Could I bring the existance of NAMDET* to the notice of Medical Device Trainers. Visit their web site which is hosted by Training for Innovation.
It is a national group with regional sections. They are trying to bring trainers together so they can share experiences, best practice, documentation etc.

Could you of the more technical pursuasion bring this to the notice of the trainers in your hospitals.
Thank you
RoJo
Trainers, you are not alone even though it might feel like it.


PS This is an official NHS sponsored group not just a few well meaning individuals.
PPS Educators in the private sector, including industry, are welcome as we all have the same goal.

*National Association of Medical Device Educators and Trainers

Not just another Quango then, Robert?

I notice that they are selling* stuff. They don't have a basic biomed tech training course on offer, I suppose?


A feeling so familiar (to many of us) that I've always considered it to be the "default" (although it is appreciated that you're really talking about Equipment Trainers).


Oh, not like the VRCT, you mean?

* With all proceeds going towards the care of patients at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital? We hope.

Geoff,
I think TFI is separate to Chel and West they just use offices and admin staff there, and the funds go back to TFI.
Namdet is just using their site and facilities for hosting their own site.
But without your (and my) cynicism where would we be?
RoJo

PS Just a member of NAMDET not on the board etc.

I think I liked it better when it was known as *THOTH.

* More catchy, wouldn't you say?

So did I but my teeth kept flying out when I said it.

THOTH concentrated on theatre equipment, they are now covering everything hence the name change. The initial idea for TFI was - as the name suggests - a reaction to equipment manufacturers wanting new innovative equipment to be put in to use rapidly.
NAMDET is specificaaly for trainers of equipment in use.
RoJo

Should these people be regulated? how about setting up a VRMDT? After all think of the harm a badly trained medic could do to a patient!!

Over to you Ed (for that favourite latin phrase) ... it's your turn!

Something about "who guards the gardners"?

The seat of intelligence then ?

Yes. Half-man, half-baboon. I come across them all the time.

But if anyone has to have a God, then I suppose that good old Thoth is a good as any.

That is one of the things NAMDET is looking in to.



The above was a serious request as it is very hard to track these people down. They are in so many different departments from Clinical Engineering through Education to Risk. It is not like phoning a hospital and asking for "Medical Electronics" and the switchboard says "You mean EBME, I will put you through"

Thanks
RoJo