Charles Uzor wrote:

What should have been professional dialogue between stakeholders has turned into a messy trade war between public servants, each proving to the other the extent it can drag the failing healthcare sector back to the dark ages.

In search of pathology residency sometime ago, I went to visit the head of department of chemical pathology at the Federal Medical Centre Umuahia. A newly minted clinical consultant, he expressed his desire to run a world - class laboratory but needed management's support to procure all necessary equipment so as to get his facility accredited for doctoral - level training.

It is ignorant to say pharmacists and medical laboratory scientists are not health professionals in their own right. My sister is studying pharmacy and would have been in medicine if she did not have a serious aversion for blood.
But it is also dangerously disingenuous to suggest that the job of a medical laboratory scientist is equivalent to that of a medical doctor, or that doctors should not supervise medical laboratory scientists.

I will not discuss the issue of doctors' pay which seems to be one of the controversial issues in the present strike action by the Joint Health Workers Union.

I read in a 2017 paper, the gist of a court order by the National Industrial Court in favour of medical laboratory scientists, that they should run and manage medical laboratories in tertiary hospitals without the interference of doctors. I have also heard fellow professionals claim that doctors do not want them appointed as consultants to lead hospital departments, or laboratory directors to manage laboratories.

They conveniently cite evidence from Britain where medical laboratory scientists are being appointed to consultant scientist posts in the NHS but fail to mention the role doctors play in specifying such roles, in training the scientists and in certifying them. As a matter of fact the Royal College of Pathologists plays a central role in job description review and appointment of scientist consultants. JOHESU will not advocate a similar system because it will give the impression that doctors are important in their own career progression. Let us ignore the fact that the Royal College of Pathologists examines clinical scientists in tough two - stage exams similar to those taken by medical fellows training in the UK, or the fact that 5 - year training programmes to develop the consultant clinical scientist workforce (HSST) began from 2014, after consultations first started in 2005 or thereabouts.

Let us also ignore the fact that consultant clinical scientists' higher specialist scientific training comprises a five-year doctoral-level programme developed in conjunction with medical Royal Colleges. What JOHESU are nicodemously and openly clamoring for, is the arbitrary appointment of their members into senior clinical and research roles without any framework describing their roles, or training regimen prescribed in conjunction with pathologists.

They are quick to tell us that medical laboratory scientists lead medical laboratories even in America, but they won't tell us that highly complex labs such as may be found in tertiary hospitals are only run by properly licensed medical doctors and scientist PhDs. They won't remind us that to be a clinical consultant in a highly complex laboratory in the US, you have to be an MD, DO with current medical license in state of lab’s location AND certified in anatomic and/or clinical pathology by ABP or AOBP or equivalent qualifications, an MD, DO, or DPM with current medical license in state of lab’s location AND 1 year laboratory training during medical residency, an MD, DO, DPM with current medical license in supervising high complexity testing, or a PhD in chemical, physical, biological or clinical laboratory science AND certification by ABMM, ABCC, ABB, ABMLI, or other board deemed comparable by HHS, or an MD, DO, DPM with current medical license in state of lab’s loCharles Uzor wrote:

What should have been professional dialogue between stakeholders has turned into a messy trade war between public servants, each proving to the other the extent it can drag the failing healthcare sector back to the dark ages.

In search of pathology residency sometime ago, I went to visit the head of department of chemical pathology at the Federal Medical Centre Umuahia. A newly minted clinical consultant, he expressed his desire to run a world - class laboratory but needed management's support to procure all necessary equipment so as to get his facility accredited for doctoral - level training.

It is ignorant to say pharmacists and medical laboratory scientists are not health professionals in their own right. My sister is studying pharmacy and would have been in medicine if she did not have a serious aversion for blood.
But it is also dangerously disingenuous to suggest that the job of a medical laboratory scientist is equivalent to that of a medical doctor, or that doctors should not supervise medical laboratory scientists.

I will not discuss the issue of doctors' pay which seems to be one of the controversial issues in the present strike action by the Joint Health Workers Union.

I read in a 2017 paper, the gist of a court order by the National Industrial Court in favour of medical laboratory scientists, that they should run and manage medical laboratories in tertiary hospitals without the interference of doctors. I have also heard fellow professionals claim that doctors do not want them appointed as consultants to lead hospital departments, or laboratory directors to manage laboratories.

They conveniently cite evidence from Britain where medical laboratory scientists are being appointed to consultant scientist posts in the NHS but fail to mention the role doctors play in specifying such roles, in training the scientists and in certifying them. As a matter of fact the Royal College of Pathologists plays a central role in job description review and appointment of scientist consultants. JOHESU will not advocate a similar system because it will give the impression that doctors are important in their own career progression. Let us ignore the fact that the Royal College of Pathologists examines clinical scientists in tough two - stage exams similar to those taken by medical fellows training in the UK, or the fact that 5 - year training programmes to develop the consultant clinical scientist workforce (HSST) began from 2014, after consultations first started in 2005 or thereabouts.

Let us also ignore the fact that consultant clinical scientists' higher specialist scientific training comprises a five-year doctoral-level programme developed in conjunction with medical Royal Colleges. What JOHESU are nicodemously and openly clamoring for, is the arbitrary appointment of their members into senior clinical and research roles without any framework describing their roles, or training regimen prescribed in conjunction with pathologists.

They are quick to tell us that medical laboratory scientists lead medical laboratories even in America, but they won't tell us that highly complex labs such as may be found in tertiary hospitals are only run by properly licensed medical doctors and scientist PhDs. They won't remind us that to be a clinical consultant in a highly complex laboratory in the US, you have to be an MD, DO with current medical license in state of lab’s location AND certified in anatomic and/or clinical pathology by ABP or AOBP or equivalent qualifications, an MD, DO, or DPM with current medical license in state of lab’s location AND 1 year laboratory training during medical residency, an MD, DO, DPM with current medical license in supervising high complexity testing, or a PhD in chemical, physical, biological or clinical laboratory science AND certification by ABMM, ABCC, ABB, ABMLI, or other board deemed comparable by HHS, or an MD, DO, DPM with current medical license in state of lab’s localsCharles Uzor wrote:

What should have been professional dialogue between stakeholders has turned into a messy trade war between public servants, each proving to the other the extent it can drag the failing healthcare sector back to the dark ages.

In search of pathology residency sometime ago, I went to visit the head of department of chemical pathology at the Federal Medical Centre Umuahia. A newly minted clinical consultant, he expressed his desire to run a world - class laboratory but needed management's support to procure all necessary equipment so as to get his facility accredited for doctoral - level training.

It is ignorant to say pharmacists and medical laboratory scientists are not health professionals in their own right. My sister is studying pharmacy and would have been in medicine if she did not have a serious aversion for blood.
But it is also dangerously disingenuous to suggest that the job of a medical laboratory scientist is equivalent to that of a medical doctor, or that doctors should not supervise medical laboratory scientists.

I will not discuss the issue of doctors' pay which seems to be one of the controversial issues in the present strike action by the Joint Health Workers Union.

I read in a 2017 paper, the gist of a court order by the National Industrial Court in favour of medical laboratory scientists, that they should run and manage medical laboratories in tertiary hospitals without the interference of doctors. I have also heard fellow professionals claim that doctors do not want them appointed as consultants to lead hospital departments, or laboratory directors to manage laboratories.

They conveniently cite evidence from Britain where medical laboratory scientists are being appointed to consultant scientist posts in the NHS but fail to mention the role doctors play in specifying such roles, in training the scientists and in certifying them. As a matter of fact the Royal College of Pathologists plays a central role in job description review and appointment of scientist consultants. JOHESU will not advocate a similar system because it will give the impression that doctors are important in their own career progression. Let us ignore the fact that the Royal College of Pathologists examines clinical scientists in tough two - stage exams similar to those taken by medical fellows training in the UK, or the fact that 5 - year training programmes to develop the consultant clinical scientist workforce (HSST) began from 2014, after consultations first started in 2005 or thereabouts.

Let us also ignore the fact that consultant clinical scientists' higher specialist scientific training comprises a five-year doctoral-level programme developed in conjunction with medical Royal Colleges. What JOHESU are nicodemously and openly clamoring for, is the arbitrary appointment of their members into senior clinical and research roles without any framework describing their roles, or training regimen prescribed in conjunction with pathologists.

They are quick to tell us that medical laboratory scientists lead medical laboratories even in America, but they won't tell us that highly complex labs such as may be found in tertiary hospitals are only run by properly licensed medical doctors and scientist PhDs. They won't remind us that to be a clinical consultant in a highly complex laboratory in the US, you have to be an MD, DO with current medical license in state of lab’s location AND certified in anatomic and/or clinical pathology by ABP or AOBP or equivalent qualifications, an MD, DO, or DPM with current medical license in state of lab’s location AND 1 year laboratory training during medical residency, an MD, DO, DPM with current medical license in supervising high complexity testing, or a PhD in chemical, physical, biological or clinical laboratory science AND certification by ABMM, ABCC, ABB, ABMLI, or other board deemed comparable by HHS, or an MD, DO, DPM with current medical license in state of lab’s lo
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