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Editorial:
Welcome to the 4th edition of inside_ON-COURSE.

To read our previous editions click on the images at the top of this issue.

No slowdown on the number of entered courses.
The section 'no of entered courses' has become permanent in our reports and reveals a constant increase of approximately 200 courses per month. This trajectory is expected to level off sometime in 2013 when the on-course^® rocket finally leaves the atmosphere and reaches its destination of being "fully comprehensive". We also provide a new compact form for course type, status and language statistics with emphasis on the importance of English (in course descriptions, in the list of scientific and therapeutic areas, etc.) which has become the de facto language of life sciences and biomedical research.
We've been deliberately compiling lists of European Universities in different contexts: top universities in 2nd edition, courses in national languages in the 3rd edition as this increases the web ranking of on-course^®. In this edition readers will find the compiled list of 'Drug discovery' courses. This scientific area listed under on-course search options 'Scientific and Therapeutic areas' is at the same time the first section in PharmaTrain Syllabus and IFAPP Syllabus for Postgraduate courses in Pharmaceutical Medicine. The IMI - Introduction Video (see useful links) again demonstrates the importance of academic scientific research in this area.

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Editorial office:

Tony Payton (University of Manchester) UK
Pavel Dallakian (Medical University of Vienna) Austria

statistics

ON-COURSE_stats > no. of entered courses

Total courses entered between December 2011 and September 2012.

ON-COURSE_stats > overview


All Courses		14th September 2012: 4573
Course type	Masters 2202	PhD 909	CPD 1462
Status	Published 4141	Not published 120	Archived 298
Language	English 3630	French 369	German 160

English has become the de facto language of life sciences and biomedical research.

EUROPEAN_UNIVERSITIES > Drug Discovery courses > ~ 243 courses

Course name	Type	Provider\|World ranking Life Sciences & Medicine
Early Stage Drug Discovery	Short courses (CPD)	University of Cambridge	2
MRes Experimental Physiology and Drug Discovery	Masters - research programme	Imperial College London	11
PhD, Drug Design	PhD	University College London	17
Drug Discovery (M-8113)	Short courses (CPD)	University of Copenhagen	53
Pharmacy - Center for Drug Research	PhD	University of Helsinki	66
MSc Drug Chemistry	Masters - taught	Newcastle University	148
MSc Drug Design	Masters - taught	Aston University	334
MSc Pharmacology and Drug Discovery	Masters - taught	Coventry University	»
MSc Drug Design and Biomedical Sciences	Masters - taught	Edinburgh Napier University	»
Drug Discovery and Development	Short courses (CPD)	SafeSciMET	»

Find more courses at on-course®

Drug discovery vs in-silico drug design. Traditional pharmaceutical research vs cheminformatics.

analytics

ON-COURSE_analytics > Visitors overview

	All Visits	New Visitors	Returning Visitors
Visits	10,048	7,052	2,996
Unique Visitors	7,049	7,048	802
Pages/Visit	5.34	4.08	8.30
Avg. Visit Duration	00:04:51	00:02:36	00:10:09

The total number of visits and unique visitors since 1 March 2012.

ON-COURSE_long-term analytics

Long-term analytics, March - August 2012.

ON-COURSE_analytics > returning visitors

Where do on-course returning visitors come from?

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ON-COURSE_app > links

on-course® App links and discussion

questions & answers

ON-COURSE_search and refinement tool

on-course® favourite searches for the registred users keyword and saved searches

on-course® Frequently Asked Questions

Why become a registered on-course user? The registration brings some useful advanced features and it's free. Register and check it out!
Can I save my favourite searches for future use? As a registered user you can save you searches and manage them.
How can I use on-course platform for PharmaTrain Syllabus mapping? The PharmaTrain Syllabus is "a list of topics comprising a subject, discipline or specialty field" and can be found at www.pharmatrain.eu Below you will find some examples for mapping by using the Search and refinement tool, Save this search option and Saved searches utility. Search itself can be performed either by using 'Scientific areas' filter or by 'Keyword' search. If you didn't find the scientific area you needed, please use keyword search.
Section 1: Discovery of Medicines In this case you can use either scientific area 'Drug discovery' or input "Discovery" AND ("Medicine" OR "Drug") as a keyword.
Section 2: Development of Medicines: Planning The pre-defined scientific area would be "Drug development science". This search results in 380 hits as of 10th September 2012. The alternative keyword search by using, for example, "Development" AND ("Medicine" OR "Drug") returns about 149 courses. Check it out what kind of search is more efficient for your particular purporses.
Section 3: Non-Clinical Testing "Non-clinical" means also "Preclinical". So, you could select for your initial search the scientific area "Preclinical and clinical studies". For example, on Sep 10th this search returned 378 courses. You can also construct a keyword. Our suggestion would be ("Non-clinical" OR "Preclinical") AND ("Testing" OR "Study"). The last one returns only 37 courses. If the search results are satisfactory you can save the search for the future use by using of 'Save this search' utility.
Section 10: Regulatory Affairs [TEST YOURSELF] Compare the search results by scientific area 'Regulatory Affairs' and by using keyword "Regulatory" AND "Affairs". How many courses did you find in each case? Compare the first ten courses you found by 'scientific area' search and 'keyword' search. Sign in and 'Save this search'.

DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT > useful links

PharmaTrain Syllabus vs IFAPP Syllabus:

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