InhouseExcellence

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Effectiveness and cost savings through education of internal experts in the field of regulatory affairs.

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Outsource regulatory training to experts

With InhouseExcellence, medical device manufacturers can avoid high costs for external consultants and accelerate their development by increasing the expertise of their own employees. The service is aimed at employees of medical device manufacturers in the areas of regulatory affairs, quality management, development, product and project management, as well as consultants and notified bodies.

Benefits of education for medical device manufacturers

InhouseExcellence is a work-integrated continuing education programme that enables medical device manufacturers to

  • avoid regulatory problems such as warning letters, fines and delays in approval
  • reduce costs for external consultants
  • avoid QM bureaucracy and thus accelerate development projects
  • meet legal requirements, e.g. for continuous employee training, and increase the value of the company by building competence
  • develop successful products in less time through systematic engineering
  • increase employee motivation, thereby increasing their efficiency and reducing staff turnover, and
  • develop safer products, thereby saving costs for repairs or even recalls and the associated damage to the company's image.
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Training concept

InhouseExcellence combines various teaching methods so that participants can acquire the skills they need as quickly as possible to enable the rapid and standards-compliant development of safe, effective and usable medical devices, as well as lean and ‘audit-proof’ documentation. Without expensive external consultants.

InhouseExcellence expands the audit guarantee to include personalised and individual support in the form of face-to-face teaching, webinars and email support.

Medium Description Goals
Seminars In-person events typically offered by the instructors of the Johner Institut in Konstanz. Provide basic knowledge, foster group cohesion
Webinars Approximately 1-2 hour web conferences where participants can discuss with an instructor and conduct screen sharing. Answer questions, receive assistance with assignments, delve into topics
Video Trainings Participants automatically become members of Audit Guarantee, providing access to 60+ video trainings. Acquire domain knowledge, receive assistance with assignments
Assignments Tasks that participants are required to complete, ideally from their direct professional context. Create documents, review documents, analyze hazards, customize checklists for their own company, acquire competencies and practical experiences, carry out company tasks
Presence Phase Workshops lasting two to three days in Konstanz. Present participants' solutions, learn to assess others' results, delve into topics, answer questions, gain confidence in presenting
Mindmailers Email-based learning program that sends participants a multiple-choice task at an adjustable interval (e.g. every two days), where tasks adapt to individual learning progress. Recall learning material
Exams Approximately 3-hour examinations that, along with assignments, form the basis for grading. Ensure learning success
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Timeline of training

Participants adjust the intensity of their own qualification themselves, for example, to their workload and individual learning progress. One quarter or more should be estimated per module. The process shown in the adjacent figure is recommended for each module.

InhouseExcellence consists of the following modules

  • Software development & IEC 6230
  • Risk management & ISO 1497
  • Usability Engineering & IEC 6236
  • Quality Management & ISO 13485 and 21 CFR part 82
  • Other: Clinical Evaluation, IEC 60601 Standards Family, FDA ‘Guidances’

You can take these modules individually and independently of each other.

Overview of learning content

In the InhouseExcellence training course, participants learn

  • how to create software files in accordance with IEC 62304 and FDA requirements and how to verify this compliance (process description, software development plan, software requirements, software architecture, software testing, code reviews, etc.)
  • how to create usability files in accordance with IEC 62366 and FDA requirements and how to verify this compliance
  • how to create clinical evaluations in accordance with MEDDEV 2.7.1 and FDA requirements and how to verify this compliance
  • Check documentation on electrical safety, electromagnetic compatibility and other aspects of basic safety and essential performance characteristics for compliance with IEC 60601-1
  • Compile the files (technical documentation) for approval by various authorities and check them for compliance
  • Check quality management systems for compliance with ISO 13485 and 21 CFR part 820
  • Create, check and simplify development specifications (process descriptions, forms, etc.) and advise development departments in this regard.
[Translate to English:] Dokumente auf einem Tisch

Skills taught

The newly qualified experts will be able to use their expertise to

  • free up development from unnecessary regulatory tasks
  • increase the productivity of the development department through lean and precise documents
  • ensure product quality, thereby minimising costly rework, patient risk and regulatory consequences, and
  • systematically avoid approval and audit problems.

This means that participants acquire not only specialist knowledge but also methodological skills.

The training should be seamlessly integrated into everyday work and promote the work of future experts during their training rather than hindering it through absences.

Furthermore, the training programme aims to minimise the costs of external consultants and build up internal expertise, thereby increasing the value of employees and thus the company.

Target Group

InhouseExcellence is aimed at medical device manufacturers, consulting firms and notified bodies that wish to train their own employees in the areas of regulatory affairs, quality management and development. It is particularly suitable for employees who are or will be responsible for the following tasks:

  • Creating technical documentation for medical devices, especially for approval
  • Conducting or preparing internal and external audits
  • Developing (and documenting) medical devices
  • Developing or improving quality management systems (e.g. streamlining)
  • Defining or maintaining development processes (design controls)
  • Acting as a risk manager or safety officer
  • Conducting tests and approving products

The training is therefore not only aimed at employees in the Regulatory Affairs and Quality Management departments, but also explicitly at developers (architects, programmers, engineers, testers) as well as usability and requirements engineers. Employees who are responsible for project and process management are also part of the target group.

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Certificate upon completion

After successfully passing the exam, participants receive a certificate and a detailed assessment of their performance, highlighting their strengths and areas for improvement. This enables companies to meet the requirements of the FDA, among others, for employee qualification and continuous knowledge ‘refresher’ training.

 

We currently offer the training programme as a closed beta programme to a limited number of companies. Please contact us if you would like to learn more about InhouseExcellence.

 

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