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Remote audit opening meeting – 5 changes

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This article describes five minor adjustments that lead auditors should make when they plan a remote audit opening meeting.

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Regardless of whether you are conducting an on-site audit or a remote audit, the first activity conducted during the audit is an opening meeting. The process for conducting opening meetings is defined in ISO 19011:2018, Clause 6.4.3, and it is the responsibility of the lead auditor to lead this meeting. There are three purposes to the opening meeting:

  1. confirm agreement to the audit plan,
  2. introduce the roles of the audit team, and
  3. ensure the audit can be conducted as planned.

Opening meeting checklists

There is a long list of items that are typically confirmed during the opening meeting. New auditors are trained to rely upon an opening meeting checklist to ensure that none of the things on the list are accidentally forgotten. Some auditors will depend on a formal presentation during an opening meeting, but usually, this requires more time to set-up. Therefore, most auditors work from a pre-written checklist on their computer or paper.

Change #1: Presentations replace checklists in a remote audit opening meeting

If you are conducting a remote opening meeting, most of the attendees will be looking at a computer screen. The lead auditor can share their screen as they go through a formal presentation, without wasting any set-up time during the opening meeting. Also, attendees can be emailed the presentation before the opening meeting, along with the audit plan. If you are the lead auditor planning a remote audit, you should use an opening meeting presentation template to make sure that none of the items in clause 6.4.3 are skipped. If your company is developing a work instruction for conducting audits remotely, you should create a controlled template to ensure consistency among auditors. This should also be done for closing meetings. You can learn more about conducting opening and closing meetings in our webinar on May 14, 2020.

Change #2: Every audit team member should create a personal slide

One of the challenges of being remote is that you have trouble establishing rapport with the auditees. To overcome this challenge, you should use live video to show your face, smile, and say hello to auditees. It would help if you also created a slide for the opening meeting presentation that includes a personal picture that conveys your congenial character and less formality. You should also include your preferred method(s) of contact during the audit, such as email address, mobile phone number, or Slack @username. If you are part of a team, you should also present the slide(s) that explain which process areas you will be responsible for auditing. If you have any special needs, such as vision or hearing impairment, you should also indicate how you prefer auditees to communicate with you.

Change #3: Edit the agenda during the remote audit opening meeting

Auditors confirm the planned agenda with the auditees during the opening meeting, but adjustments to the schedule are typical of remote and on-site audits. At most on-site opening meetings, everyone will have a hardcopy of the agenda and make notes on their agenda to reflect schedule changes. It is the responsibility of the lead auditor to distribute an updated version of the revised agenda and to include the updated agenda with the audit report. However, in a remote audit opening meeting, the lead auditor should share a copy of the agenda with everyone in a software tool like Google Docs(see below). When changes are made, switch screen sharing from your presentation to the agenda. You can make the changes in view of all attendees. Also, if you share the document with auditees, they can correct errors in the audit agenda for you (e.g., the spelling of names) and often with greater efficiency than giving you a verbal explanation of the changes.

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Change #4: Verify meeting invitations are updated at the end of the opening meeting

When there is an audit team conducting a remote audit, each auditor should send out a separate meeting invitation and include the lead auditor. This is important because each of the auditors needs to be able to audit simultaneously, but they may need the lead auditor to join their segment of the audit briefly. When changes are made to the audit agenda, such as changing the sequence of process areas being sampled, the time of the invitations needs to be updated for everyone involved. The lead auditor should verify that all of the invitations on their calendar match the updated agenda.

Change #5: Record your remote audit opening meetings (and closing meetings)

Recordings document critical information that might not be captured in the notes of the lead auditor while they are presenting. Therefore, requesting permission to record an opening and closing meeting of an audit is recommended. More importantly, if anyone is absent, the recording can be shared with that person. Finally, recordings allow you to “replay” mistakes and successes. The ability to replay the meeting, and observe yourself, is an invaluable tool for lead auditors in training and anyone that wants to improve.  

How long should your opening meeting be?

Audits are challenging to complete on-time, and therefore shorter opening meetings are desirable. However, the opening meeting is also dependent upon the scope of activities being audited and the number of audit team members. A duration of 30 minutes is typical for an on-site audit, but the opening meetings are often preceded by casual discussion and informal greetings. Teleconference calls and video chat meetings are less conducive to informal greetings because it is difficult for two people to speak at the same time. The remote meetings also seem more likely to start on-time. Therefore, you should expect a remote audit opening meeting to be more efficient (i.e., shorter).

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Changes triggered by COVID19 in your quality system

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The 2020 global pandemic has changed life as we know it, but this article focuses on three crucial quality system changes triggered by COVID19.

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Last night my daughter Gracie mentioned that her teacher assigned an essay to write about three changes triggered by COVID19 in her life. The three things that she felt had changed the most were: 1) she goes to bed much later, and sleeps in every day; 2) her school is closed, and she only talks to her teacher twice per week via Zoom, and 3) she misses her friends. I know that her story is similar to my son Bailey who is in his Freshman year of college, and I know that my personal story is quite similar. Coincidentally, I started writing this article earlier this week about three significant-quality system changes triggered by COVID19:

  1. If you are going to conduct on-site audits, you need to ask about using personal protective equipment (PPE).
  2. There needs to be a greater focus on business continuity plans and robust supply chain monitoring.
  3. Remote audits are suddenly encouraged for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd-party audits.

Changes triggered by COVID19: #1 Use Face Masks

US FDA Issues EUAs

At the beginning of the COVID19 pandemic, the US FDA created several emergency use authorizations (EUA). The three EUA areas were IVD testing, ventilators, and face masks. The EUA for IVD testing is not surprising, because the FDA issues and EUA every time a new lethal and contagious virus emerges (e.g., Zika and Ebola). The EUA for ventilators was issued because the number of people with respiratory issues was expected to explode with the spread of the virus, and the supply chain for components of ventilators had already been disrupted by the initial spread of the virus in China. The EUA for face masks was issued because it is the second-best way to protect people from the virus, and existing infrastructure for face mask production could not possibly supply the entire world with face masks overnight.

Everyone in the World Gets a Face Mask

As soon as the EUA for face masks was issued, every regulatory consultant in the USA was inundated with urgent requests for help to complete EUA requests for masks. I also received similar requests for assistance with Canadian filings. The FDA did a great job of providing detailed information about the different types of face masks (i.e., face masks, surgical face masks, and N95 respirators). Testing companies created new website pages specifically for each of the different face mask tests, and every company with a sewing machine suddenly wanted to manufacture masks. I even read an article about an elderly woman making face masks for her entire family while she listened to The Beatles “HELP!” in the background.

Why aren’t you wearing your face mask?

Even after the world makes the first 7 billion face masks, not everyone will wear their face masks. Masks will protect us from touching our hands to our face–which spreads many germs in addition to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Masks will also keep us from coughing on other objects and people if we have the virus. Finally, face masks protect us from the small droplets that carry the virus from one person to the next. Even though there are obvious safety reasons for everyone in the world to wear a face mask, most people don’t want to wear a face mask. This is no different from the argument to wear a seat belt, and unless our government creates a law or temporary order requiring us to wear face masks, most people won’t bother to wear one.

Changes triggered by COVID19: Auditors need to wear face masks 

As a medical device auditor, I feel I must always follow the safety rules in every facility I visit. Lead auditors are supposed to contact the company ahead of time and ask about the safety policies as part of audit preparation and initiating the audit. I’m 6’6” (2.00m) in height, and my shoe size is 14. There is seldom gowning for me to wear that fits appropriately–especially in Southeast Asia. I squeeze into the garments, and they are uncomfortable and hot, but I wear the garments anyway. My job includes auditing clean rooms, and I can’t do my job without gowning up. By following the rules, I also eliminate the excuses for anyone in the facility I visit. Now that we have a global pandemic, you should be wearing a face mask in every medical device facility to protect yourself, people you work with, and users of medical devices. You should also consider carrying spare face masks with you to protect yourself on airplanes, in hotels, etc.

Changes triggered by COVID19: #2 Business Continuity Plans

Will business continuity plans be required now?

In addition to the cultural shift to wearing face masks, we will also need to make significant changes in our overall preparations for natural disasters, fires, and biological threats. Although there is no specific requirement for a business continuity plan in ISO 13485:2016, there are many places where an auditor can identify a requirement to maintain the effectiveness of a quality system (no exceptions):

  1. Clause 1, Scope
  2. Clause 4.1.1 & 4.1.3, General Quality System Requirements
  3. Clause 5.3, Quality Policy
  4. Clause 5.4.2, Quality management system planning
  5. Clause 5.6.3, Management Review Output
  6. Clause 6.1, Provision of resources
  7. Clause 8.1, General requirements for Measurement, analysis, and improvement
  8. Clause 8.2.4, Internal audit
  9. Clause 8.5.1, General Improvement

Although any of these clauses could potentially be referenced as a requirement for a business continuity plan, the last clause would generally be the most appropriate. This clause states, “The organization shall identify and implement any changes necessary to ensure and maintain the continued suitability, adequacy and effectiveness of the quality management system…”. In this time of radical change, adding provisions to your business continuity plan for coping with a global biological threat seems obvious and urgently needed.

Suggested content for your business continuity plan

Sadly, the USA was probably better prepared for a disaster in the 1960s after the Cuban Missile Crisis than we are today. If you do not yet have a business continuity plan, or if you need suggestions for improving your plan, the following is a list of suggested items to include in your plan:

  1. Develop a plan for power outages, fires, floods, earthquakes, severe wind/tornadoes, hurricanes, workplace violence, and biological threats 
  2. Develop an emergency alert system to notify employees of any emergency
  3. Build emergency kits and store the kits for when they are needed
  4. Document your plan in multiple formats (virtual and physical) and distribute to all employees–including a social media plan
  5. Translate your plan into multiple languages for non-English speaking employees
  6. Develop a training program that addresses the various aspect of emergency preparation
  7. Practice your plan just like fire drills, so everyone is prepared and nobody panics

The Ready.gov website has many resources for the above items, including a series of “Ready Business Videos” and “Ready Business Toolkits.”

How to practice your business continuity plans

My sister is a teacher, and she is in the process of opening a new charter school in Maine. We were discussing her planning for the school, and the disruption of schools by the COVID19 pandemic has challenged all teachers to learn to use distance learning. My sister’s school focuses on teaching children about the environment, and she doesn’t like to spend lots of time on the computer. I was sharing some of the environmental studies my daughters are receiving via Zoom from their teachers. I suggested that she might want to pick one topic each week to teach via distance learning. The purpose of this would be to give her, and her students practice using distance learning for a variety of subjects. Therefore, when we experience another biological disaster, her students will already know precisely how to use distance learning to continue their education. My argument was that this routine use of distance learning would be a more effective preparation for emergencies than a once-per-month “fire drill.” Companies should use the same approach. Your company should create a schedule for practicing remote management meetings and working from home. This will ensure that systems are in place to keep your business running smoothly when disaster strikes again.

Changes triggered by COVID19: Expect regulators to require business continuity plans

The widespread shortage of face masks, ventilators, and other critical supplies needed during the COVID19 pandemic is going to result in new regulations requiring business continuity plans. This is a certainty born from the observation that every single medical device regulation we have resulted from severe public health threats. The COVID19 pandemic is the biggest global health crisis the world has experienced in 100 years. Therefore, we can expect corrective actions in the form of new regulations requiring companies to have a business continuity plan. Some regulators will act independently, but I would expect this also to be an action taken by the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF). We can also expect there to be new laws requiring amendments to business continuity plans for public companies. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires public companies in the USA to have business continuity plans. Despite this requirement, many public companies have been ruined by the COVID19 pandemic. Therefore, we should expect amendments to these requirements and revisions to the international standard for business continuity planning (i.e., ISO 22301:2019). We should also expect to see new interest in becoming certified to this standard.

Changes triggered by COVID19: #3 Remote Auditing

What are certification bodies doing about surveillance audits and re-certification audits?

Most of the companies that had initial certification audits scheduled for the first quarter of 2020 were forced to reschedule their audits because the employees must work from home, and the certification bodies must conduct at least some of their audits on-site. The FDA was also forced to cancel all foreign inspections temporarily. However, companies that already have certification need surveillance audits and re-certification audits to maintain the validity of their quality system certificates. Therefore, certification bodies now have plans for conducting audits remotely. For companies that virtual medical device manufacturers, certification bodies can conduct full quality system audits remotely. However, manufacturers with production activities on-site are only able to conduct partial audits. The certification bodies must still conduct on-site audits, but they are being permitted six months to conduct an on-site audit to cover the gaps remaining from the partial remote audits. Prior to conducting the partial remote audits, certification bodies are sending out questionnaires to all of their clients to gather information about whether the manufacturers can support a remote audit and to what degree.

Second-party audits conducted remotely

Second-party audits, also known as supplier audits, have always been of interest for manufacturers to conduct remotely–mainly if the supplier is located overseas. The US FDA regulations do not require companies to conduct supplier audits. However, if there are quality problems with suppliers, you are expected to conduct a thorough investigation to identify the root cause of quality problems, in most cases, that require an on-site audit. However, if your suppliers are providing good quality and they are ISO 13485:2016 certified, then you probably are using this as a justification for not conducting on-site audits or at least reducing the frequency of those audits. Now that most people are not able to travel, or because the people you need to speak with are working from home, manufacturers are being forced to conduct remote audits. This has always been permitted, but the effectiveness of remote audits is often questioned. Supply chain disruptions are now a global issue that is impacting the safety and effectiveness of our hospitals, and regulators will expect you to improve the rigor of your supplier evaluations–including conducting more supplier audits. Therefore, establishing more effective procedures for remote supplier auditing is urgently needed.

Changes triggered by COVID19: We need to develop procedures for remote auditing

Although most first-party audits are conducted on-site, especially if conducted by employees of your company, we will still need to establish procedures for remote auditing for internal audits. Some of our client’s scheduled internal audits for April and May that they had to cancel because they were unable to access the records needed for the audit while they were working from home. In addition, most of the US States have implemented stay-at-home audits that prevent our team from traveling to our clients. This is forcing our team to develop more robust procedures for remote auditing. We needed to change our audit agendas to accommodate eight 90-minute audit sessions in four days, instead of conducting two full days of on-site auditing. We are also doing more preparation before the audit to allow the auditees time to scan paper records so that we can review those records remotely. Finally, we are experimenting with techniques for collaboration as an audit team so that multiple auditors can simultaneously audit a client and complete a full quality system audit more quickly without forcing any one person to work for longer than 90 minutes in front of a computer. We are still perfecting these new methods, but we are writing a series of articles on this topic. You can order the book from Amazon ($5 pre-order discount until August 28, 2020).

Thank you & Future Articles

Thank you for reading. This is the longest article we have published on our site since 2012. This article also kicks off a ten-part blog series specific to remote auditing techniques:

  1. Remote audit opening meeting – 4 changes – May 12
  2. Audit team communications – May 19
  3. Remote audit resources – software and hardware tools – May 26
  4. How to apply a risk-based auditing approach to audits and remote audits – June 2
  5. How to make a supplier questionnaire for remote auditing – June 25
  6. Remote audit duration less than 90 minutes – June 30
  7. Remote auditing work instruction – July 14
  8. Planning partial remote audits – July 21
  9. Remote audit invitations – 4 things to remember – August 4
  10. Training new audit team members and lead auditors – August 11

There are also five new live webinars planned on related topics:

  1. Opening Meetings Webinar (free) – May 14, 2020
  2. Audit team communication during a remote audit (free) – June 4, 2020
  3. How to qualify your supplier’s Webinar (pre-order by June 1) – June 25, 2020
  4. Remote auditing techniques webinar (pre-order by July 1) – July 16, 2020
  5. MDSAP Certification Body Interviews (free) – August 6, 2020

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What is a Gap Analysis?

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This article describes what a gap analysis is in the context of managing your quality system when standards and regulations are updated.

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What is a Gap Analysis? An introductory look.

Well, that depends on the context. The dictionary definition is “A technique that businesses use to determine what steps need to be taken in order to move from its current state to its desired, future state. Also called need-gap analysis, needs analysis, and needs assessment.” (http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/gap-analysis.html). 

For the most part, this is correct, but we need to tweak it just a little bit to fit better into our regulatory affairs niche, specifically medical device manufacturers. A Gap Analysis for financial investment or an advertising firm will be very different than one for a medical device distributor. It might even be better served to be called a Compliance Assessment/Gap Analysis, but I am sure someone else has thought of that long before me.

For our purposes, the Gap Analysis is a formal comparative review of an internal process or procedure against a standard, good practice, law, regulation, etc. This blog article will be an introductory look into that process.

What are the two BIG goals of a Gap Analysis?

It sounds like a simple exercise, but the Gap Analysis or GA for short can have two very different but complementary functions. Rather than simply hunting for areas of non-compliance, the first goal is to find and demonstrate areas of compliance. 

The second more obvious goal is to find the gaps between the process and the regulatory requirements they are being compared against. 

Why is demonstrating compliance important?

Because this is a formal documented review, a Gap Analysis provides documentation in a traceable manner of meeting the requirements that have been laid out. That traceability is important because it allows anyone to read the report, see the requirement, and locate the area of the procedure that demonstrates conformity with that requirement. 

The report itself is an objective tool, not something that is meant to be a witch hunt. The Gap Analysis will compare document contents. If you want to verify that the entire process is fully compliant, you will need to dig deeper and observe if the activities laid out within the procedure are being performed per the procedure instructions. It is possible to draft procedures that are compliant with text requirements but non-compliant in the manner that the actions are being performed and documented.

What about gaps?

The gaps, or areas of non-compliance highlight opportunities for improvement, if there are any. A Gap Assessment may not find any gaps and present a report that clearly and neatly outlines and explains how each regulatory requirement is being met. 

If there are any gaps identified, that does not mean that there is cause for concern. This should be viewed instead as an opportunity for improvement. Standards and procedures change over time, and, naturally, procedures and processes will have to change with them.

The very act of the Gap Analysis shows that there is a documented effort towards continual improvement as long as the gaps are addressed. 

Addressing the Gaps

The report is ideally the first and last step, and you have a wonderful piece of paper to show that someone checked, and all of the required areas are being met. However, this is not always the case. When there are gaps, they must be filled.

Addressing a gap should happen in a traceable manner, one that shows it was identified, acknowledged, and then how it was fixed. Something that might be addressed through a CAPA process, but that is a topic for a different time. 

In Closing

The Compliance Assessment/Gap Analysis is a singular tool used in the overall maintenance of a quality system. Its actions and performance are similar to a simplified type of audit, but the Gap Analysis itself is not going to replace your regularly scheduled audit activities. However, it will help you monitor and keep your fingers on the overall pulse of your quality system. This is also especially helpful in situations where standards and regulations are updated, and your quality system needs to be evaluated and updated accordingly.

For more in-depth education in specialized areas of the assessment, look into our training on Technical File Auditing for MDR compliance against Regulation (EU) 2017/745 at the link below.

https://medicaldeviceacademy.com/technical-file-auditing/

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Auditing Technical Files

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This article explains what to look at and what to look for when you are auditing technical files to the new Regulation (EU) 2017/745 for medical devices.

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On August 8th, 2019, we recorded a live webinar teaching you what to look at and what to look for when you are auditing technical files (a link for purchasing the webinar is at the end of this article). Technical files are the technical documentation required for CE Marking of medical devices. Most quality system auditors are trained on how to audit to ISO 13485:2016 (or an earlier version of that standard), but very few quality system auditors have the training necessary to audit technical files.

Why you’re not qualified to auditing technical files

If you are a lead auditor, you are probably a quality manager or a quality engineer. You have experience performing verification testing and validation testing, but you have not prepared a complete technical file yourself. You certainly can’t describe yourself as a regulatory expert. You are a quality system expert. A couple of webinars on the new European regulations are not enough to feel confident about exactly what the content and format of a technical file for CE marking should be.

Creating an auditing checklist

Most auditors attempt to prepare for auditing the new EU medical device regulations by creating a checklist. The auditor copies each section of the regulation into the left column of a table. Then the auditor plans to fill in the right-hand columns of the table (i.e., the audit checklist), with the records they looked at and what they looked for in the records. Unfortunately, if you have never created an Essential Requirements Checklist (ERC) before, you can only write in your audit notes that the checklist was completed and what the revision date is. How would you know if the ERC was correctly completed?

In addition to the ERC, now called the Essential Performance and Safety Requirements (i.e., Annex I of new EU regulations), you also need to audit all the Technical Documentation requirements (i.e., Annex II), all the Technical Documentation on Post-Market Surveillance (i.e., Annex III), and the Declaration of Conformity (i.e., Annex IV). These four annexes are 19 pages long. If you try to copy and paste each section into an audit checklist, you will have a 25-page checklist with more than 400 things to check. The result will be a bunch of checkboxes marked “Yes,” and your audit will add no value.

Audits are just samples

Every auditor is trained that audits are just samples. You can’t review 100% of the records during an audit. You can only sample the records as a “spot check.” The average technical file is more than 1,000 pages long, and most medical device manufacturers have multiple technical files. A small company might have four technical files. A medium-sized company might have 20 technical files, and a large device company might have over 100 files. (…and you thought the 177-page regulation was long.)

Instead of checking many boxes, “Yes,” you should look for specific things in your audit records. You also need a plan for what records to audit. Your plan should focus on the essential records and any problem areas identified during previous audits. You should always start with a list of the previous problem areas because there should be corrective actions that were implemented, and the effectiveness of corrective actions needs to be verified.

Which records are most valuable when auditing technical files?

I recommend selecting 5-7 records to sample. My choices would be: 1) the ERC checklist, 2) the Declaration of Conformity, 3) labeling, 4) the risk management file, 5) the clinical evaluation report, and 6) post-market surveillance reports, and 7) design verification and validation testing for the most recent design changes. You could argue that my choices are arbitrary, but an auditor can always ask the person they are planning to audit if these records would be the records that the company is most concerned about. If the person has other suggestions, you can change which records your sample. However, you don’t want to sample the same records every year. Try mixing it up each year by dropping the records that looked great the previous year, and adding a few new records to your list this year.

What to look for when auditing technical files

The first thing to look for when you audit records: has the record been updated as required? Some records have a required frequency for updating, while other records only need to be updated when there is a change. If the record is more than three years old, it is probably outdated. For clinical evaluation reports and post-market surveillance reports, the new EU regulations require updating these reports annually for implantable devices. For lower-risk devices, these reports should be updated every other year or once every three years at a minimum.

Design verification and design validation report typically only require revisions when a design change is made, but a device seldom goes three years without a single change–especially devices containing software. However, any EO sterilized product requires re-validation of the EO sterilization process at least once every two years. You also need to consider any process changes, supplier changes, labeling changes, and changes to any applicable harmonized standards.

Finally, if there have been any complaints or adverse events, then the risk management file probably required updates to reflect new information related to the risk analysis.

Which record should you audit first?

The ERC, or Essential Performance and Safety Requirements checklist, is the record you should audit first. First, you should verify that the checklist is organized for the most current regulations. If the general requirements end with section 6a, then the checklist has not been updated from the MDD to the new regulations–which contains nine sections in the general requirements. Second, you should make sure that the harmonized standards listed are the most current versions of standards. Third, you should ensure that the most current verification and validation reports are listed–rather than an obsolete reports.

More auditor training on technical files…

We recorded a live webinar intended to teach internal auditors and consultants how to perform a thorough audit of CE Marking Technical Files against the requirements of the new European regulations–Regulation (EU) 2017/745.

With access to this training webinar, we are also providing a native presentation slide deck, and an audit report template, including checklist items for each of the requirements in Annex I, II, III, and IV of the MDR.

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We also provide an exam (i.e., a 10-question quiz) to verify training effectiveness for internal auditors performing technical file auditing. If you submit the completed exam to us by email in the native MS Word format, we will correct the exam and email you a training certificate with your corrected exam. If you have more than one person that requires a training certificate, we charge $49/exam graded–invoiced upon completion of grading.

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Technical File Auditing for Compliance with MDR
This webinar provides an audit report template and teaches auditors how to conduct technical file auditing for compliance with Regulation (EU) 2017/745.
Price: $129.00

In addition to this webinar on auditing technical files, other training webinars are available. For example, we have a webinar on risk management training. If your firm is preparing for compliance with the new MDR, you might also be interested in the following information provided on this website:

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