Also called: Pharmacovigilance Associate
Tracks and analyzes reports of side effects to keep medicines safe after they hit the market.
Reads incoming reports of patients who had reactions to a drug, codes the details into a global database, and flags patterns, like a rare liver problem, that might require a new label warning.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in pharmacy, nursing, or life science; PharmD for senior roles.
Ways in: 4-year college, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Biology, Pharmacy, Nursing, Public Health.
Growing about average. Steady growth in pharma and contract research companies.
High risk for 10 years. AI already reads side-effect reports and codes cases into safety databases, cutting entry-level intake jobs; signal judgment remains.
Classes: Biology, Chemistry, Statistics, Computer applications.
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