| A medical Affairs professional must understand that | | | | adverse effects of medicines. Consequently it is a |
| the end goal is to focus on the patient. Science and | | | | very important role which has the potential to directly |
| technology can be used in numerous ways to helps | | | | change patients lives and experiences. |
| the lives of patients and discover new ways of | | | | Pharmacovigilance specialists take information from |
| organising medical business. | | | | healthcare providers and patients about medication |
| Regulatory Affairs | | | | and they point out information which can prevent |
| Regulatory Affair professionals must be highly | | | | dangerous situations for patients. |
| focused and be passionate about the safety and | | | | Validation |
| efficacy of products in the pharmaceutical and | | | | A validation professional is mainly involved with audit, |
| medical industries. They must also have a vast | | | | planning compliance, and analysis. This is a very |
| knowledge of legal, scientific and business issues in | | | | technical position which requires good leadership, |
| order to carry out their job properly. They need to | | | | communication and problem solving skills as well as |
| make sure that products are produced to legal and | | | | good laboratory and manufacturing practices. |
| safety standards and guidelines. | | | | Life Scientist |
| Regularity affairs professionals play a major role in | | | | The role of a Life Scientist mainly consists of carrying |
| communication between their organisation and various | | | | out research which results in gaining a better scientific |
| regulatory authorities. | | | | understanding of things. Anyone wishing to pursue a |
| Some of the projects and assignments they might | | | | career in the Life Sciences must be comfortable with |
| be involved in on a daily basis include researching | | | | planning, designing, conducting and analysing |
| international legislation, collecting information about | | | | experiments and many different forms of research. |
| products, writing product labels and coming up with | | | | There are vast range of subjects which fall under the |
| arguments for new product licences. | | | | Life Sciences category such as Microbiology, plant |
| PVG | | | | studies, physiology, pharmacology, genomics and |
| Pharmacovigilance specialists make up a chain of | | | | biotechnology. |
| knowledgeable and skilled drug safety professionals. | | | | Some of the jobs that a Life Scientist would be |
| They also give support in many functional tasks such | | | | involved with range from showing work and findings, |
| as safety training, adverse reactions, safety trend | | | | taking part in field work, coming up with new ideas |
| analysis and maintaining global safety databases. | | | | for experiments and distributing the results across |
| Pharmacological science can be explained as the | | | | the Scientific field. |
| assessment, understanding and prevention of | | | | |