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Duration: 180 Days

Fees: 346 US$

Course duration is the Learning Management System (LMS) access available to the student. However, the student can complete the course early or whenever within 180 days and appear for the exam as per the individual learning goals.

Eligibility criteria:

  • Working knowledge of pharmaceutical and/or medical devices industry

Course material:

  • PowerPoint Presentations
  • Reference material
  • Articles
  • Case Studies
  • Case Reference Material
  • Management System Documentation Templates
  • Videos

Assessment method:

  • Assignments
  • Examination

Career Prospects:

  • Quality Control / Assurance Manager / Executive / cGMP Consultant

Certified Pharmaceutical Professional in Good Manufacturing Practice


The Certified Pharmaceutical Professional in Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)

  • The Certified Pharmaceutical Professional in Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) Program is a complete course on the best practices regarding control and management of manufacturing and quality control testing for pharmaceutical products, with other domains covered such as medical devices.
  • The Certified Pharmaceutical GMP Professional understands the good manufacturing practices (GMP) as regulated and guided by national and international agencies for the pharmaceutical industry. This covers finished human and veterinary drugs and biologics, ectoparasiticides, and dietary supplements (alternatively called nutraceuticals) where regulated as drug products, as well as their component raw materials (includes active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and excipients), and packaging, and labelling operations.
  • This course addresses cGMP regulations, employees working with finished pharmaceuticals, combination products, biological, APIs or devices will gain insight on how to better structure their respective quality systems in order to more effectively manage compliance for multiple products.
  • With their breadth of knowledge, employees holding a CPGP can support nearly any aspect of your company’s business and deliver exceptional performance.

Key Outcomes:

  • Understand fundamental requirements and consequences of noncompliance of regulatory agency governance, including global regulatory framework, relevant regulations and guidelines, and mutual recognition agreements.
  • Understand, apply, and evaluate elements and requirements of a quality management system that included elements of pharmaceutical supply chain.
  • Understand fundamentals of product design factors and phase-appropriate GMP requirements including technology transfer processes.
  • Understand and assess thru self-inspections, audits, and supply chain management including skills to evaluate records, documents, and reports created within the quality management system.
  • Understand and apply requirements of sampling plans and procedures for shipping and receiving materials, analyse in-house storage, identification, and rotation of materials, and meet requirements for materials traceability and sourcing, including returned goods.
  • Understand, apply, analyse, and evaluate requirements, specifications, and data relating to laboratory management system, including relevant requirements for the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan, investigations of atypical laboratory results, and instrument control and record-keeping.
  • Understand and apply requirements, specifications, and qualification and validation for construction and maintenance of facilities, utilities, and equipment.
  • Understand requirements of sterile and nonsterile manufacturing processes and be able to analyse master and completed batch records, material control procedures, and contamination controls
  • Evaluate automated or computerized systems, and apply business continuity plans, disaster recovery techniques, and change management.
  • Apply and evaluate stability and sample retention programs.
  • Create and evaluate filling, packaging, and labelling operations and controls.

Course Chapters

  • Chapter 1- Introduction to Course
  • Chapter 2- Introduction to Good Manufacturing
  • Chapter 3. Regulatory Agency Governance Part I
  • Chapter 4. Regulatory Agency Governance Part II
  • Chapter 5. Regulatory Agency Governance Part III
  • Chapter 6. Quality Management System
  • Chapter 7. Quality Unit (Site) and Risk Management
  • Chapter 8. Training, change Management and CAPA
  • Chapter 9. Audits and Self-Inspections
  • Chapter 10. Documents and Records Management
  • Chapter 11. Product Quality Complaints and Trend Requirements
  • Chapter 12. Supplier and Contractor Quality Management
  • Chapter 13. Laboratory Investigations of Atypical Results
  • Chapter 14. Instrument Management and Specification
  • Chapter 15. Laboratory Record-Keeping and Handling Controls
  • Chapter 16. Stability Programs and Reserve Samples & Retains
  • Chapter 17 Facilities and Classrooms
  • Chapter 18 Utilities and Equipments
  • Chapter 19 Qualification and validations
  • Chapter 20 Metrological System and General Cleaning
  • Chapter 21 Computerize systems and Business Continuity Management Systems
  • Chapter 22 Material Management and supply chain Part I
  • Chapter 23 Material Management and supply chain Part II
  • Chapter 24. Sterile and Non Sterile Manufacturing System
  • Chapter 25 Filing, Packaging, Labeling Part I
  • Chapter 26 Filing, Packaging, Labeling Part II
  • Chapter 27 Product Development and Technology Transfer

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