Using Learning Management Systems (LMS) to Develop Pharma Training: Rewards & Challenges

Learning Management Systems (LMS) are important tools for assuring and demonstrating that pharma companies maintain their staff training, and their efforts are up-to-date.  These systems often boast great functionality but also have limitations that must be overcome for companies to use them effectively.  A specific area that is not well understood is the development of training curricula in LMS systems, which presents its own unique challenges and takes far more time to implement than is commonly thought.  In addition, many of us have training as an ancillary responsibility and do not have the luxury of time to create and maintain a complex array of curricula.

If you and your colleagues want to maximize the benefits of a LMS and avoid the headaches, then join us for this 90-minute interactive session.

• Articulate what constitutes a Pharma curriculum
• Distinguish a true Pharma curriculum from common misconceptions regarding Pharma curricula
• Work 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 for employees
• Demonstrate training compliance to auditors through the effective use of curricula

• 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

Compliance considerations, your quality culture, and work culture are all important points of focus. Additionally, where does employee “onboarding” end and real “job training” start? Your onboarding effort is critical in so many other ways too, as it represents your only opportunity at a first impression, and allows you to shape early motivation for your new employees. Although many hiring managers and other supervisory personnel struggle with onboarding, there are simple steps you can take to ensure a successful and compliant program.

This course will address the issues that accompany onboarding new or transferred employees and enable you to navigate them successfully.

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

Michael Esposito has over 30 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry and 17 years’ experience in GMP training and document management. He has worked for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson's 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 Johnson & Johnson Consumer Healthcare and revised their introductory GMP course. He is a member of the training organizations GMP Training Educators Association and Association for GXP Excellence and is fully fluent in Spanish. His areas of interest include systems training, training effectiveness, post-training user support, process improvement, product security, and sustainable packaging.