Pharma Curriculum Development Using a Learning Management System (LMS)

Pharma companies use Learning Management Systems (LMS) as vital tool for demonstrating to regulatory authorities that they are maintaining and ensuring their staff training efforts are up-to-date. Most LMS systems frequently claim unlimited functionality and scalability but have limitations that companies should be aware of in order for them to overcome and be able to use effectively. One of the most problematic areas in most LMS systems is the development of the training curricula. Every system presents its own unique challenges and eats into time which one does not anticipate. Moreover, many of us have training as an ancillary responsibility and we do not have the luxury of time to create and maintain a complex array of curricula.

Join this 90 minute webinar if you want to capitalize on the benefits of a LMS and avoid the pains. This course will take you through the creation of job function curriculum with the help of LMS as well as provide you with the tools required to build effective curricula for the pharmaceutical industry.

Learning Objectives:

• Articulating what constitutes a Pharma curriculum
• How to distinguish a true Pharma curriculum from common misconceptions regarding Pharma curricula
• Working effectively with peers and management to set up curricula for their organizations
• Obtain details of employees’ job functions that are necessary for setting up curricula
• Create curricula that are intuitive and apt for employees
• Demonstrate training compliance to auditors through the effective use of curricula

Areas Covered in the Session :

• What a true Pharma curriculum is
• Requirements for Pharma curricula
• What a true Pharma curriculum is not
• Why is setting up curricula so complicated?
• Obtain details of employee job functions that are necessary for setting up curricula
• How to create intuitive curricula
• Fighting the LMS – common issues
• Use LMS functionality
• Audit considerations

Who Should Attend:

This course will be of benefit to training employees, both individual contributors and management, who are responsible for the creation and management of Pharma training curricula such as:

• LMS administrators
• Trainers
• Training managers and their supervisors
• Subject matter experts
• Regulatory management
• QA management
• Consultants
• Quality Managers
• Audit Managers
• Quality Analysts

Course Director: MICHAEL ESPOSITO ‎

Michael Esposito has 30 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry and 13 years experience in GMP training and document management. He has worked for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division in a variety of areas including Packaging, project administration, Quality Assurance, Government Contracts, translations, systems training, and international operations. He collaborated in the development and implementation of the training portion of the Consent Decree workplan for McNeil and revised their introductory GMP course. He is a member of the training organization GMP TEA and is fully fluent in Spanish. His areas of interest include systems training, training effectiveness, post-training user support, process improvement, and sustainable packaging.