Hall 4 Programme
In Hall 4 we are offering three full days of free seminars on all aspects of registration, training and professional qualifications and presentations on safety and risk, molecular pathology and genomics, and laboratory informatics.
Essential material for trainers, trainees and anyone undertaking a professional qualification
For anyone considering becoming a Registration Training Portfolio verifier you'll also find a registration training workshop, which will count toward the requirement you will need, or it can simply be used as a refresher opportunity for anyone involved in registration training.
These smaller group seminars are complementary to the main lecture programme and their aim is to inform and encourage discussion and to provide the opportunity to hear about new, novel or challenging subjects that fall outside the main discipline specific lecture programmes.
The smaller, more informal nature of these sessions enables delegates to discuss and debate the issues with the presenters and to exchange their ideas and experiences.
The importance of a thorough complaints investigation
New ISO risk and safety standards
Covid-19: the safety considerations associated with diagnostic testing and the vaccine response
Covid-19: the safety considerations associated with diagnostic testing and the vaccine response
Hall 4 Programme
Abstract
The Microbiology and Biotechnology team in HSE’s Chemicals, Explosives and Microbiological Hazards Division (CEMHD) is a team of specialist inspectors. The unit is responsible for the regulation of premises deliberately working with high-hazard microorganisms and genetically modified organisms that affect humans, animals and the environment across Great Britain. The range of work is hugely diverse, from regulation of laboratories in the NHS sector to novel molecular techniques for producing genetically modified organisms in academia.
Unsurprisingly, given the team’s regulatory functions, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a busy time. What followed in early 2020 was unprecedented and marked the start of a sustained period where the team provided a critical role in truly exceptional and challenging circumstances. The microbiology team went the extra mile to facilitate the government response to the pandemic while also ensuring that worker safety was not compromised.
In a fast-moving, politically sensitive situation the specialist team were required to make some difficult regulatory decisions against the back-drop of the emerging scientific evidence of the virus. The unit worked alongside experts in the sector to achieve a pragmatic and proportionate way forward whilst maintaining a firm regulatory stance to gain assurances that the safe systems of work and procedural controls in place provided adequate protection for those carrying out work with the virus.
The presentation will provide the audience an insight into the range of work carried out by the team in order to support the Governments diagnostic testing strategy, the advent of large scale diagnostic facilities never before seen on the UK and the supporting role HSE played in vaccine development and testing. The pandemic highlighted the range of work carried out by the team and the important and unique contribution that HSE made within government in this specialist area.
Speakers
Vin Poran
Introducing the PATHFAST™ - Emergency Marker High Sensitivity Troponin I assay into the Emergency Department
Influenza-like-Illness testing and its importance as SARS-CoV-2 moves from pandemic to endemic
The next revolution in infectious disease testing - integrating prognosis and diagnosis by reading the host response
East Kent Hospital inactivate SARS-CoV-2 in 60secs, revolutionising their workflow processes.
Preparing to pass the HSD
Preparing to pass the HSD
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Abstract
The Higher Specialist Diploma (HSD) is the main route for gaining Fellowship (FIBMS) status of the IBMS.
This session will provide an overview of the qualification, outlining who it is aimed at, and what successful candidates will be able to do as a result of achieving the qualification. It will explain the portfolio requirements and the nature and structure of the exams. It will then provide advice and guidance on these two elements of the qualification and what candidates can do in order to put themselves in the best position to achieve the qualification.
Speakers
Chris Ward
Online learning – how to make it work for you
Online learning – how to make it work for you
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Abstract
Online learning has become more prevalent in Biomedical Science education in recent years, even more so with the effect of the pandemic on colleges and universities.
This presentation will explore the different types of online learning currently in use and how to get the best out of them as both a learner and a manager.
Speakers
Dr Victoria Bradley
Planning and delivering laboratory training
The IBMS Registration Training Portfolio – everything you need to know
Portfolio evidence: the good, the bad and the totally avoid
Modules: a new approach to Specialist Portfolio training
How green is your laboratory – Embedding sustainability into practice?
Clinical informatics: the importance and impact for pathology
Clinical informatics: the importance and impact for pathology
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Abstract
Clinical Informatics is the application of data and information technology to improve patient and population health, care and wellbeing outcomes, and to advance treatment and the delivery of personalised, coordinated support from health and social care.
This talk aims to show why Clinical Informatics is important for pathology and why pathology is important for clinical informatics. The talk will briefly cover, Governance – CCIOs Caldecott etc, education/professional standards, pathology messaging, digital diagnostic connectivity and interoperability, other uses of data, AI and machine learning.
Speakers
Robert Simpson
The National Genomics Test Directory and its implications for cellular pathology laboratories
Development of the Biomedical Scientist workforce in molecular pathology
How genomics is helping to revolutionise cancer care: integration of pathology and genomics in the NHS
Diploma of Expert Practice in Histological Dissection
Diploma of Expert Practice in Histological Dissection
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Abstract
The session will provide an overview of the Diploma of Expert Practice (DEP) in Histological Dissection qualification, outlining who it is aimed at and the portfolio and examination structure.
The session will primarily focus on the portfolio requirements of the qualification providing advice and guidance on what should be included so that it is likely to be judged as a pass and how it can be compiled to ensure that it is easy for the examiners to assess it.
Speakers
Chris Ward
