Pharmaceutical Product Compounding and Packaging Training

Learning Outcomes

• Apply principles of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in compounding and packaging activities.
• Demonstrate accurate measurement, mixing, and manipulation of pharmaceutical ingredients to produce compounded preparations.
• Implement appropriate packaging techniques to ensure product stability, sterility, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Evaluate product quality through visual inspection, documentation, and adherence to quality control procedures.
• Analyze potential risks and hazards in the compounding environment and apply safety measures to prevent contamination and errors.
• Design a systematic workflow for compounding and packaging that optimizes efficiency and maintains traceability.

Target Audience

This course is designed for pharmacy assistants, pharmacy technicians, and other healthcare support staff involved in the preparation and packaging of pharmaceutical products in retail, hospital, or manufacturing settings.

Prerequisites

None — open enrollment.

Course Outline

Practicals

Overview

The practicals provide hands-on experience in compounding techniques, aseptic manipulations, and quality control testing. Learners will apply theoretical knowledge in a simulated pharmacy laboratory, preparing both sterile and non-sterile products under supervision.

Practical Activities

• Practical 1: Non-Sterile Compounding – Ointments and Creams — Learners compound a cream and an ointment using various bases, incorporating active ingredients, and perform quality control tests such as pH and viscosity measurement. (6h)
• Practical 2: Sterile Compounding – IV Admixtures — Learners prepare intravenous admixtures in a cleanroom environment, using aseptic technique, including laminar flow hood operation and proper garbing. (8h)
• Practical 3: Capsule Filling and Quality Control — Learners fill hard gelatin capsules with a powder blend, perform uniformity tests, and evaluate dissolution using a USP apparatus. (6h)
• Practical 4: Quality Assurance and Error Prevention — Learners simulate a compounding error scenario, conduct root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions. They also perform an internal audit of a compounding facility. (7h)

Summatives

Each delegate is assessed continuously throughout the course via daily exercises, scored practical assignments, and a final summative test at the end.

Practical Assignments — 30%

Practical assignments are observed and scored against a rubric during the practical sessions. Each delegate's practical mark is averaged into a single 100% score and contributes 30% to the final total.

Daily Exercises — 20%

Every training day ends with a multiple-choice exercise scored out of 100%. The scores from each daily exercise are averaged across the duration of the course to produce a Daily Average mark, which contributes 20% to the final total.

Final Test — 50%

On the last day a final summative test is written. It is a multiple-choice paper with multiple-answer questions: each question may have more than one correct option, and a single wrong selection on a question marks the entire question wrong — no partial credit. The final test is scored out of 100% and contributes 50% to the overall mark.

Final Total

Component	Out of	Weight
Practical Assignments (rubric-scored)	100%	30%
Daily Average (multiple choice)	100%	20%
Final Test (multi-answer multiple choice)	100%	50%
Final Total	—	100%

All marks are recorded on the AATICD LMS and visible to each learner under their account.

Certificate

How it works

• Certificates are auto-generated on the AATICD LMS as soon as the marks pass the 50% threshold.
• Each certificate is a branded PDF with the delegate's name, the course title, the unit standard ID, NQF level, credits, and the date of issue.
• You can download or print your certificate from your LMS dashboard at any time after issue — there's no reissue fee and no expiry date.
• If you scored under 50% you can sit the final test again at the next scheduled session at no extra cost.

Where to find it

Sign in to the LMS, open your dashboard, and your certificates appear under My Certificates. Each entry has a View / Download button and a print option.

Training Discounts

Group discounts apply automatically — the more delegates you enrol, the greater the saving. Discounts are calculated at 3% per 5 delegates, scaling up to 40% off for 100+ delegates.

Delegates	Discount
5	3% off
10	6% off
15	9% off
20	12% off
25	15% off
30	18% off
50	30% off
75	35% off
100	40% off

3% discount per 5 delegates, up to 40% off for 100+ delegates. Contact us for a custom group quote.