
Prepare for opportunities in pharmaceutical quality assurance, quality control, and laboratory work with hands-on post-graduate training from AAPS.
The Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance and Quality Control Post-Graduate Diploma Program provides students with comprehensive knowledge and practical skills in pharmaceutical analysis, quality assurance, and regulatory affairs. Courses are delivered by experts from the pharmaceutical industry, giving students the opportunity to learn from professionals with direct field experience.
Through this program, students work in a state-of-the-art laboratory environment that simulates Good Manufacturing Practices conditions. This hands-on approach helps students build the technical and practical skills needed to work in a well-regulated pharmaceutical environment.
Learn in a Practical Environment
Learn From Pharmaceutical Professionals
Build Technical Laboratory Skills
Prepare for Regulated Industries
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Learn in a Practical Environment
Learn From Pharmaceutical Professionals
Build Technical Laboratory Skills
Prepare for Regulated Industries
AAPS’ clinical research program focuses on the global regulatory framework of drug development and pharmacovigilance, including Good Clinical Practices, Good Pharmacovigilance Practices, international guidelines, standard operating procedures, and Canadian regulatory requirements.
Students explore the analysis of raw materials, in-process products, and finished products using practical physical and chemical techniques. Training includes exposure to current laboratory instruments and methods such as High Performance Liquid Chromatography, Karl Fischer Titration, dissolution testing, infrared spectroscopy, and ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy.
The program also introduces students to the quality systems, compliance expectations, and regulatory practices required to work in a well-controlled manufacturing and laboratory environment.
Certificate courses can also be taken individually according to the learner’s needs. Students are free to enroll in as many certificate courses as they wish, allowing them to build specific skills in areas that align with their professional goals.
Graduates of the Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance and Quality Control Post-Graduate Diploma Program may pursue opportunities with pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetics companies, as well as testing laboratories.
Quality control and quality assurance professionals are in consistent demand because each production batch must be tested before release. Professionals in the quality field continue to be needed in Canada and around the world.
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Take the next step toward a career in pharmaceutical quality assurance, quality control, and laboratory analysis with AAPS’ Post-Graduate Diploma Program.