Resources for healthcare professionals

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) makes available resource materials including videos and links to workshops for healthcare professionals interested in learning more about EMA activities.

Training Resources

EMA has developed a series of training videos entitled 'EMA basics'.

Together with the videos, EMA provides the presentation slides and related documents.

'EMA Basics' videos	Related documents
The European Medicines Agency	Presentation - European Medicines Agency
The centralised procedure	Presentation - Centralised procedure at the European Medicines Agency
How EMA works with healthcare professionals	Presentation - How the European Medicines Agency works with healthcare professionals
Involvement of patients	Presentation - How the European Medicines Agency interacts with patients and consumers
The Patients' and Consumers' Working Party	Presentation - Patients' and Consumers' Working Party (PCWP)
Pharmacovigilance	Presentation - Pharmacovigilance at the European Medicines Agency
Declarations of interests: a practical guide	Presentation - Declarations of interests: a practical guide
What is a European safety referral	Presentation - What is a European safety referral
Introduction to the summary of product characteristics (SmPC)	Presentation - Introduction: summary of product characteristics (SmPC)   Presentation - Summary of product characteristics (SmPC)

Workshops

For information on recent EMA workshops of particular relevance to healthcare professionals, or where they have participated as speakers, see:

• EMA multi-stakeholder workshop on psychedelics – Towards an EU regulatory framework (16-17/04/2024)
• HMA/EMA multi-stakeholder workshop on shortages (01/03/2023)
• ACT EU multi-stakeholder platform kick-off workshop (22/06/2023)
• ACT EU PA04 - Multi-stakeholder Workshop on ICH E6 R3 - Public Consultation (13/07/2023)
• Joint Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA)/European Medicines Agency (EMA) AI workshop – Smart regulation in a rapidly evolving world (20/11/2023)
• Workshop on generating clinical evidence for treatment and prevention options for long-COVID / post-acute sequelae condition (PASC) (17/11/2023)
• ACT EU PA08 multi-stakeholder methodology workshop (23/11/2023)
• Multistakeholder workshop on EMA’s extended mandate (01/04/2022)
• Protection of personal data and commercially confidential information (CCI) for documents uploaded and published in the Clinical Trials Information System (CTIS): Workshop on draft guidance (14/07/2022)
• Multi-stakeholder workshop: Patient experience data in medicines development and regulatory decision-making (21/09/2022)
• Workshop on the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the area of health and Secondary Use of Data for Medicines and Public Health Purposes(23/09/2020)
• Workshop on benefit-risk of medicines used during pregnancy and breastfeeding(22/09/2020)
• ICH E6(R3) good clinical practice workshop with Patients' and Consumers' (PCWP) and Healthcare Professionals' (HCPWP) Working Parties(03/06/2020)
• PCWP and HCPWP joint meeting: info session on antimicrobial resistance(19/09/2017)
• PCWP) and HCPW joint workshop on personalised medicines(14/03/2017)

Webinars

Webinar on transparency rules for the EU Clinical Trials Information System CTIS

Webinar on revision of the pharmaceutical legislation

CHMP early contact of patient and HCP organisations - training webinar, 19 April 2023

Information session on on advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) with PCWP and HCPWP on 28 June 2022