Pharmacy (Aug 2021)

Teaching Pharmacovigilance to Healthcare Students: Identifying Gaps and Opportunities for Improvement

  • Ana Seselja Perisin,
  • Josipa Bukic,
  • Doris Rusic,
  • Dario Leskur,
  • Josko Bozic,
  • Ante Mihanovic,
  • Marino Vilovic,
  • Tin Cohadzic,
  • Darko Modun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy9030147
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 3
p. 147

Abstract

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The literature indicates that the limited pharmacovigilance knowledge demonstrated by healthcare professionals is the main reason for the underreporting of adverse drug reactions. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to investigate pharmacy, dental and medical students’ knowledge and attitudes to pharmacovigilance and pharmacovigilance education. The cross-sectional questionnaire study was conducted at the University of Split School of Medicine in November 2020. In total, 350 students participated in the study. The results have shown that pharmacy students showed a significantly higher knowledge score compared to dental and medical students (P P P < 0.001). The results showed that most students felt that pharmacovigilance was not adequately covered in curricula; therefore, there is a great need to increase the knowledge and awareness of pharmacovigilance among students aspiring to become future healthcare professionals, and improve their reporting practice in clinical future.

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