Day-to-Day Responsibilities
Receive and log adverse event reports from doctors, patients, hospitals and sales teams.
Check each report for completeness, such as patient details, the suspected medicine, the reaction and key dates.
Code the side effect using standard medical dictionaries so it can be compared with other reports.
Enter and process case data in the company's safety database, meeting regulatory timelines.
Assess how serious and how unexpected a reaction is, and flag urgent cases to senior reviewers.
Follow up with the person who reported the case to collect missing information.
Search scientific literature for published reports on the medicine and record relevant findings.
