… the pharmacovigilance training course. 🫣
The year is drawing to a close and the infamous refresher training course on drug safety is coming up again. 💊
Although the eyes of new employees often light up like those of a child under the Christmas tree, by the second refresher training course at the latest, many PV trainers feel like the Christmas cake that has already made the rounds 10 times at Secret Santa.
Nobody knows this better than our PV training maestra Tina Kreiner, who has been preparing and delivering internal and external PV training courses for years.
So how do you make a recurring training course interesting, especially when you can hardly change the content? Tina’s tips:
💡 Brevity is the spice of life – Instead of long training sessions, short but regular learning modules are often more useful, e.g. short explanatory videos or concise presentations.
🚀 Storytelling – Use practical, short (anonymised) examples from everyday life that show employees the relevance of their own job to the safety of a medicinal product.
✅ Visual aids such as images, checklists or flowcharts instead of long texts.
💬 Short feedback round at the end of the training for sharing experiences and open questions
🎁 Gifts – rewards such as small awards or points for top performers in the PV quiz can increase motivation without costing a lot of time.
And if you still don’t want to hold and organise your PV training course yourself, Tina and our other trainers are here to help. We tailor a suitable PV (refresher) training course for every company and can also present it in person on request – to convince even the last PV fan 😉
Personalised training for PV topics is our thing – just write to us at contact@drehm.at to tell us which training you need for your team and we’ll find a solution together!