Management Forum and NSF-DBA team up
To provide certification programmes to demonstrate medical device competence
Management Forum has teamed up with NSF-DBA, an expert in medical device professional training, to offer certification programmes that demonstrate the competence of development, regulatory and quality assurance personnel in the field of medical devices.
Management Forum has provided training courses in Medical Device Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance for more than 25 years and in recognition of its expertise in this field, NSF-DBA has approved several of its courses to enable students to gain a recognised certificate or diploma in Medical Device Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs (QARA).
NSF-DBA is best known for its Pharmaceutical Qualified Person (QP) training programme now into its 26th Year and in 2011 launched the sister qualification in the medical devices sector leading to this QARA diploma.
The diploma is an eight-module course enabling the student to undertake flexible training and learn the particular competencies necessary to act as a Qualified Person in the medical device industry. The qualifications offered by NSF-DBA specifically require students to demonstrate the application of their learning and therefore enable students who have studied previous courses, such as those offered by Management Forum, to submit their training portfolio as a means of demonstrating prior learning. This means that there are various fast-track options for Management Forum students wishing to achieve the QARA diploma.
Future courses with Management Forum will display a NSF-DBA Diploma/Certificate Fast-track approval so that attendees will know that they will count towards the NSF-DBA diploma and certificate programmes.
James Pink, partner for medical devices at NSF-DBA, said: ‘This is a very important partnership for NSF-DBA in that it enables medical device professionals who have studied respected and technically accurate training courses to gain recognition for the application of their learning. We have developed certification programmes in Medical Device Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Affairs, Quality Assurance and Safety that Management Forum courses fulfil.’
