Laboratory medicine is at the heart of modern health care and diagnosis and effective treatment of patients is impossible without high-quality bioanalytical services. The European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine is a professional federation working to ensure high standards across the discipline in all European countries. This article describes our work in science, educa...

The increasing importance, recognised by WHO, of prospective randomised clinical trials has led to discussion of the needfor their careful regulation in the interests of maintaining high professional ethical standards. Ethical problems which do arisefor example where biomedical research in developing countries is sponsored from abroad-may best be handled by specially established professional sc...

In the context of neo-liberal education policy reform, professional teaching standards have become one of the main means of managing improvements to school teaching and assuring its quality. Using the methodology of material semiotics in association with video case data of classroom teaching (in this case, school geography teachers) and their students, the author treats a set of standards in ac...

Following a catalogue of serious, highly publicized medical misdemeanours, the General Medical Council (GMC) has introduced plans for a new system of medical licensing in the UK called 'revalidation'. Under this, the onus will fall on individual doctors, including occupational physicians, to demonstrate their continuing fitness to practice. Doctors will need to show that they meet basic minimum...

We develop a theoretical framework to examine the trade-offs between principlesbased standards and rules-based standards. By relying on quantifiable evidence, a rules-based standard induces evidence management whereas by relying on the auditor’s professional judgement, a principles-based standard induces audit failure. Given evidence management and audit failure, we derive the optimal standard ...

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) "Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes" includes ADA's current clinical practice recommendations and is intended to provide the components of diabetes care, general treatment goals and guidelines, and tools to evaluate quality of care. Members of the ADA Professional Practice Committee, a multidisciplinary expert committee, are responsible for updating th...

The membership of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Standards of Practice Committee represents experts in a broad spectrum of interventional procedures from both the private and academic sectors of medicine. Generally, Standards of Practice Committee members dedicate the vast majority of their professional time to performing interventional procedures; as such, they represent a valid...

THE membership of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Standards of Practice Committee represents experts in a broad spectrum of interventional procedures from both the private and academic sectors of medicine. Generally Standards of Practice Committee members dedicate the vast majority of their professional time to performing interventional procedures; as such they represent a valid b...

The history of public school certification for occupational and physical therapists is reviewed. The process used to develop the current standards for certification of public school occupational therapists in Wisconsin and the standards that resulted are described. The implications of school certification requirements are discussed in terms of basic professional education in occupational therap...

This article addresses how nurse planners and nursing professional development practitioners can meet Educational Design Process 3 in the American Nurses Credentialing Center Primary Accreditation criteria that also corresponds with the Association for Nursing Professional Development Scope and Standards of Practice7. J Contin Educ Nurs. 2018;49(3):102-104.