International Perception of Competence, Education, and Training Needs Among Biomedical Professionals Involved in Medicines Development.

ABSTRACT: The development of new medicines today, requires a multi-professional workforce, both in industry and the clinical research arena. Pharmaceutical physicians (PPs) and medicines development scientists (MDS) need a certain level of competence, achieved through on-the-job experience, with a postgraduate education foundation and continuous professional development programs. In order to assess the self-perception of competence, education and training needs, an on-line questionnaire based on the seven domains of competence, developed by IFAPP-PharmaTrain, was prepared and distributed among PPs and MDS members of IFAPP's affiliated professional associations in countries with facilities for postgraduate education. The data collection was run over a fixed period of three months in Japan, Italy, Bra

SUBMITTER: Imamura K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6411843 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature