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

Learning management systems help pharma companies keep staff training current and prove it. They offer plenty of features but also have limits, and building training curricula in an LMS is poorly understood and takes far longer than most people expect, especially when training is a side responsibility.

This 90-minute interactive LMS webinar explains what a true pharma curriculum is and isn't, the requirements for curricula, and why setting them up is so complicated. You'll learn how to gather the job function details you need, create curricula that are intuitive for employees and use LMS features well.

The session also covers common problems when fighting the LMS, audit considerations, and where onboarding ends and job training begins.

• Explain what makes up a pharma curriculum
• Distinguish a true pharma curriculum from common misconceptions
• Work with peers and management to set up curricula
• Gather the job function details needed for curricula
• Create curricula that are intuitive for employees
• Demonstrate training compliance to auditors through effective curricula

• What a true pharma curriculum is and is not
• Requirements for pharma curricula
• Why setting up curricula is so complicated
• Obtaining employee job function details for curricula
• Creating intuitive curricula
• Fighting the LMS: common issues
• Using LMS functionality
• Audit considerations
• Onboarding vs job training for new or transferred employees

Compliance, quality culture and work culture all shape your training program. Onboarding new or transferred employees is your one chance at a first impression, and simple steps can keep it both successful and compliant.

This session suits LMS administrators, trainers, training managers, subject matter experts, regulatory, QA and audit managers, quality analysts and consultants who create or manage pharma training curricula.

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.