Our Aims:
- To share information about MedDRA, this can range from current user issues to learning how other groups use MedDRA
- To learn from the experience of others
- To interact with the group and participate at meetings
- To ensure we keep up to date with developments within the coding industry including system upgrades
- To raise the profile of coding as a specialist area
- To try to ensure coding consistency across the industry
- To help improve MedRA and try to influence MSSO
- Help develop coding expertise within the industry and 'educate' investigators on being MedRA aware
Over the years we've had meetings in England, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium and Switzerland. We've had presentations from DIA, MSSO, UMC, industry and therapeutic area experts plus many more and some of the best presentations have been provided by the members of the SIG themselves.
Ideally we should have a minimum of 2 per year and following discussions at the last live meeting it was agreed that one of these should be a live / face to face meeting and at least one teleconference / webinar.
If you want to join the Coding and Dictionaries SIG or just wish to contact us please email: admin@acdm.org.uk
We now have a LinkedIn Group. To participate or just to read the latest discussions click HERE.
Coding and Dictionaries - Forthcoming SIG activities
The Coding & Dictionaries SIG would like to thank Sarah Brunnen of CK Clinical for hosting the recent live SIG meeting on Friday 2nd July 2010. We'd also like to extend this thanks to Daniel Von Sydow of UMC who flew in from Sweden especially to present on Standardised Drug Groupings!
The next SIG meeting will be a WebEx 3 hour meeting (date TBC)
For suggestions and ideas for the WebEx meeting please contact the SIG chair at ian.slack@parexel.com or vanessa.pierpoint@merckserono.net
FUTURE Meetings
WEBINAR/TC - We are looking to hold one of these online meetings around October 2010.
Next LIVE meeting - This will be held at Merck-Serono in Geneva on Friday 1st April 2011 - The DIA Euro conference will be held in Geneva from the Mon - Wed and it is likely that the EU MedDRA User Group meeting will be tagged on to the end of the conference on the Thursday. Hopefully this other 'free' meeting will allow members to travel and attend both the MedDRA meeting and the SIG.
Quote from one of our attendees at the June 09 meeting:
"Just a note to say thank you for having organised yesterday's coding SIG teleconference. I appreciate it is difficult to find the time to arrange things like this on top of an already busy life, and I'm sure I'm not the only one to feel grateful. Working in a CRO, one sometimes feels a bit isolated from the mainstream and for me the opportunity to talk to other people from time to time is really valuable. I enjoyed the formal presentations at last July's meeting, but really felt that yesterday there was good discussion about points that affect our day to day lives and think that a mixture of telecons and F2Fs is a really good way to go."