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Medical Technology Vigilance, Post-Market Surveillance and Risk Management

Short course

In Bedfordshire ()

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Short course

Course structure The course will be delivered in the form of a three-day residential workshop including lectures and practical sessions. Accompanying lecture notes, will be supplied and support the course throughout.

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Subjects

  • Surveillance
  • Risk
  • Risk Management
  • Market
  • Technology
  • Medical
  • Medical training
  • IT risk

Course programme

What you will learn On completion of the three-day course delegates should be able to:
  • Define the requirements and describe the guidance notes for Post Market Surveillance (PMS) sufficiently well to critically design a PMS system appropriate to defined products
  • Describe the requirements and guidance notes for vigilance sufficient to write and operate a vigilance procedure which would meet regulatory requirements
  • Describe the principles and practice of risk management as set out in ISO 14971 to a level where they can apply it to a complex medical device within the range of the student’s technical competence.

Core content Topics covered by the course include:
  • European Regulatory requirements for PMS, including recalls and vigilance
  • Responsibility for PMS: Competent Authorities, Notified Bodies and manufacturers
  • Other Regulatory requirements – eg. US Medical Device Reports (MDRs)
  • Guidance documents for PMS, including Commission, Notified Body and Competent Authority documents
  • Key elements of PMS – reactive and pro-active
  • Tailoring PMS systems to specific products, including In Vitro Diagnostics (IVDs)
  • Principles of ISO 14971 “Application of risk management to medical devices”
  • Requirements of ISO13485, Quality Management Systems standard
  • Feedback of PMS data into the risk management process
  • Exchange of information: PMS databases eg. MAUDE and EUDAMED
  • Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF) Study Group II.

Medical Technology Vigilance, Post-Market Surveillance and Risk Management

Price on request