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Scientific Professional Development at FDA

Audience Participating in Scientific Professional Development Lecture

Revolutionary discoveries in new areas of science, rapidly evolving technologies, and the globalization of FDA-regulated industry are profoundly affecting regulatory science and the way FDA carries out its mission. To meet the demands and fulfill the promise of these 21st-century advances, FDA recruits, develops, and retains highly skilled scientific and technical staff who can apply their leading-edge expertise to modernizing or creating new regulatory pathways.

In addition to recognizing our staff's accomplishments through merit and Scientific Achievement Awards, FDA ensures that our scientific and technical experts maintain the highest level of competence by offering them a broad range of scientific professional development opportunities. They include: 
 
  • participation in FDA training courses
  • lectures on cutting-edge research
  • clinical work in federal hospitals
  • research collaborations, and
  • exchanges with academia and other scientific institutions.  
 
FDA's academic partners, such as our Centers of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (Centers of Excellence), are critical to FDA efforts to promote faster and better scientific approaches to product development, manufacture, evaluation, and use so that new therapies get to people who need them when they need them. A key aim of these Centers of Excellence is to build mechanisms for staff training and scientific exchange, including supporting the continuing education (CE) needs of our physicians, pharmacists, nurses, veterinarians, and dentists. 
 
Professional development activities with CE credit include the offerings of hospitals affiliated with FDA's Georgetown University Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation. The Washington Hospital Center’s conferences and the Montgomery Medical Center Grand Rounds are just two examples.
 
Our scientific staff also benefit from lectures on FDA's White Oak campus that offer CE credit like the professional development activities of FDA's Medical Countermeasures initiative (MCMi). Online courses with CE credit are also available through partnerships with CDC and NIH disclaimer icon .
 
And FDA collaborations are broadening opportunities for professional development by making it possible for staff to conduct clinical work, teaching, or research off site. Area federal hospitals and clinics, like NIH and Walter Reed National Medical Center, provide patient care opportunities for FDA staff and academic partners, such as the Georgetown University Center of Excellence, disclaimer icon are making even more professional development opportunities available. 
  
 
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