2 research outputs found
The EC4 European syllabus for post-graduate training in clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine : Version 4-2012
Laboratory medicine’s practitioners across the European
community include medical, scientific and pharmacy trained
specialists whose contributions to health and healthcare is
in the application of diagnostic tests for screening and early
detection of disease, differential diagnosis, monitoring,
management and treatment of patients, and their prognostic
assessment. In submitting a revised common syllabus for
post-graduate education and training across the 27 member
states an expectation is set for harmonised, high quality,
safe practice. In this regard an extended ‘Core knowledge,
skills and competencies’ division embracing all laboratory
medicine disciplines is described. For the first time the syllabus
identifies the competencies required to meet clinical
leadership demands for defining, directing and assuring
the efficiency and effectiveness of laboratory services as
well as expectations in translating knowledge and skills
into ability to practice. In a ‘Specialist knowledge’ division,
the expectations from the individual disciplines of Clinical
Chemistry/Immunology, Haematology/Blood Transfusion,
Microbiology/ Virology, Genetics and In Vitro Fertilisation
are described. Beyond providing a common platform of
knowledge, skills and competency, the syllabus supports the
aims of the European Commission in providing safeguards
to increasing professional mobility across European borders
at a time when demand for highly qualified professionals is
increasing and the labour force is declining. It continues to
act as a guide for the formulation of national programmes
supplemented by the needs of individual country priorities.peer-reviewe