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, Yvette Taylor¹⁰

The European Union’s Lifelong Learning Leonardo Program awarded funding of over 100,000 euros to a Leonardo Partnership project to facilitate the development of good practice in continuing professional development (CPD) for Biomedical Scientists. A series of high quality CPD activities along with an EU-toolkit are being developed by the project and will be made available to European hospital laboratories via the project website and Community of Practice. This paper reports on transnational evaluation of the second European CPD activity which is based on the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO 15189) standard for Medical Laboratories. Biomedical Scientists from hospital laboratories in Croatia, Czech Republic, Malta and the United Kingdom took part in evaluation of the CPD activity by completion of an evaluation questionnaire and reflective learning sheet. The new CPD activity was exceptionally well received as scores of over 96% were acquired for useful and appropriateness to scope of practice, relevance to CPD, enhancement to scope of practice and enhancement to CPD. This CPD activity has successfully enhanced European Union Biomedical Scientist’s CPD as over 95% of participants rated the exercise as either good or excellent.

continuing professional development, training, medical laboratory science, biomedical scientist