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State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Regulatory Partners

 

In support of our common public health mission, FDA's Office of Inspections and Investigations' Office of Training Education and Development (OTED) provides free training to state, local and tribal regulatory partners. This page contains information and instructions that will be very helpful to you as you begin your learning experience with OTED.

FY25 National Cooperative Program Training Schedule and Registration Process:

If you did not receive the course announcement, you can access the course announcement in LearnEd. Follow the instructions in this link: How to register for a Cooperative Foods Course.

 

OTED’s Learning Managment System

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OTED offers continuous learning with a combination of online courses and classroom training. We offer continuing education units (CEUs). FDA/OII collaborates with its stakeholders and external organizations to develop suggested curricula to meet the training needs of our regulatory partners.

Our goal is for OTED to serve you as a source of training, as well as, a provider of certification.

OTED Online Courses

We presently offer over 100 web-based courses. Topics include food and drug law, public health principles, communication skills, food microbiology, HACCP, foodborne illness investigations among others.

OTED online courses are competency-based with mastery quizzes contained within each module. Once you have completed a course, you can print a Certification of Completion for your records.

OTED currently uses a Learning Management Systems (LMS) called OII LearnED, for its training programs. OII LearnED LMS replaced Pathlore legacy LMS for delivering online and classroom trainings.

State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Partners may visit to access online content and prerequisites.
 
On this page you will find more information on the OII LearnED Training System, and Food Emergency Response Network as well as how to obtain your respective transcripts:
 
 

OII LearnEd Training System

Where to access the OII LearnEd System:

Log onto: https://fdaoted.csod.com and click on the blue button labeled “Calendar” to view currently scheduled OTED courses. For a more comprehensive look into using OII LearnED you can view the following OII LearnED OTED resources: Knowledge Bank: Topics: Learner User Guides: (csod.com).

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Glossary Crosswalk for Learners: Since the OII LearnEd Training System utilizes different terminology than that of the legacy Pathlore LMS we’ve prepared this Glossary Crosswalk to help you navigate the new system.
 
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Quick Reference Guide: View our OII LearnEd Quick Reference Guide to see a synopsis of the system.
 
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Short video tutorials: Click the following links to view our short video tutorials:
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Logging into the FDA Office of Inspections and Investigations Training System – State, Local, Tribal, Territorial Regulators, Non-FDA Federal Regulators and FDA Center Personnel
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Search Functions, Requesting a Class, in the FDA Office of Inspections and Investigations Training System – OII LearnEd as a State, Local, Tribal, Territorial Regulator, Non-FDA Federal Regulator, and FDA Center Personnel
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Accessing Transcript, obtaining a Course Completion Certificate, adding external training to transcript in the FDA Office of Inspections and Investigations Training System OII LearnEd – All end users.
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Accessing Connections Tab Features in the FDA Office of Inspections and Investigations Training System – OII LearnEd - All users
 
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User Guides: For a more comprehensive look into using OII LearnEd you can view the following OII LearnEd OTED User Guides:
 

Food Emergency Response Network (FERN)

FERN Website: this link will direct you to the public FERN website. To access the FERN Introduction Modules, please click on Read More and scroll down.

 

How to get your Personal Transcripts

  • For courses taken through the OII LearnEd LMS LearnEd LMS, log into the Welcome page, then click on the blue ‘Transcript’ button https://fdaoted.csod.com
  • For courses and learning requirements delivered through the HHS learning portal, log into https://lms.learning.hhs.gov/ and click “learning”
 
For questions and comments about this site, contact the appsdesk@fda.hhs.gov.
 
 

Phone: 301-796-4550
Fax: 301-827-8708

Email: oted@fda.hhs.gov
Website: www.fda.gov/Training

11919 Rockville Pike
Rockville MD 20852
 
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