Compounding Quality Center of Excellence | Instructor-Led Trainings
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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Course
Description
CE Credits
Dates
Location
Registration
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
August 11-13, 2026
College Station, TX
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
April 13-16, 2026
Virtual
Effective Change Management
Apply what you have learned in other training courses to implement effective changes in your facility. Learn how to ensure changes are properly controlled, documented and adopted to comply with drug quality regulation. Overcome common barriers to incorporating changes, including taking proactive approaches that reduce risk and enable continuous improvement.
13.75 hours
April 28-29, 2026
Durham, NC
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
May 20-21, 2026
Seattle, WA
Environmental Monitoring
Learn how to develop an environmental monitoring program and various sample collection methods.
15.25 hours
July 14-16, 2026
Raleigh, NC
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
July 21-23, 2026
Raleigh, NC
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
September 28-29, 2026
Seattle, WA
Data Integrity
Learn practical tools to design and implement processes that collect and use data while ensuring the data are complete, consistent and accurate.
12 hours
September 30 - October 1, 2026
Seattle, WA
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Summary
The Compounding Quality Center of Excellence's free in-person training programs target outsourcing facility staff and offer continuing education credits. The training will open for state regulators and pharmacy compounders if space is available.