- Vision for science and society: consultation
- Biomedical scientist needed to work in Uganda
- 3rd annual UK awards for allied health professionals and healthcare scientists
- Tool to support workforce planning in pathology
- Use of human tissue two years on...
- Voluntary Registration Council (VRC) news
- Scottish Government healthcare science website
- Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
- Research grants for patient safety
- New smear test improves accuracy
- HPC President unanimously re-elected
- HTA publishes its Annual Review 2007/08
September 2008 Issue
The Department of Health has set-up a number of events around the country on Modernising Scientific Careers. All healthcare and biomedical scientists are advised to attend any local events hosted by their SHAs to find out more about the proposals and how it could affect their profession. more...
NHS Employers: What is Modernising Scientific Careers (MSC)?
Federation for Healthcare Science: position statement on MSC
MSC information and discussion: IBMS web forums
Events, accredited training courses, CPD and local activities and other events of professional or scientific interest.
IBMS West Midlands: Modernising Scientific Careers
IBMS London Region Virology Discussion Group: Hepatitis E
Manchester Bacteriology Discussion Group: Out of Africa
Midland Cellibration 2008
National Pathology Week
Registration portfolio training for students
IBMS in Scotland: Snapshots of a profession
more...
The next Biomedical Science Congress may be 12 months away but now is the time to add it to your training and development plans. The various discounts available for this premier event in the biomedical science calendar are also worth considering at the earliest opportunity. more...
The IBMS Training Update Meeting on the 8th October is now fully booked.
Further information about events of this kind will be included in future e-newsletters.
This is a collaborative hosted by the Institute of Biomedical Science at the request of the Serious Hazards of Transfusion reporting scheme. more...
The Institute accredits honours level degrees in biomedical science and named Masters degree relevant to biomedical science. The IBMS’s programme of accreditation plays a key role in the education of biomedical scientists. more...
The Scottish Quality Managers Discussion Group has launched a new award, the SQMDG Annual Quality Award. The deadline is Friday 26th Sept. more...
Information on the role of biomedical scientists in ophthalmic pathology and the training programme developed by the IBMS and Royal College of Pathologists. more...
The Institute has reviewed and released a new version of its professional guidance, Managing staffing and workload in UK clinical diagnostic laboratories. more...
The Institute has reviewed and released a new version of its professional guidance, Giving Results over the telephone. more...
Comment: Visionaries before their time
Advanced Specialist Diploma in Cervical Cytology
Guidance on plagiarism
IBMS South West Region:
Autumn 2008 Newsletter
CPD: Structured reading
A list of topics for structured reading with associated key references.
Fellowship by Thesis
Information on the Institute's new alternative equivalent route to the class of Fellow, through submission to the Institute of an M-level thesis that meets the Institute’s criteria and leads to the award of a Diploma of Higher Specialist Practice.
Laboratory diagnosis of acute pancreatitis
Metabolic syndrome: a medical controversy
Basic concepts in clinical
laboratory science:
a Finnish view