From doctors' surgery assistant to biomedical scientist
28 of the 98 essential skills of a biomedical scientist are already essential for a doctors' surgery assistant — about 29% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 28
- skills carry over
- 70
- would be new
- 29%
- of the target job covered
- 98
- essential skills of a biomedical scientist
What a biomedical scientist does
Biomedical scientists perform all laboratory methods required as part of medical examination, monitoring, treatment, and research activities which involves designing, planning, organizing, applying, evaluating, interpreting and validating all analytical processes. They develop their activity in several fields of expertise such as haematology, microbiology, clinical immunology, cytopathology, histopathology, immunohistochemistry, and clinical biochemistry among others. This requires the application of qualitative and quantitative laboratory methods, including image analysis and digital pathology, to provide an investigative report and diagnostic opinion on products of a biological nature.
What carries over
28 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- educate on the prevention of illness
- follow clinical guidelines
- health care legislation
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- manage healthcare users' data
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- professional documentation in health care
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- provide test results to medical staff
- respond to changing situations in health care
- techniques of blood-sampling
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
What would be new
70 skillsEssential for a biomedical scientist and not for a doctors' surgery assistant. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- analyse body fluids
- analyse cell cultures
- analytical methods in biomedical sciences
- apply good clinical practices
- apply safety procedures in laboratory
- apply scientific methods
- assist in the production of laboratory documentation
- automated analysers in the medical laboratory
- bioethics
- biological chemistry
- biological haematology
- biology
- biomedical science
- biomedical scientists' role in health care system
- biomedical techniques
- biophysics
- biosafety in biomedical laboratory
- biostatistics
- blood transfusion
- carry out biopsy
- chemistry
- clinical biochemistry
- clinical cytology
- clinical immunology
- clinical microbiology
- conduct health related research
- cross-matching techniques for blood transfusions
- densiometry
- dermapathology
- diagnose disorders of the urogenital system
- diagnostic methods in medical laboratory
- embryology
- epidemiology
- health care occupation-specific ethics
- histology
- histopathology
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- hygiene in a health care setting
- immunohaematology
and 30 more
Other moves from doctors' surgery assistant
2 roles- orthoptist30 skills in common
- speech and language therapist30 skills in common
← doctors' surgery assistantbiomedical scientist →The other way round
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