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ForwardAventura, FL – January 17-19, 2025 | Non-sterile Compounding: Live Seminar and Hands-on Lab
NON-STERILE COMPOUNDING: Live Seminar and Hands-on Lab
Please note that the live stream will take place according to the local time, Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Day 1, 2 & 3 - 9:00am to 6:00pm EST
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Seminar
The seminar will cover four subsections:
- Business Basics highlights the importance for a compounding practice to build a unique identity and deliver consistent marketing messages. Participants will construct, assess, rehearse, and deliver marketing messages through written and verbal communication. Business Basics also explores financial management as the participant reviews start-up costs, acquisition costs and expenditures, selling prices, forecasted growth and expectations, and revenue stream generators. A two-year financial plan spreadsheet identifies cornerstones and milestones for the new and expanding compounding practice.
- Creating a Culture of Quality features implementation methods for regulatory guidelines, standards of practice, and standard operating procedures. Participants will learn how to establish a comprehensive action plan and documentation practices related to all aspects of a compounding practice.
- Compounding Calculations provides the participant the opportunity to learn and practice common pharmacy calculations, including, interpreting drug monographs, drug conversions, drug strength adjustments applying the certificate of analysis, capsule calculations, displacement calculations, stock concentrates and aliquots for powder blends and powder-in-liquid mixtures, among more.
- Scientific Principles teaches the participant how to ensure dosage form stability and suitability for the patient. The participant will learn to compound a medication by modifying its route of delivery and/or delivery system while optimizing drug bioavailability, patient safety and positive therapeutic outcomes. Scientific Principles also provides the participant the opportunity to apply a number of core concepts by assessing a series of clinical cases. It concludes with a comprehensive method for prescription assessment and clinical decision-making, both critical to a successful compounding practice.
Hands-on Lab
The hands-on lab training features a series of fundamental skills followed by the preparation of eight dosage forms. This hands-on experience gives the participant the opportunity to learn and practice general compounding lab processes and procedures, compounding techniques, operating electromechanical equipment, managing a workstation, documenting standard operating procedure logs, all while operating within a compounding facility and preparing non-sterile compounded medications.
Elements of a unique process experienced in the Virtual Seminar can now be realized in this Practical Lab, which serves as the basis for the development, and subsequent preparation of any non-sterile dosage form containing any appropriate active pharmaceutical ingredient. The unique elements include:
- Compounding by composition (i.e., powder blends, and powder-in-liquid mixtures in the form of solutions or dispersions)
- Preparatory states-of-matter and final dosage form states-of-matter (i.e., solids, semisolids and liquids)
- Routes of delivery and delivery systems
- Sites of administration and target sites of action
Featured Activities:
- Skills Development
- Weighing powders
- Measuring liquids
- Geometric Addition
- Clean transfers of semisolids
- Weight variance testing
- Organoleptic assessments
- Beyond-Use-Dating assignments
Featured Dosage Forms:
- Cellulose-based hydro-alcoholic gel in an actuated dispenser
- Oral transmucosal films using syringe-to-syringe mixing technique
- Capsules using 100-count capsule machine including aliquot calculation
- PEG-based troches including mold fill calculation
- Rapid dissolve tablets
- Oral suspension including pH step
- Suppositories using a 12-count flexible mold
- Topical cream emulsion, using an electronic blade mixer, mill and planetary motion mixer (no blades)
COURSE FORMAT
Seminar
Home Study (24 hours) pre-read that reviews fundamental concepts in non-sterile compounding to prepare you for the live event. To review the full activity description for the Home Study click here.
1.5-day live seminar (12 hours) that provides foundational training on non-sterile compounding - everything from business basics, to scientific principles such as dosage form stability and suitability, to performing pharmaceutical calculations, to implementing regulatory guidelines, standards of practice, SOPs, and much more.
Hands-on Lab
1.5-day hands-on lab (12 hours) where you will receive hands-on experience developing non-sterile compounding skills, and preparing eight (8) dosage forms. Each compounded dosage form concludes with a quantitative and qualitative assessment. Participants complete a self-directed learning assessment co-signed by the program facilitator.
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN
Seminar
This seminar is a highly interactive application-based program that strikes a careful balance between a patient-centric and business-centric approach for the learner. Facilitators complement the program by bringing a wealth of personal and professional expertise to the learner’s experience in these two approaches. The program concludes with a learning assessment, which provides feedback to the learner.
Hands-on Lab
The Hands-on Lab is a hands-on application-based compounding skills development session followed by the preparation of eight (8) dosage forms each with a unique chemical composition, routes of delivery and delivery system. The eight prepared compounded medications undergo a qualitative and quantitative assessment. The Practical Lab program learning assessment consists of an assessment of learned preparatory techniques, which includes those highlighted during the skills development session complemented by scores allocated to the qualitative and quantitative assessment results.
Intended audience
- Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacy Managers, Designated persons in positions of responsibility, and Quality Assurance & Quality Control officers looking to advance their practical non-sterile compounding skills related to any professional setting.
- Auditors / Inspectors looking to hone their assessment skills in concert with the standards described and detailed in this Activity.
Learning Objectives
Seminar
Pharmacists
- Assess, write and construct marketing messages and material.
- Practice delivering a unique marketing message through verbal communication.
- Evaluate a two-year financial spreadsheet for a non-hazardous and hazardous compounding practice.
- Assess acquisition costs and establish the selling price of compounded medications.
- Summarize regulatory guidelines and standards of practice for compounding.
- Demonstrate how to customize standard operating procedures.
- Compare standards of practice for non-hazardous to hazardous drug compounding.
- Design a collaborative compounding practice.
- Relate standards of practice and workflow dynamics to facility design models.
- Relate standard operating procedure competency and compliance with corrective action and preventive action.
- Demonstrate compounding calculations to increase accuracy and minimize medication error.
- Discover how to balance dosage form stability with the suitability of a compounded medication for a patient.
- Apply the concept of customization with appropriate compromise to a compounded medication.
- Relate dosage form design to bioavailability optimization, patient safety and a positive therapeutic outcome.
- Summarize the importance of the steps of a prescription assessment for compounding.
- Explain the importance of clinical decision-making processes in compounding.
Pharmacy Technicians
- Assess, write and construct marketing messages and material.
- Practice delivering a unique marketing message through verbal communication.
- Describe a two-year financial spreadsheet for a non-hazardous and hazardous compounding practice.
- Compute acquisition costs and establish the selling price of compounded medications.
- Summarize regulatory guidelines and standards of practice for compounding.
- Demonstrate how to customize standard operating procedures.
- Apply standards of practice for non-hazardous and hazardous drug compounding.
- Explain a collaborative compounding practice.
- Relate standards of practice and workflow dynamics to facility design models.
- Relate standard operating procedure competency and compliance with corrective action and preventive action.
- Solve compounding calculations to increase accuracy and minimize medication error.
- Demonstrate the importance of dosage form stability with the suitability of a compounded medication for a patient.
- Explain the concept of customization with appropriate compromise as it applies to a compounded medication.
- Describe dosage form design as it relates to bioavailability optimization, patient safety and a positive therapeutic outcome.
- Recognize the importance of the steps of a prescription assessment for compounding.
- Recognize the importance of clinical decision-making processes in compounding.
Hands-on Lab
PHARMACISTS
- Demonstrate proper donning and doffing of personal protective equipment; non-hazardous and hazardous
- Demonstrate how to manage a workstation, its equipment and chemical inventory
- Demonstrate how to properly sanitize a workstation in a non-hazardous and hazardous drug environment
- Demonstrate how to properly manage and dispose of waste; non-hazardous and hazardous
- Demonstrate how to clean and disinfect an analytical balance
- Demonstrate how to verify the internal calibration of an analytical balance
- Record data in standard operating procedure logs
- Demonstrate the use of electromechanical equipment, and reusable and disposable devices
- Perform a broad range of non-sterile compounding techniques
- Prepare a number of non-sterile compounded medications
- Determine the beyond-use date for non-sterile compounded medications
- Select appropriate dispensing containers for finished non-sterile dosage forms
- Complete formulation records for finished non-sterile dosage forms
- Analyze finished dosage forms by assessing organoleptic properties and performing weight variance testing
PHARMACY TECHNICIANS
- Demonstrate proper donning and doffing of personal protective equipment; non-hazardous and hazardous
- Demonstrate how to manage a workstation, its equipment and chemical inventory
- Demonstrate how to properly sanitize a workstation in a non-hazardous and hazardous drug environment
- Demonstrate how to properly manage and dispose of waste; non-hazardous and hazardous
- Demonstrate how to clean and disinfect an analytical balance
- Demonstrate how to verify the internal calibration of an analytical balance
- Record data in standard operating procedure logs
- Demonstrate the use of electromechanical equipment, and reusable and disposable devices
- Perform a broad range of non-sterile compounding techniques
- Prepare a number of non-sterile compounded medications
- Determine the beyond-use date for non-sterile compounded medications
- Select appropriate dispensing containers for finished non-sterile dosage forms
- Complete formulation records for finished non-sterile dosage forms
- Analyze finished dosage forms by assessing organoleptic properties and performing weight variance testing
Testimonials
"The greatest aspect of the training that LP3 Network offers is the instructors that teach these courses. At my Non-sterile training, I was excited to have Mark Filosi as the main instructor. Mark is a self-made, well-established compounder that has the experience and skills needed to run his own compounding pharmacy, which he has been doing for years. Together, with the other facilitators, they make up a team that is at the forefront of compounding, teaching you how to compound beyond regulation standards.”
Kyle Dolan | Pharmacist, Missouri
“From my initial contact with the LP3 Network staff, to getting signed up, to the accommodations, to the actual quality of the course, everything was top notch. The information was presented in a non-biased way and there was a good balance of lecture and hands-on lab work when paired with the lab training. The training supports development as a compounder, giving you not only the information you need to compound, but the standard you should strive to uphold. One of the best aspects of the course was how supportive the instructors were. The lecturers make the course fun, interesting and do a great job making difficult topics enjoyable. The material is presented in such a way as to make the theoretical information usable in everyday practice. I feel compounding is the future of pharmacy and this course does a wonderful job at introducing the topic. It is also a great place to network and meet people from all over with different background. I will definitely take more courses in the future with LP3 Network.”
Cathleen Gerhardt | Pharmacist
“This program was very straight to the point. I feel that it gave me the confidence and knowledge necessary to start marketing my compounding business. Everyone involved in the course was very patient and friendly. No matter how good you are, the instructors can still add to what you already know. I strongly recommend it.”
Kyro Nagib | Pharmacist, South Carolina
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FINANCIAL SUPPORT
This learning activity has received financial support from MEDISCA Inc. in the form of an educational grant.
COPYRIGHT
This CE Activity is Copyright © 2002-2024 LP3 Network.
Travel information
The training will take place at our state-of-the-art Learning Center.
Driving/Parking Instructions: If you are planning to drive in directly to the facility, please use the map/directions link provided above, under "Training location". Limited free parking is available at our training facility.
*Please note, in order to park at our training facility you will need to get a ticket from the machine by the parking garage gate off Biscayne Blvd entrance in the Onyx Tower (you can also press the intercom button at the parking garage gate and mention that you are attending a training with LP3 Network); easiest access to the facility (Suite 300) is through the parking garage on the 4th floor. We are located in the Red Tower. The main exit for the property will be the exit on Biscayne Blvd located in the White Tower. Please note that you will have to request a fob for the duration of your training once you get to our facility and use it to enter and exit each day. The fob must be returned at the end of the program.
The preferred hotel accommodation is the Serena Hotel.
For reservations, please call 305-918-8984 or to book online, click here.
†Payment for hotel accommodations is at the expense of the activity participant. Rates are based on standard room accommodations and subject to change, availability, and tax, currently at 13%. Should the preferred rate not be available, the best available house rate will prevail.
Note: Facilitators are subject to change.
MARK FILOSI, BS Pharm, RPh |  |
Mr. Filosi is the owner of a thriving non-sterile compounding practice in Plant City, Florida, where he is responsible for the sales and marketing of the compounding segment of his business. Mr. Filosi has over 25 years of experience in both non-sterile and sterile compounding and is a former surveyor for the Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board (PCAB), a service of the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC).
Mr. Filosi graduated cum laude from Fitchburg State College in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and then went on to graduate cum laude in Pharmacy from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in Boston, Massachusetts. Today, Mr. Filosi is a preceptor for Florida A & M University, University of Florida, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.
In his free time, Mr. Filosi enjoys horseback riding with his daughter and being a scoutmaster for his son’s troop.
DAVID MASTROPIETRO, PhD, RPh |  |
Dr. David Mastropietro is an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Nova Southeastern University, College of Pharmacy where he teaches the art of pharmacy compounding and the science of formulation development using classroom and laboratory methodologies. Dr. Mastropietro is also a pharmacist with over 20 years of experience practicing in community and hospital settings. He has 8 years’ experience consulting in the development, testing, and manufacturing of dietary supplements, serving as Senior Advisor for Formulation Development & Product Commercialization for Solara Labs, Inc. and Director of Personalized Formulation & Experience for Clean Living & Wellness. In addition to his teaching, pharmacist, and advisory roles, Dr. Mastropietro is active in research with 24 journal publications, over 85 abstracts and presentations, 3 book chapters, and 7 US & World patent applications.
Editor
| NEIL COHEN, BSc CE Program Developer Disclosure: None |  |
Contributors
| JENNIFER CLARE, BSc Contributor / Facilitator, LP3 Network Senior Technical Support Service Representative, Medisca Network Disclosure: None | |
| MINDY CORMIER, Pharm D, RPh Contributor / Facilitator, LP3 Network Advanced Clinical & Formulation Pharmacist, Medisca Network Disclosure: None |  |
| MARK FILOSI, BS Pharm, RPh Contributor / Facilitator, LP3 Network Consultant, Medisca Network Compounding Pharmacist and Co-Founder, Family Care Pharmacy Disclosure: None | |
DAVID MASTROPIETRO, PhD, RPh | |
PHARMACISTS & PHARMACY TECHNICIANS
The Home Study & Virtual Seminar are accredited for Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) through CPE Consultants, LLC.
Total CPE Credits: 48 CPE Hours = 4.8 CEUs
| Format | Home Study | Seminar | Hands-on Lab |
| Type | Knowledge-based | Application-based | Application-based |
| UAN | 0864-9999-24-044-H07-P/T | 0864-9999-24-049-L07-P/T | 0864-9999-24-043-L07-P/T |
| Credits | 24 CPE Hours = 2.4 CEUs | 12 CPE Hours = 1.2 CEUs | 12 CPE Hours = 1.2 CEUs |
| Release Date | July 1, 2024 | July 1, 2024 | July 1, 2024 |
| Expiration Date | July 1, 2027 | July 1, 2027 | July 1, 2027 |
COMPLETION REQUIREMENTS
- Complete the pre-requisite Knowledge-based Home Study and associated learning assessment (minimum 80% passing grade, two attempts permitted).
- Participate in the Virtual Seminar and demonstrate participation in its interactive sessions.
- Complete a post-seminar learning assessment (minimum 80% passing grade, two attempts permitted).
- Submit a completed seminar activity evaluation online.
When the aforementioned steps have been completed and approved:
- Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians registered in the United States will obtain a statement of completed credits on their NABP e-Profile within 60 days.
- Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians registered elsewhere will receive an automated email from LP3 Network advising that they can download a statement of participation.
- All participants will receive an automated email from LP3 Network advising that they can download the LP3 Network certificate of completion.
 | CPE Consultants, LLC is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. |
International participants should verify with their respective governing board for accreditation equivalency.
CANCELLATION AND REFUND POLICY
In the event that LP3 Network cancels a course, LP3 Network's sole liability shall be course repayment. In no event shall LP3 Network be responsible for any costs related to travel and/or accommodation. A written request must be sent to LP3 Network Inc. requesting ‘Cancellation without Transfer’ to an alternate live activity event date. If cancellation occurs at greater than or equal to 31 days from live activity event date, then registrant will receive a 75% refund; 15-30 days a 50% refund; and less than or equal to 14 days no refund. There are no refunds, returns, or transfer requests upon purchase of a home study, digital work book, webinar, and eLearning modules. LP3 NETWORK INC. shall be excused from any delay caused by reason of any occurrence or contingency beyond its reasonable control (a “Force Majeure”), including but not limited to, acts of God, hurricane, earthquake, labour disputes, strikes, riots, war, and governmental requirements. The obligation to pay money to LP3 NETWORK INC. in a timely manner is absolute and shall not be subject to this Force Majeure provision. In such event, LP3 NETWORK INC. will not issue any refunds, only transfer to an alternate live activity event date.
TRANSFER POLICY
The transfer policy is only in effect if requested greater than or equal to 14 days prior to the original live activity date. Failure to submit the “Transfer Request” at least 14 days prior to the original live activity date will default to the “Cancellation and Refund Policy”. The transfer policy can only be applied one (1) time. Transfer to a new live activity date must be within the current calendar year. Failure to attend the new live activity will result in no refund and will no longer be transferable. Confirmation of the new activity date is subject to approval by LP3 Network based on the number of available seats within the selected live activity. There are no refunds, returns, or transfers upon purchase of the home study.
HOME STUDY VERSION
Please note: Canadian participants will automatically receive access to the Canadian version of the Home Study. All other participants will automatically receive access to the US version of the Home Study. If you would like to switch versions, please contact us.