Member class

Member is the next class of corporate membership and applicants to the class of Member will be required to have a minimum two years professional experience as a Licentiate and hold an Institute Specialist Diploma or a Diploma of Specialist Practice.

Members of the Institute also have the opportunity to work towards an Institute Higher Specialist Diploma, a qualification that after at least three years professional experience as a Member will allow individuals to apply for the highest class of Institute membership, Fellow.

If appropriate to their employment circumstances, Members may alternatively undertake a thesis and obtain a Diploma of Higher Specialist Practice.

Members are eligible to sit the Institute's certificates and diplomas of expert practice that allow the demonstration of knowledge and skills complimentary to the main disciplines of biomedical science.

Individuals in the class of Member are entitled to use the designatory letters MIBMS.

Chartered Scientist
Members and Fellows who possess a Masters degree or equivalent, have at least four years postgraduate professional experience as a corporate Institute member and are able to demonstrate on-going CPD activities over a minimum period of two years, are eligible to apply to the Institute for Chartered Scientist status.

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