Enhance It - Enhancing Hospital Laboratory Standards for Continuing Professional Development: Transnational Evaluation of a Novel CPD Activity for Biomedical Scientists

Jan Martin^1, , Dorianne Buttigieg², Josef Silhavik³, Zlata Flegar-Meštrić⁴, Alison Adkins⁵, Visnja Gasljevic⁶, Tomáš Šálek³, Attila Horvath⁷, Charles Borg², Mladen Jakovcic⁶, Adrienn Adonics⁷, Zsófia Szlamka⁷, Ian Brincat², Noel Ciantar², Anna Lisa Sciortino², Tracey Bennett⁸, Kirstie Rice⁹ and Yvette Taylor¹⁰

¹University of Wolverhampton United Kingdom

²Mater Dei Hospital Malta

³Tomas Bata Regional Hospital Czech Republic

⁴University Hospital Merkur Croatia

⁵University of Birmingham, UK

⁶Croatian Metrology Society Croatia

⁷Horvath and Dubecz Consulting Ltd Hungary

⁸Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital United Kingdom

⁹Cross Hospital United Kingdom

¹⁰0Birmingham Children’s Hospital United Kingdom

Cite this paper:
Jan Martin, Dorianne Buttigieg, Josef Silhavik, Zlata Flegar-Meštrić, Alison Adkins, Visnja Gasljevic, Tomáš Šálek, Attila Horvath, Charles Borg, Mladen Jakovcic, Adrienn Adonics, Zsófia Szlamka, Ian Brincat, Noel Ciantar, Anna Lisa Sciortino, Tracey Bennett, Kirstie Rice and Yvette Taylor. Enhance It - Enhancing Hospital Laboratory Standards for Continuing Professional Development: Transnational Evaluation of a Novel CPD Activity for Biomedical Scientists. American Journal of Educational Research. 2014; 2(11):1110-1114. doi: 10.12691/education-2-11-18

Abstract

A project which has received funding of over 100,000 euros from the European Union’s Lifelong Learning Leonardo Programis developing good practice in continuing professional development (CPD) for Biomedical Scientists. The Partnership is developing an EU-toolkit for delivery of high quality CPD activities provided by European hospital laboratories. This paper reports on the first stage of the project which is transnational evaluation of a novel European CPD activity by hospital laboratories in Croatia, Czech Republic, Malta and the United Kingdom.

Keywords:
continuing professional development training medical laboratory science biomedical scientist

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