The Food and Drug Administration has disappointed a department for the training of agency employees and external health professions in a number of important public health, regulation and security practices as well as to support the professional development of employees.
In an e -mail shown by CNBC, the employees were informed that the department for learning and organizational development or DLOD is contrasted by reducers according to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. All more than 30 employees in the department were released. While it was a small team within the FDA, it was an important resource for the entire agency and external doctors, nurses, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
Kennedy lowered 10,000 jobs at HHS, including around 3,500 full -time employees at the FDA to concentrate on what HHS described as “firing operations and centralizing administrative functions”. The FDA is responsible for the regulation and monitoring of security, effectiveness and security of human and veterinary drugs, medical devices, food and cosmetics.
HHS said that the agency's cuts will not influence the inspectors or experts from drugs, medical devices or foods and mainly affect employees who are regarded as unnecessary responsibility. However, reports indicate that the Trump administration eliminates some employees who played a key role in protecting public health, such as:
Kennedy said last week that some employees and programs in federal authorities who are affected by its extensive reductions will be restored. However, it is unclear whether this includes this DLOD employee. The FDA did not immediately answer a request for comment.
According to E -Mail, the department canceled all planned activities, including scientific and regulatory education as well as leadership and organizational development. It also scraps the processing and approval of so-called further training activities throughout the FDA, which refers to formal educational programs that help the employees of the agency and the external specialists in the healthcare sector to stay up to date on medical, public health and regulatory practices.
For example, some programs of the agency and external doctors, nurses and pharmacists train with regard to opioid security, avoid medication errors, infectious and rare diseases, clinical experiments and used artificial intelligence to support official decisions, such as two FDA employees who applied for anonymity freely. The department also stopped monthly presentations to highlight research in the agency – such as one recently about tobacco consumption – and their effects on the protection of public health, the employees said.
According to an FDA employee, there are now no employees available for the awarding of credits or points for the execution of approved educational activities such as lectures, online modules or workshops. Depending on the state, medical specialists must earn a certain number of credits or a licensing cycle every year in order to maintain their login information and to stay up to date on medical knowledge and standards.
The FDA also loses a central resource that employees can go to for professional development and training.
“With the removal of DLOD, there is great uncertainty about how learners and specialists will adapt,” said one of the FDA employees. “You are now responsible for finding and choosing your own courses independently of each other, which can lead to confusion or inefficiency.”
According to the two FDA employees, an office in the department was completely financed by so-called user fees, not by tax money. The FDA collects these fees of companies that produce certain products such as medicinal products and medical devices and from other companies such as certain certification bodies.
As part of its justification, the Trump administration led federal savings for the dismissal of employees at HHS and raised questions about why it aimed for this unit.
The office, which is known as a continuation and consultation declaration–the only group within the FDA that was authorized to issue both FDA employees and external members of the health professions, said the two employees. The office included six workers who will all lose their work.
The office was also the only “accredited” unit within the FDA, which means that it was qualified to create training in various health disciplines, said the employee.
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