PBF356 – Clinical Trials and Documentation of Drugs

Schedule, syllabus and examination date

Course content

The course comprises theory and practice of clinical drug trials, the significance of the results for the choice of drugs and requirements for clinical documentation. The course covers a presentation and study of trial phases, trial methodology, evaluation of results, statistical consideration, quality assurance, ethics and other topics. Furthermore, the students will work with scientific and regulatory demands to clinical documentation and use of clinical documentation to drugs in practice.

Learning outcome

After the course the students will have the necessary knowledge and understanding of how to plan, conduct and report clinical trials and to be able to critically perform quality assessment of trials. Furthermore, the student shall be capable of selecting drugs based on reported clinical drug trials.

Admission

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Prerequisites

Formal prerequisite knowledge

All courses of the first period or equivalent relevant courses.

Recommended previous knowledge

All previous courses

Teaching

Lectures: Lectures and seminars, Study groups: Study groups with cases, Labwork: None

Examination

Oral examination in addition to a written project.

Facts about this course

Credits
10
Teaching
Every spring
Examination
Every spring
Teaching language
Norwegian