| Curricular Unit: | Code: | ||
| Pharmacoeconomics and Health Technology Assessment | 1069FATS | ||
| Year: | Level: | Course: | Credits: |
| 1 | Postgraduate | Regulatory Affairs of Medication and Health Products | 1 ects |
| Learning Period: | Language of Instruction: | Total Hours: | |
| Portuguese/English | 13 | ||
| Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit: | |||
| In module II - Pharmacoeconomics and Health Technology Assessment - of the Postgraduate Course in Regulatory Affairs of Medicines and Health Products, the competences to be acquired include: to know the circuit and the methodology of health technology assessment; to know and be able to interpret the main methodologies of health technology assessment. | |||
| Syllabus: | |||
| 1 - Fundamentals of pharmacoeconomics. Methodologies for Health Technology Assessment. 2 - Modelling in pharmacoeconomics. Approval, Formation and Annual Revision of the Price of a Medicine. 3 - Therapeutic value added and positioning of the medicine. Pharmacy and Therapeutics Commission. | |||
| Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives: | |||
| The postgraduate course in Regulatory Affairs in Medicines and Health Products aims to prepare highly qualified professionals in regulatory affairs related to the area of medicines, medical devices, cosmetic and body hygiene products and food supplements, to work in the different areas of regulatory affairs. The programmatic contents of module II aim at the acquisition of skills regarding the fundamentals and modelling in pharmacoeconomics and to know the main methodologies of Health technologies assessment. | |||
| Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation): | |||
| The teaching regime of the Postgraduate Course in Regulatory Affairs of Medicinal Products and Health Products is distance learning (online), through the CANVAS platform. The course will be assessed through attendance and participation during each session of the course and the presentation of a final paper/report on one of the topics taught during the course. The topic of the work will be selected by the student himself according to student`s professional interests. | |||
| Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes: | |||
| The evaluation in each module of the course will be carried out by the presence and interest/participation during each session. The final evaluation of the course through a final work/report will validate the scientific competencies and the systematisation of the knowledge acquired by the students. Additionally, the completion of this work / final report allows to deepen the knowledge in a more specific area of the course according to professional interests. | |||
| Reading: | |||
| BootmanJL, Townsend RJ, McGhanWF. Principles of Pharmacoeconomics. 3rdEd. Harvey Whitney Books, Cincinati, 2005; Drummond MF, SculpherMJ, Torrance GW, OBrienBJ, Stoddart GL. Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes. 3rdEd. Oxford University Press, New York, 2005; RascattK. Essentials of Pharmacoeconomics. 3rdEd. Wolters Kluwer Health, 2020; Arnold RJG. Pharmacoeconomics: From Theory to Practice. 2ndEd. CRC Press, 2020 | |||