title: Developing a Crowdsourcing Approach and Tool for Pharmacovigilance Education Material Delivery.
abstract: The number of pharmacovigilance professionals worldwide is increasing with a high staff turnover. There is a constant stream of new colleagues with an interest or need to learn about the discipline. Consequently, there is an increasing need for training in pharmacovigilance. An important step towards this has been made through developing and publishing the World Health Organization (WHO)-International Society of Pharmacovigilance (ISoP) Pharmacovigilance Curriculum. Using the Pharmacovigilance Curriculum effectively, it should be supplemented by providing comprehensive training material from various sources, and making the Pharmacovigilance Curriculum attractive and a high-utility product. We describe a pilot of the development and initial evaluation of a crowdsourcing tool for the provision of pharmacovigilance education material. Pharmacovigilance experts shared links to their material to sections of relevance in the hierarchy and a small group of organisations conducted an initial testing. In this pilot, we have shown the usability of such a web-based tool. The strengths of this approach include the potential for a routine 'democratic' approach to sharing educational material to a wider community and an openness for access.
authors.affiliation: Pfizer Ltd, Walton Oaks, Dorking Road, Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, KT20 7NS, UK. andrew.bate@pfizer.com.|New York University, New York, NY, USA. andrew.bate@pfizer.com.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-3151-3653
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bate
authors.affiliation: WHO Expert Advisory Panel of Medicines Safety, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Jürgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Beckmann
authors.affiliation: Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana.|World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Advocacy and Training in Pharmacovigilance, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dodoo
authors.affiliation: Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre Lareb, World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Pharmacovigilance in Education and Patient Reporting, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Härmark
authors.affiliation: Asian Institute of Management, Makati, Manila, Philippines.
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hartigan-Go
authors.affiliation: Uppsala Monitoring Centre, Uppsala, Sweden.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hegerius
authors.affiliation: Uppsala Monitoring Centre, Uppsala, Sweden.
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lindquist
authors.affiliation: Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre Lareb, World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Pharmacovigilance in Education and Patient Reporting, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands.|PharmacoTherapy, -Epidemiology and -Economics, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Eugène
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: van Puijenbroek
authors.affiliation: Hospital of Pisa, Tuscan Regional Centre of Pharmacovigilance, Pisa, Italy.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tuccori
authors.affiliation: International Society of Pharmacovigilance, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hagemann
mesh_terms: D022126:Access to Information; D063045:Crowdsourcing / Q000379:methods*; D003479:Curriculum; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D060735:Pharmacovigilance; D010865:Pilot Projects; D014944:World Health Organization