RAPS Workshop: Clinical Evaluation for Medical Devices

This intensive 16-hour course, delivered across 4 half days, will give you an excellent grounding in the EU requirements for clinical evaluation.

Is clinical evaluation causing challenges for your organisation? Have you received feedback from your notified body that you're unsure how to address?

In this course, you will establish a strong foundation in the principles of clinical evaluation gaining the necessary knowledge, skills, and expertise to create compliant clinical documentation. Whether you are new to medical devices or looking to strengthen your current understanding, this course will give you an excellent grounding in the EU requirements for clinical evaluation.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand what equivalence is and whether you need it
  • Define what state of the art is and how it is used
  • Identify safety and performance parameters and how they are used
  • Understand how processes such as PMS and Risk Management link with clinical evaluation
  • Apply systematic methods to gather and appraise data
  • Construct your Clinical Evaluation Report to ensure compliance
  • Determine the level of sufficient evidence required for your CER
  • Locate and utilise available guidance
  • Be aware of the clinical evaluation requirements and how the type and class of a device has an impact

Who Should Attend?

This course is suitable for anybody that requires an understanding of clinical evaluation. A basic understanding would be advantageous.

Audience Learning Level

Basic: Content is introductory in nature and requires no requisite knowledge or experience to grasp concepts and related exercises. Basic educational activities are meant to establish a foundation of knowledge and/or competence that will be expanded upon in practice or in higher level activities.

Agenda

Time 

Topic

Online Self-Paced  
(Pre-Course)

  • What is Clinical Evaluation?
  • Definitions and Key Terminology
  • Clinical Evaluation Process

Day 1

  • Recap of the clinical evaluation process
  • Links to other processes
  • Clinical highlights of the MDR
  • Clinical Evaluation Plan & Purpose
  • Types of data and their sources

Day 2

  • Equivalence
  • Claims and their impact
  • General Safety & Performance Requirements (GSPRs)
  • Establishing State of the Art (SoTA)
  • Safety and performance outcome parameters

Day 3

  • Systematic Literature Search
  • Literature search tools (PICO & PRISMA)
  • Identification & selection of data
  • Appraisal & analysis of data
  • Understanding Bias

Day 4

  • Documenting the Clinical Evaluation Report (CER)
  • Post Market Clinical Follow-up (PMCF)
  • Summary of safety and clinical performance (SSCP)
  • Helpful guidance & best practices
  • Notified Body expectations

Cancellations and Refunds

RAPS reserves the right to cancel this program at its sole discretion. RAPS will not be responsible for travel or other costs incurred due to cancellation. All cancellation requests must be submitted in writing to [email protected]Cancellations will receive a full refund minus a 20% administrative fee. RAPS is unable to accept cancellations by phone.

Substitutions

Paid registration substitutions may be accepted with written approval from RAPS for requests received before the start of the event. To transfer a registration, email [email protected] with the event title, name of the original registrant and the contact information for the new attendee.

Proof of Attendance

A certificate of attendance can be downloaded from the RAPS Learning Portal following the event.

Questions

Contact the RAPS Support Center:
Call +1 301 770 2920, ext. 200 (8:30 am–5:30 pm EST, Monday–Friday) or email [email protected].

Speaker

Rod  Beuzeval

Rod Beuzeval

Principle Trainer, Leap Compliance

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