How much do you value your training officer?

摘要

HISTORICALLY ,practical laboratory training has been in-house and largely unregulated.Formal education of biomedical scientists took place in Higher Education establishments and Universities,and there was no mechanism for the two to necessarily meet as a cohesive unit.The Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine(CPSM)"logbook and viva"route to registration was an attempt to standardise the criteria to be recognised as a trained professional,but only 25 years ago,to be state registered with the CPSM only required evidence of a formal qualification and a letter of recommendation from your employer.When the responsibility for the registration of healthcare professionals passed into the hands of the Health Professions Council(HPC),laboratory medicine was forced to sit up and take notice.