Events during May 2020

Complimentary Financial Peace of Mind Webinar

07/05/2020
IBMS Members get access to a number of useful services as part of IBMS Additions. Our friends at Lighthouse Financial Advice have arranged a complimentary, no obligation webinar with a professional financial adviser to provide financial advice during this difficult time*.

Biopod 7: XYZ - the multi-generational workforce

12/05/2020
Join IBMS Deputy Chief Executive Sarah May as she discusses the multi-generational workforce

UK Standards for Microbiology Investigations- Chairs Strategy Working Group Meeting May 2020

13/05/2020
Working group to develop standards for clinical and diagnostic microbiology laboratories

The Genomic & Microbiology Revolution: in Technology we Trust (…or do we?)

14/05/2020
A day spent looking at the latest in genomic technology and how it relates to the clinical microbiology laboratory. How accurate is it, do we trust the results it provides us with, how do we interpret the information and results obtained.
Listen to the latest information on clinical/infectious disease topics that are presenting currently in the field of clinical microbiology with the opportunity to listen to leading experts and latest opinions on current trends and how to address them in the laboratory and in the field.
Improvement in knowledge use of genomic technologies and how they can be applied in the clinical laboratory of infections.
Application of these new technologies have been developed for use in routine investigation and utilisation of clinical infections.
The chance to interact with commercial companies and see the latest technology available on the market.
Opportunity to speak with key opinion leaders in this field.
This will help with the attendees develop in the following key learning areas
- Be able to analyse the data/information presented and develop science-based solutions that could be incorporated to enhance current laboratory methods
- Enable the creation of cohesive and persuasive arguments to allow project work to be undertaken to introduce new processes to the laboratory
- To integrate knowledge, analyse and evaluate the information presented in the light of own current knowledge of respiratory infections.
- Utilisation of new technologies within the Microbiology laboratory to improve the current service provided
- Take information /knowledge gained back to the laboratory to cascade to colleagues in the format of presentation or group discussion

- Be able to analyse the data/information presented and develop science-based solutions that could be incorporated to enhance current laboratory methods
- Enable the creation of cohesive and persuasive arguments to allow project work to be undertaken to introduce new processes to the laboratory
- To integrate knowledge, analyse and evaluate the information presented in the light of own current knowledge of respiratory infections.
- Utilisation of new technologies within the Microbiology laboratory to improve the current service provided
- Take information /knowledge gained back to the laboratory to cascade to colleagues in the format of presentation or group discussion