UMC provides online training as well as distance courses through Uppsala University. Our platform is open and free to anyone who wishes to learn, from anywhere in the world.
Uppsala Monitoring Centre provides pharmacovigilance and health professionals with a range of distance learning options to further their education in medicines safety. These include free e-learning courses on different aspects of drug safety, distance courses in collaboration with Uppsala University, and an extensive video library on YouTube.
UMC’s free online courses cover basic pharmacovigilance, signal detection and causality assessment, and statistical reasoning.
Uppsala University offers two distance learning courses in pharmacovigilance each semester, in collaboration with UMC.
Drug safety and pharmacovigilance
Preclinical safety assessment and pharmacovigilance
On our YouTube channel we have uploaded around 200 lectures and seminars, grouped into playlists according to topic. Explore our playlists using the links below.
Visit UMC on YouTube Practical Pharmacovigilance
General Pharmacovigilance Pharmacoepidemiology
‘A very good overview, directly PV related. It is hard to find other resources/courses as easily accessible as this one.’
‘It was a very good intro to signal detection laid out in very basic terms.’
‘The course helped me update my knowledge and get more materials for teaching others.’
‘I had worked with those issues even before the course. But to be frank, this added a lot.’
‘Wonderful course. The speakers were excellent and obviously very knowledgeable.’