UEMS SECTION OF MEDICAL BIOPATHOLOGY CORE TRAINING PROGRAMME AND TRAINING RECORD FOR MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY
(INCLUDES BACTERIOLOGY, VIROLOGY, MYCOLOGY AND PARASITOLOGY).

INTRODUCTION
GENERAL AIM

to produce trained medical microbiologists to provide specialist opinion in their clinical discipline and who should have developed the appropriate management skills to lead a department, if required. The trained medical microbiologist should be competent to:
1. Give advice as a physician on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of microbial diseases.
2. provide a scientific basis for laboratory diagnosis; to set protocols and to maintain standards within the laboratory.
3. undertake the management responsibilities required from the director of a medical microbiology laboratory.
4. take charge of infection control in hospitals
5. propose hospital policies on the control of antibiotic usage and on the prevention of hospital acquired infection
6. collaborate with national surveillance organisations and public health authoroties and to provide services for these organisations
7. participate in the training programs for medical microbiologists, infection control doctors and other experts in the field of microbial diseases.
8. undertake research and development in the specialty of microbiological biopathology