Online Quiz on Pharmacovigilance Week-2025 with Certificate

Organizer: NAVYUG VIDYABHAVAN TRUST’S, C. K. PITHAWALLA INSTITUTE OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCE AND RESEARCH, SURAT.

NATIONAL LEVEL ONLINE Quiz on Pharmacovigilance-ADR & Report to PvPI On the occasion of “5th National Pharmacovigilance Week-2025”, “Your Safety, Just a Click Away:Report to PvPI”

About the Quiz

• Date of Event: 22nd September, 2025
• Link open Time: 10 am to 4:30 pm
• Free Participants
• Open to All Pharmacy Students.
• Certificate will be Provided & Certificates you can download from the College Website from 25-09-2025.
• Attempt all questions.
• Each Question carry 5 Points.

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Pharmacovigilance primarily deals with:  *

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a) Drug discovery

b) Clinical trial design

c) Detection, assessment, understanding, and prevention of adverse drug reactions

d) Drug formulation

Which international body coordinates global pharmacovigilance activities?
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a) US FDA

b) EMA

c) UMC (Uppsala Monitoring Centre), Sweden

d) CDSCO, India

Theme of 5th National Pharmacovigilance Week 2025 is:
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a) “Report ADRs: Your safety matters”

b) “Your Safety, Just a Click Away: Report to PvPI”

c) “Safe drugs, healthy lives”

d) “Together for drug safety”

Which of the following is NOT an objective of PvPI?
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a) To monitor ADRs in India

b) To generate evidence-based safety data

c) To promote reporting culture among healthcare professionals

d) To promote drug discovery research

The causality assessment of ADRs is most commonly done using:
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a) Naranjo scale

b) Glasgow scale

c) GCS scale

d) Wells score

Pharmacovigilance programme of India was started by Govt of India on
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a) 14th July 2012

b) 14th July 2010

c) 10 June 2012

d) 10 July 2010

The helpline number of PvPI is:
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a) 1800-180-3024

b) 1800-222-522

c) 1800-102-2211

d) 1800-180-1111

The National Coordination Centre (NCC) for PvPI is located at:
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a) AIIMS, New Delhi

b) Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission, Ghaziabad

c) ICMR, New Delhi

d) NIPER, Mohali

A “Signal” in pharmacovigilance refers to:
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a) Proof of causality

b) Suggestion of possible causal relationship needing further evaluation

c) Statistical error

d) Spontaneous patient complaint

 PV tools not used by UMC are 
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a) VigiFlowTM

b) VigiSearchTM

c) VigiMineTM

d) VigiPassTM

Which form is used for ADR reporting under PvPI?
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a) CDSCO Form 44

b) Yellow Card

c) Suspected ADR Reporting Form

d) Form 20B

PvPI functions under which central regulatory body?
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a) ICMR

b) CDSCO, under Ministry of Health & Family Welfare

c) PCI

d) AIIMS

Which healthcare professionals can report ADRs to PvPI?
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a) Only doctors

b) Only pharmacists

c) Only nurses

d) Any healthcare professional and patients

What is full form of MedDRA?
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a) Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities

b) Medical Directory for Regulatory Affairs

c) Medical Dictionary for Regulations and Actions

d) Medical Directory for Regulations of Affairs

Pharmacovigilance is crucial for which phase of drug development?
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a) Preclinical studies

b) Phase I trials

c) Post-marketing surveillance (Phase IV)

d) Formulation development

What does “Spontaneous reporting” mean in pharmacovigilance?
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a) Voluntary ADR reporting without pre-planned study design

b) Mandatory submission by doctors

c) Reporting only during clinical trials

d) Computer-generated reports

WHO defines an ADR as:
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a) Any reaction occurring after drug use

b) A noxious and unintended response at normal doses used in humans

c) A predictable side effect of a drug

d) An event seen only in overdose

Process of pharmacovigilance is-*

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a) Case processing-signal management-risk management -submission to umc

b) Case processing-risk management -signal management-submission to umc

c) Submission to umc- case processing-signal management-risk management

d) Risk management- submission to umc- case processing-signal management

The mobile application launched by PvPI for ADR reporting is:
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a) ADR Alert

b) MedWatch

c) ADR PvPI

d) PvPI Helpline

  What is the full form of PvPI?  *

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a) Pharmacovigilance Programme of India

b) Pharmaceutical Vigilance Programme of India

c) Pharmacological Vigilance Project of India

d) Pharmacy Vigilance Programme of India