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Interview. Investigate. Identify. Report. You are not given a case. You are given a patient who has noticed something, and everything else you must go and find. Nothing is volunteered that you did not ask for.
Run jointly by Alizon and Mar Dioscorus College of Pharmacy, this workshop is free and open to any pharmacy student, pharmacist or clinician who wants to practise a real pharmacovigilance investigation. Sign in below with your name, roll number and phone — no account to create and nothing to pay — then work a case and download your own report. Nothing you do inside the workshop is submitted anywhere unless you are a signed-in Alizon student.
Tell us who you are, and the workshop opens. Seven patients, seven different kinds of difficulty — each with a complete hidden record you will not see until the debrief.
| Competency | Marks |
|---|---|
| Patient interviewing — question quality, no leading, no fishing | 10 |
| Relevant questioning — breadth of the history taken | 10 |
| Case completeness — the critical checklist actually established | 12 |
| Timeline construction | 10 |
| ADR identification | 10 |
| Seriousness assessment and criterion | 10 |
| Causality — the score AND the reasoning about alternatives | 14 |
| Follow-up strategy | 8 |
| ICSR accuracy and internal consistency | 10 |
| Signal interpretation, duplicates, and the hypothesis rule | 6 |
| Total | 100 |
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The patient is one source and not the most reliable one. Each enquiry costs a day against the fifteen-day expedited clock, so choose, do not sweep.
Tick every event that belongs in this patient's chronology — and leave out the ones that do not. Some of the entries below come from what the patient believes rather than what happened.
In your own clinical words. Minor differences in terminology are accepted.
List every alternative explanation you considered, and say what you did with it. "None" is almost never the right answer.
What is still missing, and who will you ask for it? One item per line.
Four elements make a report valid: an identifiable patient, an identifiable reporter, a suspect medicine and a suspected reaction. Everything else improves it.
Before any pattern can be assessed, the same patient must not be counted twice. Flag any report below that you believe is the SAME patient as your case. Flagging one that is not is an error too — merging destroys real cases.
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Choose every action you are recommending, then justify it. The justification is marked, not the buttons.
Complete and submit the investigation to see the debrief.
Your report writer opens once you submit the investigation.
Author a new case in the structured format. It is stored on this installation and appears in the case list for every student on this device group.