHIN
Author Information
1. School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea
- Publication Type:Review Article
- From:
Korean Medical Education Review
2020;22(1):32-45
- CountryRepublic of Korea
-
Abstract:
This narrative review introduces global trends in pharmacovigilance (PV) education for healthcare professionals and the status of PV education in Korea. Proactive participation of healthcare professionals, including physicians, pharmacists, and nurses in reporting suspected adverse events is the main driving force for effective operation of the spontaneous adverse event reporting system database, which in turn facilitates early safety signal detection of otherwise unknown suspected adverse events. The World Health Organization recognizes PV education curriculum as a key aspect in promoting awareness of PV and adverse event reporting among healthcare professionals, and multiple studies have demonstrated that PV educational interventions for healthcare professionals have increased overall adverse event reporting. Considering the global trends in PV education, the curriculum in Korean universities still has room for improvement in promoting PV obligation among future healthcare professionals. Further research is needed to develop PV education curriculum. We suggest a three-step project for innovating PV education in Korea to meet the global PV educational standards: a survey to gauge current PV competencies among healthcare professionals, reform of current PV academic curriculum, and evaluation and fine-tuning of the reformed curriculum.
