Compounding Quality Center of Excellence | Instructor-Led Trainings
Sign up for compounding and Compounding Quality Center of Excellence emails
The FDA Compounding Quality Center of Excellence offers instructor-led training courses, in-person or virtually, to outsourcing facilities. Limited space also is available for pharmacy compounders and regulators.
The in-person trainings offer practical activities for learning. These multi-day training courses provide continuing education (CE) credits for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, physicians and nurses. Early registration is recommended.
The fee is $499 per person, per course.
These trainings are recommended for:
- Operations, production and manufacturing personnel
- Quality personnel, including quality control and quality assurance
- Pharmacists
- Facility and engineering personnel
- Microbiologists
- Laboratory personnel
- Pharmacy technicians
- Management
- Senior leadership
Register for Courses
Request registration by clicking the registration link.
| Course | Description | CE Credits | Dates | Location | Registration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Monitoring | Learn how to develop an environmental monitoring program and various sample collection methods. | 15.25 hours | November 19-21, 2024 | Carlsbad, CA | Register today |
| May 14-16, 2025 | Raleigh, NC | Registration opens January 2025 | |||
| Visual Inspection – NEW | Learn the basic principles, processes, and systems related to visual inspection of compounded drugs, including manual and automated visual inspection, defect classification strategies, training/qualification and inspection processes and challenges. | 12 hours | December 12-13, 2024 | Durham, NC | Register today |
| May 12-13, 2025 | Registration opens January 2025 | ||||
| Cleanroom | Learn to conduct cleanroom performance tests, such as airflow velocity and uniformity, high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter leak testing and repairs and airflow visualization smoke studies. | 13.75 hours | January 14-16, 2025 | Bethesda, MD | Register today |
| July 22-24, 2025 | Raleigh, NC | Registration opens March 2025 | |||
| Investigations and Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) | Learn science-based methodology, integrating problem-solving techniques from total quality management (TQM), Six Sigma, and Kaizen to identify the technical root causes, systemic root causes, corrective and/or preventive action and a control plan for preventing recurrence. | 16.50 hours | January 27-30, 2025 | Virtual | Register today |
| August 11-14, 2025 | Registration opens April 2025 | ||||
| Sterile Drug Compounding | Learn the basic principles, processes, and systems related to sterile drug production through integrated principles of aseptic processing, sterile filtration, cleanroom operations, facility cleaning and disinfection, aseptic process simulation (media fills) and environmental monitoring. | 15.25 hours | February 4-6, 2025 | Bethesda, MD | Register today |
| August 4-6, 2025 | Raleigh, NC | Registration opens April 2025 | |||
| Data Integrity – NEW | Learn key concepts to consider when designing processes that collect and utilize data and associated metadata to ensure data is complete, consistent, and accurate. | 12 hours | February 25-26, 2025 | Durham, NC | Register today |
| June 12-13, 2025 | Registration opens February 2025 | ||||
| Quality Management Systems (QMS) | Learn the fundamentals of establishing an effective quality management system and building a culture of quality within a facility, including information on the comprehensive QMS approach to quality and the critical role of senior leadership. | 15 hours | February 27-28, 2025 | Durham, NC | Register today |
| June 10-11, 2025 | Registration opens February 2025 | ||||
| Process Validation | Learn general principles and approaches of process validation and the importance of ensuring control in the manufacturing process to produce consistent, quality drugs for patients. This course aligns process validation activities with a product lifecycle concept. | 15 hours | March 24-27, 2025 | Virtual | Register today |