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I think they're just trying to mirror what happens on the Clinical Scientist register, so that if it ever becomes non-voluntary they can say that mechanisms are already in place for notification if someone leaves the register.

Although I suspect employers will probably use that information in regards to your employment.

Association of Biomedical Engineers & Technicians, something on the lines of The Directors Guild or Neighbourhood Watch.

We've been through all this before (at great length).

Some people object (quite rightly in my view) to "invented" names like:- Clinical Technologist!

But we get a lot of newspeak in Airstrip One these days. It's one of the "benefits" we gain from being in the EUSSR, I suppose.

Here's another example:- United Kingdom.

The title was also usurped, before the VRCT there was actually Clinical Technologists, but the definition was someone who uses technology not maintains it. If you search on some NHS careers sites it will actually give the old definition.

It would probably have been someone on the medical staff who was in charge of equipment and did front line fault diagnosis before sending it off to the engineering department.

Yet another reason for objecting to it, then.

We all know that the real reason for all this BS is the seemingly never ending turf war between Medical Physics and those of the Lower Orders ... meanwhile (hopefully) the simple Medical Equipment Repairmen will no doubt be getting on with the real work!

The aristocracy versus the serfs? The plebs must always win ... if only because there are more of us!

On the IPEM web site in the section How to Apply for the VRCT the first line is "You must first be employed as a Trainee Clinical Technologist in an IPEM accredited centre." So it seems any new person who wants (and in the future possibly needs) to be registered has to be on an accredited training scheme.
However this does not seem to be possible as there are currently no approved Clinical Engineering degrees suitable for bench technologists, so how can anyone run an approved course or be an accredited centre?
How are people dealing with this when they take on new staff at a trainee level?
Jim (Methven), I know you read this site at times I would be interested on your take on this in case I have things wrong.
RoJo

As a PS to the above,
Obviously there are accredited technologist training centres - we are one - but I am specifically talking about Clinical Engineering Technologists (Bench technicians who manage and fix equipment)and not rehabilitation technologists or medical physics technologists.

This is a list of the approved courses for technologists.

RoJo

Looks suspiciously like Medical Physics Technician to me.

Geoff, United Kingdom or Untied Kingdom

Personally, I do not think that IPEM (and the system set out on the VRCT site) are following the rules set out by UKSPEC http://www.engc.org.uk/professional-qualifications/standards/uk-spec
I think, that what they have put in place, goes beyond what is required.

Scott