SMRM18001U Global Pharmaceutical Policy – Rationales and Stakeholders

Volume 2024/2025
Education

This course is a compulsory course for students at Copenhagen University's Master of Medicines Regulatory Affairs (MRA).

 

See homepage for course dates on the webpage for  Master of Medicines Regulatory Affairs


This course is compulsory at both the 2016-curriculum and the 2018-curriculum.

The course is open to single course students and students from other master's programmes.

Content

This course covers the rationales for the highly detailed legislation and guidelines regulating medicines, including their consequences. The global diversity when it comes to regulations of medicines will be reviewed in a context influenced by e.g. regulatory complexity, safety in relation to efficacy, cultures, values and economy. Regulations and different rationales behind them are elucidated from the perspectives of different stakeholders, such as patients, governments and the pharmaceutical industry.

Participants will learn to be aware and critical of stakeholders and their rationales for different requirements. This contextual thinking provides students with the means to include contextual considerations into regulatory strategies.

Teaching includes self-study, lectures and group discussions. Participants are trained individually and in groups to critically reflect on global pharmaceutical legislation and guidelines, stakeholders and their rationales for different requirements, which are critical to consider from early on during the development of medicines. Participants will work individually on an essay motivated by personal interests. The essay can for example focus on a specific therapeutic area and/or relevant region. 

Learning Outcome

After completion of the course the student will be able to:

Knowledge

  • Explain and discuss the pharmaceutical legislation and guideline frames and the need for pharmaceutical legislation and guidelines
  • Discuss rationales for and consequences of regulations in different jurisdictions around the world
  • Discuss the perspectives and rationales of important stakeholders involved in pharmaceutical legislation and guidelines

 

Skills

  • Analyze and discuss the background for and use of different parts of the regulation of medicines
  • Discuss the societal aspects of pharmaceutical legislation from a global perspective

 

Competencies

  • Critically reflect upon global medicines legislation and guidelines and initiate, apply, challenge and negotiate a message through in various contexts
Literature

Abbott FM, Dukes G. Global Pharmaceutical Policy. Edward Elgar Pubishing Ltd. 2011 or later

A selection of book chapters, scientific papers and review papers.

A complete list of reading material will be distributed electronically before the course. In total corresponding to approximately 400 pages of self-study.

See admission requirements at the programme website: https:/​/​mra.ku.dk/​admission/​
Teaching includes self-study, lectures and group discussions.
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Lectures
  • 24
  • Preparation
  • 40
  • Seminar
  • 8
  • Exam
  • 40
  • Total
  • 112
Oral
Collective
Credit
4 ECTS
Type of assessment
Written assignment
Type of assessment details
Written assignment/essay
Aid
All aids allowed

The use AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT or any similar softwares, is not allowed during exams.

Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
No external censorship
Exam period

Exam schedule is published on mra.ku.dk

Re-exam

The exam form for the reexam is the same as the ordinary exam. See dates in the exam schedule on mra.ku.dk

Criteria for exam assesment

To achieve the maximum grade of 12, the student should be able to:

Knowledge

  • Explain and discuss the pharmaceutical legislation and guideline frames and the need for pharmaceutical legislation and guidelines
  • Discuss rationales for and consequences of regulations in different jurisdictions around the world
  • Discuss the perspectives and rationales of important stakeholders involved in pharmaceutical legislation and guidelines

 

Skills

  • Analyze and discuss the background for and use of different parts of the regulation of medicines
  • Discuss the societal aspects of pharmaceutical legislation from a global perspective

 

Competencies

  • Critically reflect upon global medicines legislation and guidelines