Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance: A Trending Choice for Non-clinical Doctors

In recent times, the health care sector has also experienced a wide variety of changes. Earlier, professionals had limited options, either become a doctor or a scientist. Unlike those days, now things have endured radical changes, resulting in multiple opportunities leading to a bright future.

As the number of aspirants for residency programs in the United States increases, most of them do not get the necessary training to become licensed physicians. Not all medical graduates go on to work in clinical settings as doctors. Whatever the reason is for not finishing a residency, don’t let it restrain from utilizing your medical degree to have a lucrative and fulfilling career. 

Non-clinical Doctors also have multiple options to build their careers, out of which one of the most trending choices is Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance.

In the pharmaceutical industry, Physicians who are not board-certified or licensed can find jobs in basic science research, clinical trials, product development, marketing, finance, and administration. Pharmaceutical liaison and Pharmaceutical sales positions generally do not require an MD, one can easily find jobs in these areas to enlighten their career. 

Let’s rundown of some great jobs for Non-clinical Doctors in Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance:

Pharmacovigilance provides bright career possibilities for all healthcare professionals in terms of salary and career growth. Today, a large number of healthcare organizations have multiple new career growth in Pharmacovigilance sector like:

• Drug Safety Associate 
• Pharmacovigilance Associate
• Case Processing Expert
• Drug Safety Scientist
• Safety Associate
• Pharmacovigilance Scientist

Drug safety certified candidates find jobs in life sciences, pharma, biotechnology industries. The core responsibility of these professionals is to monitor the patients and identify the adverse effects of medicines, provide demonstrations on safety regulations, and perform auditing duties and report these outcomes for review and medicine modification. They are required to modify and create medical reports to send to the Food and Drug Administration. They need to track regular drug safety developments and manage these processes.

Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance is an evergreen field in the pharmaceutical industry that will continue to advance as a primary industry. Sollers’s professional competency-based certification program in Pharmacovigilance offers the student a comprehensive overview of the concepts, broadens their expertise and upskill themselves further in this sector.