I hear you Geoff. It was a long arduous process in Canada to get where we are now and we still have a ways to go. We were able to convince some manufacturers to provide funding to help get this off the ground. Rough guess I would say that about half of the biomed techs in Canada are certified. As a certification group we have sent letters to every major biomed employer(hospitals mostly)in the country to encourage them to get on board. It is slow but we are having some success.
Techs always ask 'what's in it for me?' with regard to certification. Some take the high road and say they will do it for thier own professional growth but "money talks".
