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IBMS Accredited universities can request copies of the Registration Training Portfolio
To order your print or digital copies of IBMS Registration Training Portfolios, follow the instructions relating to your IBMS Accredited degree course:
Integrated degrees
Ordering portfolios
Digital copies of the Registration portfolio can be requested from registration@ibms.org.
Physical copies can be purchased.
To order, once the students are sent on placement, please complete and submit our Student Placement Spreadsheet to registration@ibms.org. This will enable the Education team to register the students and aid prompt delivery of certificates at the end of the process.
Completing the portfolio
The training laboratory’s training officer should sign off standards met through course assignments. Portfolio verification should be arranged by the university by one of their trained portfolio verifiers.
Following verification of students' portfolios, course tutors should send a pass list of students to registration@ibms.org
Once the IBMS Registration Team has notified the HCPC, students will be able to contact the HCPC to apply to register as a biomedical scientist.
IBMS Sandwich degree
Ordering the portfolio
The IBMS approved laboratory, where a student undertakes their placement, is responsible for ordering the IBMS Registration Training Portfolio for them.
The laboratory manager or training officer will need to complete the Registration Training Application Form and send to registration@ibms.org along with:
- payment
- a copy of the candidate's birth certificate, or a scan of the personal details page of their passport
- confirmation of the student's enrolment on an IBMS accredited degree course.
Application forms and payment can also be posted to:
Registration Team
IBMS
12 Coldbath Square
London
EC1R 5HL
Completing the portfolio
The laboratory training officer should sign off standards met through course assignments. Portfolio verification should be arranged by the laboratory training officer.
To request a portfolio verification, the laboratory training officer should complete and submit a Verification Request Form to registration@ibms.org.
Once the IBMS Registration Team has received the verifier's report (completed and sent by the IBMS verifier) and the Verification Laboratory Feedback Form (completed and sent by the laboratory manager or training officer) students should send a copy of their degree certificate and a cover letter to registration@ibms.org
Alternatively, they can post to:
Registration Team
IBMS
12 Coldbath Square
London
EC1R 5HL
The Registration Team will then send the student an IBMS Certificate of Competence and they will be able to contact the HCPC to apply to register as a biomedical scientist.
Further resources
IBMS Registration Training Portfolio Guidance (Candidates and Training Officers)
For further information on IBMS degree accreditation, Registration Training Portfolio or Certificate of Competence, please contact registration@ibms.org.