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Malcolm Applewhite
Quality & Regulatory Affairs Officer at Strait Access Technologies
October 2015
Online Training in the Medical Device Field
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There is always a need for training employees whether new or established in the principals of ISO 13485 as well as ISO 14971. There are various options for accomplishing this: Class room settings at a training provider with either just your companies delegates or in an environment with different delegates. The training provider can also do on site training incorporating your companies quality system.
I would like to know if there are any online training courses that will achieve the same standard as the class room setting?
Is it possible to find training for 13485 and 14971 combined?

I look forward to your responses regarding my questions.

source: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/78665/78665-6056130205079138308

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Judith Koehnen Hi Malcolm, You can check the WMDO homepage. They are specialized on device trainings. Good luck
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Malcolm Applewhite Hi Judith,
The courses on WMDO look impressive - do you have any first hand experience with WMDO?
Thanks
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Judith Koehnen I personally performed the ISO14155 training and liked it.
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That's good to hear, I'm looking at these too for my team.
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Julie Omohundro I am not sure what standard you are referring to as being achieved in a classroom setting. The quality of training provided in a classroom, like training online, can range from dismal to excellent, and the medium via which training is presented is probably the least important factor in determining where its quality falls along that continuum.
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Malcolm Applewhite Thanks for your insights Julie.
The reason I phrased my request for information like that is because generally speaking and more often than not I have heard it said that the interaction in a class room setting creates a superior learning experience. I agree that the content and the way it is presented is not necessarily superior in the class room setting.
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Julie Omohundro Malcolm, I have heard the same thing. It seemed to be a particularly common theme before the bricks-and-mortar institutions finally started offering their own online programs.

I agree that interaction is much easier in a classroom setting, and generally requires more expensive technology to incorporate into online training. However, I think there is a difference between a good "experience" and good training, so that it is possible come away from a good experience with not-so-good training. I also think there is a difference between education and training. It is probably in education where the classroom is more likely to have the advantage.

I think the key is to be clear on what it is you want to get from the time you are investing in either education or training, and then find a program that will deliver it. Easier said than done, I know...
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Nannette Nolan Hi there - might I recommend Life Science Training Institute. I believe they have a lot in the regulatory space. I know they have a lot of course for in-person and online - they may even offer custom courses: http://www.lifesciencetraininginstitute.com/
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Nannette Nolan Oh, and we also have some suppliers who partner with my org - some have experience in the compliance space as well. Free to check out: http://www.l-ten.org/search/newsearch.asp
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Dan O'Leary I do a lot of training in a few formats. Principally they are two-day public seminars, two-day inhouse seminars, and 90 minute webinars. I view these formats as having different purposes and outcomes.

In the public seminars, for example, I encourage interruption, questions on the spot, and discussion. I tell the participants if they have an issue, there could be someone else in the room with solution, and I hope to get them together.

The webinar usually delivers very specific information, narrowly focused. Because the producers record and resell the webinars, they don’t like questions during the presentation. They are all saved to the end. In addition, the participants are not encouraged to interact with each other, only the speaker. It is very rare, in a webinar, to get follow-up question based on another participant’s question.

I have tried some on line seminars in which we built in discussion time and tried to get the participants to talk and interchange ideas, but it wasn’t successful. I suspect the participants were not comfortable having a discussion people they could not see.
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Julie Omohundro Dan, yes, I find it interesting that, in the 80s, videoconferencing, where all participants could see each other, seemed to be the coming thing, and then...nothing. Or at least, not much, that I know of. But certainly the technology is there, if someone wanted to pursue online seminars where all participants were visible to each other. Not sure about the expense, but with webcams, the internet, and other advances that weren't available in the 80s, I have wondered why this never evolved.
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David Lim, Ph.D. RAC, CQA I provide mostly online training seminars (60 min, 90 min, 5 hrs in 5 sessions, 12 hrs in 8 sessions) on various topics at http://globalcomplianceseminar.com; I get a chance to answer various questions by email or sometimes on the phone not face to face at all. I also have few one one one program per se as I provide individually-customised trainings on one topics up to ten topics including, but not limited to, GLP, GCP, GMP, regulatory drafting, etc. Dan O'Leary and Julie Omohundro - always good to read your posts in other places! #DavidLim
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