Master Pharmaceutical Industry Audits

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This course will provide you with all the tools that you will need to become a professional pharma industry audit leader.

If you would consider the prestigious highly successful career of auditing either within your organization, if you are willing to start your career with, or if you want to consider the career of auditing for your own business, like most of the pharma industry professionals do these days to fulfill the modern business model requirements of outsourcing, as the cat as external audit leaders, so in all cases, you are in the right place to kick off your successful career in the pharma industry as an audit leader.

What will you learn?

  • Introduction

  • Audit

  • What is an Audit

  • Quality Audit

  • Audit Principles

  • Audit Checklist

  • Conducting and Audit

  • Non-Conformities

  • ICH

  • CAPA 

  • Risk Assessment

Auditing is an evaluation of a person, organization, system, process, enterprise, project, or product

Could be, financial, project management, quality management (Compliance), vigilance (Safety), regulatory, investigation, and finally trend analysis. focusing on the quality management audit, the kind of audit of great concern to most health authorities all over the world, followed by recently by the vigilance audit.

In this course we will cover everything about auditing, starting from the definition and why we do need auditing, different types of audits, such as first Party (Internal), second Party (Supplier), Third Party (External), and then who should participate in the audits? only auditors? or auditors and some professionals? who would be responsible for managing the audit, leading the audit, and finally closing the audit and writing the audit report? we will answer all these questions together along with our course.

Then we will explore together, what are the most common objectives of auditing. how to set these objectives and what is the set scope of such an audit? how to plan for an audit? how to manage an audit? to set an audit program and perform it? what are audit principles and approaches, prepare an audit checklist, how an audit workflow look like, and finally how to conduct an audit?

After auditing, do we have 2 probabilities of such an audit? if complied or not? what if nonconformities are reported as audit findings? how do manage these nonconformities? and how this is related to the ISO, and ICH Q10 Pharmaceutical Quality System (PQS)

From here it comes to the CAPA, the topic that has been mentioned in most of the pharma industry courses, we will go deeper into the CAPA, starting with why we need CAPA and when. Who should raise the CAPA? the CAPA phases, monitoring, and CAPA SOPs till coming up with the final CAPA report.

We will focus on common confusing terms of CAPA

we will differentiate between correction, corrective action, and preventive actions in the pharma industry

and will close the topic of CAPA by the automated CAPA through the CAPA software.

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Why This Course?

  • Learn directly from industry-experienced professionals

  • Gain practical knowledge backed by case studies and audit scenarios

  • Build confidence to face regulatory authority inspections

  • Improve your organization’s QMS, GMP compliance, and readiness

  • Enhance your professional credibility as a qualified auditor

Course Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will:
Understand the audit life cycle — from planning to closure
Be able to lead and participate in audits confidently
Know how to manage findings, deviations, and CAPAs
Strengthen your compliance culture and audit readiness
Advance your career in pharmaceutical quality and regulatory affairs

Let’s Get Started

Join us and master the art of pharmaceutical audits — a skill that every professional in the industry must have to ensure excellence, compliance, and trust.

Let’s take your auditing skills — and your career — to the next level!

The most important part of this course is the part titled

“What makes a good auditor?

In other words, what qualifies you to become an audit leader? how to become a professional audit leader?

To kick off your career

So let us start our journey toward auditing, my dear future audit leaders.

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What Will You Learn?

  • The purpose, principles, and types of pharmaceutical audits
  • Step-by-step audit preparation and execution process
  • Understanding Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) requirements
  • Internal and external audit management
  • How to handle regulatory inspections (FDA, EMA, MHRA, WHO, SFDA, etc.)
  • Supplier and third-party audits best practices
  • How to write effective audit reports and implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPA)
  • Key audit checklists, templates, and tools for real-world application
  • How to build a compliance-ready mindset across teams

Course Content

Module 1: Introduction to audit
Let's start our audit journey

  • Introduction to audit
    03:49

Module 2: What is an Audit?
In this section, you will learn what an audit is. Why do we audit? 3 major types of audits? What is the most common one of them in the pharma industry? expected outcomes. And what makes a good auditor?

Module 3: The Quality Audit
In this section, we will start our actual practice of applying audits in the pharma industry, and how it is linked to the QMS, different audits in modern business models, and how to plan for an audit

Module 4: The Audit Principles
In this section, we will understand the audit principles, audit approaches, the e approach versus the risk-based approaches, then how to manage an audit, and build up an audit program

Module 5: The Audit Checklist
In this section we will prepare for an actual audit, we will prepare the checklist for such an audit, understand the audit workflow, and see actual examples from practice

Module 6: Conducting an Audit
In this section we will conduct the audit, we will explore 3 options of conducting audit, and review of its documents

Module 7: Handling Nonconformities
This section is purely from practice, this is what pharma industry professional do in their daily wo comes to audits, and its common minor findings "non-conformities " and how to handle them

Module 8: ICH Q10
In this section we will get introduced to fundamentals of ICHQ 10

Module 9: CAPA
CAPA (Corrective and Preventive Action) – Detailed Introduction A Core Pillar of Pharmaceutical Quality the pharmaceutical industry, CAPA is not just a procedure

Module 10: Risk Assessment
In this closing section of our course, we will learn together the final stages of CAPA closing, CAPA probabilities, and writing the CAPA report, ending with the automated CAPA with its software

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