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There are set criteria for eligability to the current VRCT and future RCT including a degree - but is this actually "or an equivalent level of education", using the degree as a measure indicating what is required.

However in the future I believe it will be compulsary. In the same way you would not want a doctor or nurse to have a similar level of experience. i.e. "I was a vet but I am sure I can manage with humans" but to be actually qualified in that field.
The reasoning being that if you were a vet and wanted to become a doctor you would have to start again from the beginning, with some allowance being made for EPL (Equivalent Prior Learning). The same is being applied to medical technologists (this is the term like it or not Geoff). If you want to change career you will have to get the qualification which includes the "piece of paper".
This is the future, our Lord and Master (Lady and Mistress) has spoken. Like it or live with it even if you disagree with it.
Robert

@Leon: sorry Mate, but you've lost me with that first bit (and I have read it three times). I'll be happy to respond if you want to clarify what the point is you're trying to make.

But you're more or less right with that last bit:- regardless of what they may or may not already know, the Old Dogs are too old. Bearing in mind how long this VRCT has been going on already, there just aren't enough years left are there?

@Robert: "change career"?

What, from Biomed Tech to "Clinical Technologist" you mean?

Oh, now I see the Plan (Plot?) ... please forgive me for being so ... er, dumb (slow on the uptake, whatever).

Surely what is needed is what we might call "Career Pathways" (and properly thought-out ones at that) to suit all possible individual scenarios and aimed at bringing everyone "up to standard".

After all, there is a great deal of difference between a New Entrant and someone like Neil out in Jeddah (for example). Don't tell me that a guy like Neil would be expected to "go back and start again" if he decided to return to the UK! (sorry, Neil)

Meanwhile:- Lords and Masters come, and Ladies (Baronesses?) and Mistresses go. In fact, they're almost two-a-penny.

From an electronics technician to a clinical engineering technologist for example.

Robert

PS When anyone saye "Sue Hill" I think of the classic way of calling pigs - and cannot get this out of my mind.

I suppose that the Good News about the VRCT is that "voluntary erasure" of a name from the Register will not only "wipe the slate clean" for the name concerned, but also avoid prosecution as well. You know, just like what happens with surgeons and others.

So much, then, for "protecting the patients".

Meanwhile, I hear that the long-awaited "League Table of Surgeons' Results" is due to be published (and, one presumes, maintained). So what's next, as far as we are concerned:- "League Table of PM Completion"? Why not?

After all, if we cannot point to tangible improvements, what's the point in (constant) navel-gazing and re-organization?

Clinical Engineering Technologist, fancy title, but to me that describes someone that works on prostheses and not bio-medical equipment.
Do people on here think that if you have a fancy title you are going to get more respect.

I am about to apply for chartered engineer status. You know, an engineer, as in heating engineer or a automotive engineer. Tell me about names and titles.
Robert

Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do........ and I do not fancy the the other option.

And the difference is? All the principles are the same. It is not akin to a vet becoming a doctor as you referred to earlier.
Someone who has spent years maintaining a robot dog would not be stumped when given an infusion pump to fix. Electronics are electronics.

Try telling "the powers that be" that. I am not saying that I agree with what is happening, it is just that it is.

Robert

Good luck with that one, Robert.

Notes from Memory Lane:- forty years ago REME so-called "commissioned warrant officers" (ex-senior technicians, armed, if they were lucky, with an HNC in Electronics - who were selected for officer rank) used to qualify for C.Eng. Just saying (as they say).