Abstract
Introduction: During the covid 19 period, several countries needed to set up or develop their pharmacovigilance systems, unfortunately containment and the closure of borders prevented the organisation of classic training sessions. the anti-poison centre of morocco, a WHO collaborating centre for the development of pharmacovigilance practices, set up several online training sessions and, in parallel, a pharmacovigilance simulation game was developed to allow for autonomous learning in this field Translated with www.DeepL.com/ Translator (free version) Objective: The objective of this work is to present the pharma-covigilance simulation game developed by CAPM, RCC and the results of its pilot use with 150 pharmacovigilants from 10 French-speaking African countries Methods: Pharmacovigilance and drug safety simulation game was developed by the Rabat WHO collaborating centre (RCC) in collaboration with the IT company Nowedge. The game is based on good practices in Pharmacovigilance(PV), and inspired by the different WHO guidelines, the experience of the Moroccan PV center, and behaviors consensually considered as the norm in PV. Results: The game allows the assessment of soft skills, and the evaluation of participants' ability to make decisions in real life situations. In fact, they are put in a real-life situation to choose actions and strategies for the development of a PV center and must be able to optimize the human and material resources at their disposal to make their center shine within their national health system but also at the level of the international PV network.