Glossary
ACDRS: American Course on Drug Development and Regulatory Sciences
ACRP: Association of Clinical Research Professionals
APPI: Associations for Pharmaceutical Physicians and Investigators
AZ: AstraZeneca
CCDRS: Chinese Course of Drug Development and Regulatory Science
CEMDC: Cooperative European Medicines Development Course
CLIC: Clinical Investigator Course
CPD: Continuing Professional Development
Curriculum is the guideline to transfer the content of the Syllabus into the modular structure
DCTP: Diploma for Clinical Trial Professionals
DIA Europe: Drug Information Association - Europe
DIMD: Diploma in Medicines Development
DMDR: Diploma in Medical Device Regulation
EC: European Commission
ECMDR: European Course of Medical Device Regulation
ECPM: European Center of Pharmaceutical Medicine at University of Basel
ECRIN: European Clinical Research Infrastructures Network
ECTS: European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
EFCPM: European Federation of Course Providers in Pharmaceutical Medicine
EFPIA: European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries Associations
EIM: Entry into Man
Elective: A Module which can be used to complete the Masters Degree i.e. in addition to the Extension Modules (Extension Master) or as part of the Integrated Masters Programme. An Elective is part of the PharmaTrain CPD Platform.
EMA: European Medicines Agency
EMTRAIN: European Medicines Research Training Network
ENQA: European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education
EORTC: European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer
EU: European Union
EUDIPHARM: Training Course provided at Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1
EUFEPS: European Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences
EU2P: European Programme on Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology
FPM: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK
GCP: Good Clinical Practice
GSK: GlaxoSmithKline
HSET: Health Science eTraining Foundation
IFAPP: International Federation of Associations of Pharmaceutical Physicians
LO: Learning Outcomes are statements of what a student is expected to know, understand and/or be able to demonstrate after completion of a process of learning
MHRA: Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
MMD: Master of Medicines Development
MMR: Master of Medicines Regulation
MSc: Master of Science
NDA: New Drug Application
Pharmed: Postgraduate Programme in Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Medicine at the Free University of Brussels
PM: Pharmaceutical Medicine
POC: Proof of Concept
QA: Quality Assurance
QC: Quality Control
QM: Quality Management
SafeSciMET: European Modular Education and Training Programme in Safety Sciences for Medicines
SE: Semmelweis University
SMD: Specialist in Medicines Development
SPM: Specialist in Pharmaceutical Medicine
Syllabus: a list of topics comprising a subject, discipline or specialty field along the road from Molecule to Market.
TA: Therapeutic Area
UB-IL3: Instituto de Formación Continua at University of Barcelona,
UCB: Pharmaceutical Company (headquarter in Brussels)
VSCR: Vienna School of Clinical Research
