R&D - Device
Welcome to the R&D - Device job-specific curriculum page. You will find each class listed below with the Learning Objectives, Instructor and link to the Course Content: video, slides, note-taking worksheets. You will find that we teach the “how” and “why” of what we do in our industry. As you listen to the classes, we invite you to always take a step back and reflect on how the information connects to the total product lifecycle. We often do that with and for you during the class, but your active reflection will enable you to implement your learnings. We hope you enjoy this program!
Important Note - Content:
This program gives the R&D Professional a holistic view of the studies needed for successful product approval. The program includes an understanding of commercial manufacturing challenges, when and how to engage suppliers, post-market surveillance, and miscellaneous topics that help the R&D Professional lead successful product development.
Certificate of Completion?
To earn a Certificate of Completion:
Watch the videos on this page
Use the note-taking worksheets available in each class
Click the "Take the Certificate of Completion Quiz" button
Complete quizzes related to each video
You'll have multiple attempts to pass each quiz if needed—our goal is for you to learn, not to be penalized. Upon successful completion of the program, you will receive a Certificate of Completion.
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Novice: 12 Classes. ~5.5 Hours [.55 CEU]
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Define a Medical Device
2. Exposure to Design & Development Process
3. Understand the difference between Verification and Validation
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Discussion of Risk Based Classifications for Software as a Medical Device
2. Introduction to Post Market Surveillance for Medical Device
3. Introduction to Risk and Investigation for Medical Device
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Awareness of the terminology behind human subject research and privacy
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the criticality of a well-prepared clinical plan
2. Understand the goals of the different clinical trial phases
3. Understand the difference between a feasibility study and a pivotal study.
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Explain historical aspects of drug and device clinical trials
2. Introduction to regulatory authority oversight and guidance for clinical studies
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Examine the studies needed to support claims made on labels.
2. Understand the role of stability studies.
3. Realize the steps needed to counteract counterfeit
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Provide an overview of various types of validation: equipment, product and process.
Instructor: Bill Brodbeck
Learning Objectives:
1. Review US market medical device pathways.
2. Understand the structure and actions of FDA during submissions.
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Introduction to the product development lifecycle
2. Understand the intricacies of cross-functional alignment throughout development
3. Learn the criticality of risk identification, evaluation and mitigation
4. Exposure to the usefulness of the stage gate process
5. Understand the complexity of validating a process
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Delve into the impact of storage conditions.
2. Explore the challenges with transit conditions.
3. Understand the importance and role of packaging.
Instructors: Bill Brodbeck
Learning Objectives:
1. Awareness of regulatory requirements around Design Inputs
2.Understand the importance of user needs identification
3. Define what it means to write good requirements
4. How to write/translate user needs into design input requirements
Instructors: Bill Brodbeck
Learning Objectives:
1. Awareness of regulatory requirements around Design Outputs
2. Understand the relationship between Design Inputs and Design Outputs
3. Awareness of the multiple sources of Design Outputs across the design and development life cycle.
Intermediate: 15 Classes. ~7 Hours [.7 CEU]
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Recognize the impact of the supply chain on patient safety
2. Understand a Paradigm shifting view of supply chain failures
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn how to gain internal alignment on requirements of your suppliers that are important to you
2. Align on how well your suppliers meet your requirements
3. Understand the criticality of alignment prior to selecting a supplier and for on-going assessment of the supplier
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. How to align internally on supply chain criteria
2. How, when and why to engage the supplier
3. Understand the role and criticality of self-qualification
4. Understand the benefits of relationship risk mapping
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand how clinical trial outcomes can be biased, misinterpreted, and not understood.
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Explore a case study for design of a clinical trial.
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Provide an overview of various types of validation: cleaning and computer systems.
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Exposure to what manufacturing in the medical device industry looks like
2. Introduction into the controls needed for consistent product outcomes.
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1.Envision the total qualification process
2. Understand key aspects of Installation Qualification and Operational Qualification
3. Explore the qualification of an eye drop filler process
Instructor: Bill Brodbeck
Learning Objectives:
1. Overview of Medical Device Design and Development
2. Understand the Concept Phase of Design and its role in Design and Development
3. Understand the role of Regulatory Affairs in the Concept Phase
Instructors: Bill Brodbeck
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the Design Planning Phase of Design and Development
2. Overview of Design and Development Files
3. Understand the role of Regulatory Affairs in the Planning Phase of Design and Development
Instructor: Bill Brodbeck
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify the regulatory requirements for Design Reviews
2. Understand when Design Reviews should be conducted and what they should cover
3. Discuss lessons learned for conducting effective design reviews
Instructor: Bill Brodbeck
Learning Objectives:
1. Understanding of Verification vs. Validation
2.Exposure to the processes that are coming together within a Verification & Validation Phase of Medical Device Development
3. Define and explore Design Verification activities
Instructor: Bill Brodbeck
Learning Objectives:
1. Further understanding of Verification vs. Validation
2. Understand that the scope of Design Validation includes evaluation of production units or equivalent
3. Define and explore Design Validation activities
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand production and process control requirements.
2. Consider Process Validation practices for medical device manufacturing.
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Close out discussion on Stage-gate Model
2. Understand the types of decisions made during stage gate models that relate to the product, process, business and patient
Advanced: 11 Classes. ~5.2 Hours [.52 CEU]
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the ways in which computer systems support operations and decision making
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand what needs to be done to protect computerized data and information
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Explore examples of enforcement actions at various levels
2. Consider different perspectives in these activities
Instructor: Marla Phillips, Ph.D.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the gap between clinical trial and real-world data
2. Identify passive and active data collection methods
3. Learn regulatory reporting requirements
4. Explore AI-powered surveillance techniques
Instructors: Bill Brodbeck
Learning Objectives:
1. Define Design Transfer.
2. Identify the Design Transfer activities occurring in Design Input, Output and V&V phases of development.
3. Consider how to trace key safety-related Design Transfer activities within the Risk Management File
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand regulatory requirements for computer system validation (CSV)/ Computer Software Assurance (CSA)
2. Understand the process
Instructor: Shannon Hoste
Learning Objectives:
1. Become aware of the evolving technological and regulatory science landscape around Digital Health
2. Learn about the different aspects & considerations within Digital Health, such as cybersecurity vulnerabilities
Instructor: Marla Phillips
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand how AI works behind the scenes in the world of imaging
2. How to transform our concept of validation to a system that constantly changes
Instructor: Marla Phillips
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand how 3D printing is and can be used in the health care industry
2. Exposure to regulatory guideline approaches to keeping up with the pace of innovation
Instructor: Bill Brodbeck
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the requirements and process for change control.
2. Understand the required reviews and documentation dependent on the phase in which design changes occur.
3. Review regulatory submission pathways.
Instructor: Marla Phillips
Learning Objectives:
1. Development Journey: Looking at design controls through the lens of an epinephrine auto-injector story