Teacher Pharmacy Database management (0.4 FTE)

University of Groningen, Netherlands

Updated: over 2 years ago
Deadline: 19 Aug 2021

The University of Groningen IADB.nl pharmacy prescription database is a dynamically growing community-based database that contains prescription data for more than 20 years from 1996 till 2019 from approximately 120 community pharmacies. Currently the database tracks medication use of an estimated population of 930,000 patients in the Northern region of The Netherlands and is representative for the Netherlands as a whole.

In 2017, the Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy (GRIP) and Lifelines started the “PharmLines Initiative” to link the multidisciplinary data of the Lifelines Cohort Study to the medication data of the widely researched prescription database, IADB.nl. The aim of the PharmLines Initiative is to facilitate research on medical drug data in combination with the broad health and biobank data of Lifelines. The IADB.nl staff has invested in expanding the database to include pharmacies in the Lifelines regions and from April 1, 2021 the 2019 database covering approximately 2.6 million persons will be available for linkage.

We are looking for a database manager/teacher who will be appointed at the SSE and participate in both teaching and development of course material. Courses taught are in all three educational Pharmacy programmes: for example, ‘Pharmacoepidemiology’, ‘From clinical trials to big data research’ (bachelor programme), ‘Pharmacoepidemiology in Practice’ and ‘Academic Skills for the pharmaceutical sciences’ (master programmes). She/he will primarily support students in their research on the in-house pharmacy prescription database IADB.nl and will work on the further development of linked databases as well as a web-interface for students.

The tasks will include:

− Supporting students in the development of the MySQL queries for their research on the IADB.nl database during their bachelor or master project;
− Evaluation and improvements of the MySQL course for bachelor and master students;
− Teaching the basics of database management and programming during the year in multiple one day tutorials;
− Further development of our research web interface ‘Apodat’ for students.


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