Employee Training Program

An Employee Training Program for Your Organization’s Medical Affairs Team

Building a world-class Medical Affairs department requires more than just hiring the right talent, it also demands a structured and consistent approach to employee training. 

However, many organizations encounter a common challenge: developing comprehensive Medical Affairs training programs in-house can be time-consuming, costly, and difficult to keep up to date. 

The Foundations in Medical Affairs Certificate Program offers a ready-to-use employee training program developed by the Medical Affairs Professional Society (MAPS), and delivered by subject-matter experts. 

This ready-to-deploy Medical Affairs training program delivers the competency-based curriculum your organization needs, without the burden of custom development.  

Best of all, the program is fully customizable! You choose the domains and competencies that align with your organization’s specific needs, so your team gets exactly the training that matters most. Or assign the full program to provide comprehensive, foundational level training as an onboarding or early career resource. 

Whether you are upskilling current team members, onboarding new hires, or standardizing Medical Affairs training across global teams or different therapeutic areas, the Foundations in Medical Affairs Program provides the essential framework for your organization.

Why Build When You Can Deploy?

For HR leaders, Learning & Development professionals, and Medical Affairs executives, Foundations eliminates the most significant barriers to effective employee training: 

  • No development time required. Gain immediate access to a fully built Medical Affairs training curriculum. 
  • No subject matter expert burden. Stop pulling your senior Medical Affairs professionals away from strategic work to create training content. 
  • No ongoing maintenance. MAPS continuously updates the curriculum to reflect evolving industry standards and best practices. 
  • No quality concerns. Unlike generic training developed by consultants unfamiliar with Medical Affairs, this employee training program was built by the professionals who define excellence in the field. 
  • No one-size-fits-all limitations. Pick and choose the modules that match your organization’s priorities. You can deploy the full program or select specific domains and competencies tailored to each team’s needs. 

Developed by Medical Affairs Industry Leaders

What sets this Medical Affairs training apart is its origin: created collaboratively by over 60 senior leaders from renowned pharmaceutical and MedTech organizations, this curriculum is anchored in the MAPS Medical Affairs Competency Framework, a standard for defining excellence in the profession. 

Every module reflects real-world experience and insights from Medical Affairs professionals who understand the daily challenges, regulatory complexities, and strategic imperatives your teams face. This isn’t theoretical training, but practical, applicable, and immediately relevant for your team and organization. 

Seven Domains. 42 Competencies. Complete Coverage.

The Foundations employee training program provides comprehensive Medical Affairs training structured across seven essential domains. Your organization can deploy the entire curriculum or customize the experience by selecting the specific domains and competencies most relevant to your team: 

Develop Medical Affairs strategy to drive organizational goals and improve patient outcomes.

Build deep therapeutic and scientific expertise. 

Understand the commercial landscape and cross-functional priorities.

Design and execute strategically important studies.

Ensure the company’s scientific narrative reaches and resonates with external stakeholders.

Develop teams and drive organizational outcomes.

Navigate regulatory frameworks with confidence.

Each Domain is divided into focused Competency modules delivered in concise 15-minute microlearning sessions designed to fit demanding schedules while ensuring meaningful knowledge retention. 

Built for Organizational Deployment

This Medical Affairs training solution is specifically designed for enterprise implementation. With a fully modular structure, you can customize the training experience to match each team member’s role, experience level, and development priorities:

  • Ensure every new Medical Affairs hire receives consistent, high-quality foundational training from day one. 
  • Reduce time-to-productivity and establish baseline competencies across your organization. 
  • Provide current employees with structured professional development that addresses competency gaps. 
  • Select specific domains or individual competency modules for targeted skill building or deploy the full program for comprehensive development. 
  • Extend Medical Affairs training beyond your core team. 
  • Help colleagues in Commercial, Regulatory, Clinical Operations, and other functions understand Medical Affairs priorities by assigning curated modules relevant to their collaboration points. 
  • Deploy the same employee training program across regions and affiliates. 
  • Establish a unified understanding of Medical Affairs competencies regardless of geography. 

No two Medical Affairs organizations are identical. That’s why Foundations is designed to be flexible. You decide what’s right for your team: 

  • Full Program Deployment: Assign all seven Domains and 42 Competencies for comprehensive foundational training. 
  • Domain-Specific Training: Focus on the areas that matter most. Assign only Strategy and Leadership for senior hires or Customer Engagement and Scientific & Technical Knowledge for field teams. 
  • Role-Based Learning Paths: Tailor the curriculum to different roles within your organization: MSLs, HEOR Directors, Medical Information specialists, and cross-functional partners each get the modules relevant to their responsibilities. 
  • Competency Gap Remediation: Identify specific skill gaps and assign targeted modules to address them. No need to require the full program when focused development will suffice. 

This modular flexibility means you invest only in the training your organization actually needs, while maintaining the quality and consistency of an industry-standard curriculum. 

Ideal Use Cases

Organizations leverage this employee training program for: 

  • New hire onboarding for Medical Affairs roles 
  • Transitioning employees from Clinical, Commercial, or Regulatory into Medical Affairs 
  • Establishing baseline competencies for MSL teams 
  • Supplementing internal training programs with industry-standard content 
  • Cross-training adjacent functions on Medical Affairs fundamentals 
  • Refresher training for experienced professionals on evolving competencies 
  • Targeted development using hand-picked modules for specific competency gaps

Key Benefits for Your Organization

Launch your internal employee training program without development delays.

Pick and choose. Assign training by domain, individual competency, or full program based on role requirements and organizational priorities. 

Build role-specific learning paths by selecting the exact modules each team needs, no unnecessary content, no wasted time.

Certificates of completion and ongoing reports provide auditable records of employee development.

Leverage the collective expertise of 60+ senior leaders from top pharmaceutical and MedTech companies.

Eliminate the expense of custom curriculum development and ongoing content maintenance.

Self-paced online delivery via MAPS eCademy enables training at scale without scheduling constraints.

Transform Your Employee Training Program Today

Stop building from scratch. The Foundations in Medical Affairs Certificate Program delivers the comprehensive, competency-based employee training program your Medical Affairs team needs—fully customizable to your organization’s priorities, developed by industry experts, maintained by MAPS, and ready to deploy now. 

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