ISO 13485:2016 Lead Implementer Training

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Full 40-hour medical-device QMS implementation course: 40 complete text lessons, device-lifecycle case evidence, seven written practical quizzes, five knowledge checks, a 40-question final exam and four implementation assignments. Includes an individually observed leadership workshop and controlled final capstone.

LO01: Explain the medical-device QMS, determine regulatory roles and document justified scope.
LO02: Design the process architecture, controlled documentation, records and project governance.
LO03: Establish policy, objectives, management responsibilities, competence and controlled facilities.
LO04: Translate requirements and product risks into design, verification, validation, transfer and change controls.
LO05: Qualify, contract, monitor and change suppliers using product risk and performance evidence.
LO06: Establish production controls, validation, identification, traceability and product preservation.
LO07: Control measurement, release, feedback, complaint handling and reporting decisions.
LO08: Evaluate implementation and lead evidence-based management decisions.
LO09: Contain problems, investigate causes, verify action effectiveness and manage improvement.
LO10: Deliver a resourced roadmap, evaluate readiness, hand over ownership and defend an integrated implementation.

Course Content

Foundations, regulatory roles and scope
Explain the medical-device QMS, determine regulatory roles and document justified scope.

Medical-device quality and the lead implementer role
Reading the standard and identifying applicable requirements
Regulatory roles, customer requirements and market access
Scope, justified applicability and baseline gap assessment
Practical 01: Scope and regulatory applicability

QMS processes, documentation and implementation governance
Design the process architecture, controlled documentation, records and project governance.

Leadership, competence and infrastructure
Establish policy, objectives, management responsibilities, competence and controlled facilities.

Realization planning and design controls
Translate requirements and product risks into design, verification, validation, transfer and change controls.

Purchasing and supplier controls
Qualify, contract, monitor and change suppliers using product risk and performance evidence.

Production, validation and traceability
Establish production controls, validation, identification, traceability and product preservation.

Measurement, feedback and regulatory escalation
Control measurement, release, feedback, complaint handling and reporting decisions.

Internal audit, management review and leadership
Evaluate implementation and lead evidence-based management decisions.

Nonconformity, corrective and preventive action
Contain problems, investigate causes, verify action effectiveness and manage improvement.

Integrated implementation and readiness
Deliver a resourced roadmap, evaluate readiness, hand over ownership and defend an integrated implementation.

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Course Content

Foundations, regulatory roles and scope Explain the medical-device QMS, determine regulatory roles and document justified scope.

Medical-device quality and the lead implementer role

Reading the standard and identifying applicable requirements

Regulatory roles, customer requirements and market access

Scope, justified applicability and baseline gap assessment

Practical 01: Scope and regulatory applicability

QMS processes, documentation and implementation governance Design the process architecture, controlled documentation, records and project governance.

Process architecture and risk-based QMS controls

Quality manual, medical device file and document control

Record integrity, retention and QMS software validation

Implementation charter, governance and project controls

Practical 02: QMS architecture and information controls

Knowledge check 1: modules 1–2

Leadership, competence and infrastructure Establish policy, objectives, management responsibilities, competence and controlled facilities.

Management commitment, quality policy and customer focus

Objectives, responsibilities and management representative

Competence, awareness and effective training

Infrastructure, work environment and contamination control

Practical 03: Leadership and resource implementation

Realization planning and design controls Translate requirements and product risks into design, verification, validation, transfer and change controls.

Product realization planning and product risk management

Design planning, inputs, outputs and design review

Design verification, validation and transfer

Design changes, configuration and design-development files

Practical 04: Realization risk and design-control pack

Knowledge check 2: modules 3–4

Purchasing and supplier controls Qualify, contract, monitor and change suppliers using product risk and performance evidence.

Supplier segmentation and qualification

Purchasing information and written quality agreements

Verification of purchased product and supplier monitoring

Supplier changes, outsourced processes and continuity of control

Practical 05: Supplier qualification and purchasing controls

Production, validation and traceability Establish production controls, validation, identification, traceability and product preservation.

Controlled production and release records

Process validation and sterile-device controls

Identification, traceability, customer property and preservation

Cleanliness, installation, servicing and production software

Production, validation and traceability implementation pack

Knowledge check 3: modules 5–6

Measurement, feedback and regulatory escalation Control measurement, release, feedback, complaint handling and reporting decisions.

Monitoring and measuring equipment and software

Process monitoring, product acceptance and data quality

Feedback and complaint handling

Regulatory reporting, advisory notices and escalation

Practical 07: Measurement, complaints and reporting

Internal audit, management review and leadership Evaluate implementation and lead evidence-based management decisions.

Internal audit programme and process-based audit trails

Findings, evidence grading and readiness evaluation

Management review inputs, outputs and decisions

Leading difficult QMS decisions and cross-functional action

Observed QMS leadership and management-review workshop

Knowledge check 4: modules 7–8

Nonconformity, corrective and preventive action Contain problems, investigate causes, verify action effectiveness and manage improvement.

Nonconforming product before and after delivery

Rework, correction and defensible cause analysis

Corrective action, effectiveness and closure

Preventive action, trend analysis and maintaining effectiveness

Nonconformity, CAPA and preventive-action portfolio

Integrated implementation and readiness Deliver a resourced roadmap, evaluate readiness, hand over ownership and defend an integrated implementation.

A resourced implementation roadmap and acceptance gates

Certification readiness and credible external claims

Integrated product-risk and implementation decisions

Operational handover, maintenance and continuing ownership

Practical 10: Integrated implementation roadmap

Knowledge check 5: modules 9–10

Final knowledge examination: ISO 13485 implementation

Controlled final implementation capstone

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