The Course in Pharmacoeconomics and personalized treatment prepares professionals in applying the most suitable cultural tools not to spend less, but rather to spend better.
The Post-Graduate Course, through a hands-on multidisciplinary approach, covers the essential aspects of precision and value-added medicine – risk-benefit and cost-effectiveness – within a context of pharmacotherapy resource management.
The Course is held online live by the Department of Medicine, in partnership with the Department of Economy and Business Sciences and the Department of Cardiothoracic-Vascular Sciences and Public Health of the University of Padua.
The course units of the Course in Pharmacoeconomics and personalized treatment provides a hands-on, multidisciplinary approach that covers the basic aspects of Precision and value-added Medicine:
- risk-benefit
- cost-effectiveness
An effective and safe prescription of medicines (appropriate prescription) is a pillar of personalized treatment. It deals with clinical and economic validation of pharmacogenetic tests as personalized treatment tool. Although costly, these tests help reduce treatment personalization times required by the trial-and-error approach, hospitalization and cost of emergency interventions. Even innovative/personalized treatment is costly, however they are usually more effective and have less side effects than standard care over the long term.
The faculty comprises pharmacologists, doctors, hospital and local pharmacists, pharmaeconomists, epidemiologists, healthcare economists who work in Universities, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, AIFA. Professors are involved in the two main training activities of the Course: Clinical pharmacology and Pharmacoeconomics.
The Course in Pharmacoeconomics and personalized treatment improves the skills of all pharmacy professionals in assessing the risk-benefit and cost-effectiveness of pharmacological treatment.
The course is addressed to students in biomedical or economic sciences, pharmacy professionals in different fields, and staff managers in hospitals or healthcare units.
The contents of the Course may be interesting for supra-enterprise institutions (i.e. Regions), which may promote the implementation of innovative treatment resource management solutions.
The Course in Pharmacoeconomics and Personalized Treatment includes an introduction and six sessions:
Introductory session
Contents (with short description)
Basics of clinical pharmacology
Polypharmacy, drug interactions, prescriptive appropriateness for classes of widely consumed drugs: glucororticoids, antibiotics; geriatric pharmacotherapy – the clinician’s perspective; pharmacogenetics
Gender medicine
Physiopathological bases, pharmacology, pharmacoepidemiology
Management and forecasting of resource consumption
The budget impact methodology; the clinical governance of medicines in the Veneto Region – from primary care to innovative medicines; evaluation of the sustainability of diagnostic and therapeutic pathways; case studies; real-world studies on patient reporting outcomes and strategies for patient engagement.
Pharmacoeconomics
Government of health spending and pharmaceutical spending: role of health economics and pharmacoeconomics; HTA and economic evaluation techniques of drugs: cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-utility analysis; economic evaluation in the process of reimbursement of drugs by the NHS
Nutraceuticals
Delivery systems to improve bioavailability; qualitative and regulatory aspects of the formulation; clinical trial
Equivalent medicines
Generics and biosimilars; regulatory evolution and pharmacoeconomic implications; pharmacokinetics of monoclonal antibodies
The general ranking of merit for the academic year 2024/25 will be published on the Italian page of this Course according to the timing provided in the Call.
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FAQ
Yes, preferential prerequisites include: doctorate in pharmaceutical, medical, economic, healthcare economic disciplines; professional experience in hospitals and healthcare units.
Yes, there will be one scholarship awarded by the Pharmacists Register of the Province of Vicenza, covering the entire registration fee.
Hands-on practice will include group activities.
Lessons, practice and seminars will be held online on Friday, once a month, from November 2024 to July 2025.
If necessary, the lessons will be moved to Saturday morning, to be agreed upon with the attendees.