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FDA Calling: US Agency Again Asks Companies To Open Doors For Educational Purposes

In its continuing bid to better understand how industry and other stakeholders operate in the real world and learn to improve its own practices, FDA is again asking volunteers to let staffers come observe organizations for a day or two as part of the device center's Experiential Learning Program.

US FDA is again asking stakeholders to open their doors to agency officers to observe how the device industry health-care organizations work in the real world. In the latest iteration of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health's Experiential Learning Program (ELP), the agency is specifically looking for its staff to gain more insight in areas including combination products, software and clinical trials.

CDRH is asking companies, academic organizations, clinical facilities, device incubators and accelerators, health insurers, health technology assessment groups, and other...

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