Could someone explain a way through this conundrum please (This is a serious request - not a dig - as we have people in this situation)
The Grandparenting routes are not available to any individual who commenced first
employment or training as a Clinical Technologist on or after 1st January 2007. Those
individuals will only be able to join the Register if they fulfil the requirement of the Primary
Criterion.
From the Guidance for Applicants on the VRCT web site.
On the IPEM web site there are no "approved" B.Sc's in Clinical Engineering (EBME or call it what you like). How do people in this field get on an approved course if there is no degree to go with it?
Are there any "accredited" training courses in
our field (there are medical physics technologist ones)? I know of none but it does not mean they do not exist.
If there is only a few "accredited" centers are older, industry (military) served, experienced engineers expected to leave home and family and go away to university for three years? With the presumably lower pay of a trainee.
I think the assumption that we will only be training school leavers is making the current, time served, but perhaps not paper qualified, people wary of this whole scheme.
Are there other ways to become registered for recently employed, experienced people other than seemingly non-existant training programmes?
Many thanks
RoJo
