Institute of Medical Laboratory Technology

Abstract

THE Institute of Medical Laboratory Technology, which was incorporated in November 1942, with registered offices at 308 Dewsbury Road, Wakefield, Yorks, has issued a memorandum and articles of association. All scientific workers will commend the objects of this Institute. As its secretary, Mr. S. J. Denyer, says, its formation "indicates the desire of the laboratory technician to meet the increased demands of his profession and to acquire the professional status already accorded to other scientific workers". The Institute incorporates the Pathological and Bacteriological Laboratory Assistants Association and takes over the publication of the Laboratory Journal and the Monthly Bulletin previously issued by that Association. To meet modern demands, the Institute requires an approved educational standard as one qualification for membership. Ordinary members or associates of the Pathological and Bacteriological Laboratory Assistants Association may become ordinary members of the Institute by application, but others must be elected; they must be not less than twenty years old, they must have had not less than three years experience in an approved pathological, bacteriological or chemical pathology laboratory and must pass an intermediate examination controlled by the Institute. Candidates for the associateship of the Institute must either hold the certificate of the parent Association in one subject or must, after completing five years training in an approved laboratory and attaining the age of twenty-two, pass the Institute's final examination in one subject. Fellows must have been registered members of the parent Association for ten or more years, or must hold that Association's certificates in two or more subjects; in either case they can become fellows by application. Others may be elected to fellowship if they are already associates of the Institute and either pass the Institute's final examination in two or more subjects or submit an acceptable thesis, and have also been associates of the Institute for ten or more years, inclusive of previous registered membership of the parent Association.