Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Engaging patients in pharmaceutical research and development
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3699-23-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 06/03/2023

Date and time	27.03.2023, at: 09:00 - 15.05.2023, at: 16:00
Regular seats	18
Course fee	5,400.00 kr.
Lecturers	Anna Birna Almarsdóttir
ECTS credits	2.50

Contact person	Marianne W. Jørgensen E-mail address: marianne.joergensen@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD Students from NorDoc member universities. All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. This also applies to PhD students from NorDoc member universities. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. use knowledge about patient engagement in: drug development; drug formulation; and/or, in innovation of pharmaceuticals and devices 2. have insight into how patients can and are being engaged in pharmaceutical research and development 3. understand and identify the benefits of engaging patients in pharmaceutical research and innovation 4. integrate patient engagement into future pharmaceutical research, practice and innovation Content The pharmaceutical industry and regulatory agencies have increasingly shown commitment to engaging patients in all stages of pharmaceutical development. This course aims to prepare pharmaceutical scientists for a work environment that increasingly incorporates the patient perspective and experience data in all stages of the pharmaceutical value chain. It is a blended learning course (online and face to face) where the online component covers the following aspects: The patient perspective on medicines use and how this is often opposed to professionals’ perspectives. Models that provide a better understanding of all the aspects of the patient perspective on medicines use are introduced. This includes narratives by chronic patients telling about their personal experiences with medicines use. The various ways of evaluating the patient perspective on medicines use are introduced. Examples of how the patient perspective has been implemented in health policy, healthcare practice and pharmaceutical regulation are reviewed. Lastly, the online part of the course provides a brief introduction to participants on how to explore the patient perspective using qualitative methods. The face to face components of the course will start by introducing the online course (either online or hyflex). Upon completion of the online self-study component, the participants and faculty meet face to face for lectures and discussions on how the pharmaceutical industry and related partners are engaging patients in pharmaceutical innovation and how the participants envision working with patient engagement in their own field of expertise. The participants will then carry out an individual assignment where they develop the ideas generated about integration of patient engagement in their future work, and if relevant, in their thesis. The last meeting is a colloquium where the participants present their assignment and discuss with other particpants and course faculty, and after this is completed hand in a final version of their assignment for evaluation by the course faculty. Participants The course is targetted to PhD students within the pharmaceutical sciences who work with projects related to pharmaceutical research, development, and/or innovation, eg. within the fields of lead discovery, pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical technology, and drug delivery. These will be PhD students who aim for a career within the pharmaceutical industry or related arenas where pharmaceuticals are discovered and/or formulated. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: Pharmaceutical Sciences (Drug Research Academy) Language English Form Blended learning (online self-study, lectures with discussions, individual assignment, colloquium discussions of (including feedback to) assignments) Course director Anna Birna Almarsdóttir, Professor, Department of Pharmacy, aba@sund.ku.dk Lotte Stig Nørgaard, Assoc. Professor, Department of Pharmacy, lotte.norgaard@sund.ku.dk Teachers Sofia Kälvemark Sporrong, Assoc. Professor, Department of Pharmacy, sofia.sporrong@sund.ku.dk Lourdes Cantarero Arevalo, Assoc. Professor, Department of Pharmacy, lourdes.cantarero@sund.ku.dk Ramune Jacobsen, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy, ramune.jacobsen@sund.ku.dk N.N., anthropologist, LEO Pharma (to be confirmed) N.N., consultant to pharma industry on patient engagement (to be confirmed) N.N., faculty members at PharmaSchool within medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical technology, drug delivery, or vaccines Dates 27 March 2023 (half day), interim period used for self-study online, 28 April (half day) interim period used for individual assignment, 15 May (whole day final colloquium) Course location Online and at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Copenhagen Registration Please register before 6 March 2023 Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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