Compounding Quality Center of Excellence | Instructor-Led Trainings
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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 $249 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
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Request registration by clicking the registration link.
| Course | Description | CE Credits | Dates | Location | Registration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Oct. 6-9, 2025 | Virtual | Register today |
| Visual Inspection | 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 | Nov. 4-5, 2025 | Durham, NC | Register today |
| Environmental Monitoring | Learn how to develop an environmental monitoring program and various sample collection methods. | 15.25 hours | Nov. 10-12, 2025 | College Station, TX | Register today |
| 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 | Jan. 27-29, 2026 | College Station, TX | Register today |
| 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 | Feb. 10-11, 2026 | College Station, TX | Register today |
| Data Integrity | 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 | Feb. 12-13 2026 | College Station, TX | Register today |
| 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 | March 16-18, 2026 | College Station, TX | Register today |