IFCC Professional Exchange Programmes (PEP)
IFCC offers a small number of scholarships each year to
facilitate professional exchange programmes for young scientists.
The purpose of professional exchange programmes is to:
- Promote international co-operation between laboratories
- Facilitate the exchange of young laboratory scientists between
IFCC Member societies
- Share high level scientific or management skills
- Introduce new or improved scientific or management skills to
the applicant's laboratory
IFCC has developed two categories of professional exchange
programme:
- Professional Scientific Exchange Programme (PSEP)
- Professional Management Exchange Programme (PMEP)
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• These exchange programmes are open for laboratories in all
countries where an IFCC member society is active •
• National societies Members of IFCC may support a maximum of
one Professional Exchange Programme
in any one calendar year •
• National societies Members of IFCC may support a maximum of
one Professional Exchange Programme per applicant •
• IFCC has no role in finding placements for postgraduate or
postdoctoral study •
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Download PEP
Application form
Download PEP Preliminary Information
IFCC PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT EXCHANGE PROGRAMME (PMEP)
The purpose of a PMEP is to develop appropriate quality
management skills in order to improve the performance and quality
of service offered to patients by the base laboratory.
Applications for a Professional Management Exchange Programme
(PMEP) may only come from IFCC Full Member or Affiliate Member
national societies that are in countries where quality management
and/or laboratory accreditation are at an early stage of
development.
Examples of PMEP include:
- Acquiring skills to introduce effective internal quality
control;
- Acquiring skills to introduce an external quality assurance
scheme to a country;
- Acquiring skills to introduce quality management to the base
laboratory;
- Preparation to enable the base laboratory to apply for
laboratory accreditation in line with ISO Standard 15189;
The host laboratory for a PMEP will normally be in the same IFCC
Region as the applicant.
PROFESSIONAL SCIENTIFIC EXCHANGE PROGRAMME (PSEP)
The purpose of a PSEP is to exchange or develop high level
scientific information or skills.
Applications for a PSEP may come from any IFCC Full Member or
Affiliate Member national society.
Examples of suitable PSEP projects include (but are not
restricted to):
- Conduct of a collaborative research project between base and
host laboratories;
- Use of a method or technique not available in the base
laboratory in order to complete a research project;
- Learning a new method or technique in the host laboratory which
will be introduced into the base laboratory after the PSEP is
complete;
- Completion of a collaborative evidence-based scientific project
such as the preparation of a systematic review;
Scientific publications resulting from this exchange
programme have to acknowledge IFCC's support.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Applicants:
Applicants for an IFCC professional exchange programme
will:
- Be a member of an IFCC Full Member or Affiliate Member national
society
- Be aged under 40 years at the time of the exchange
programme
- Haven't received funding from IFCC for other PEPs
- Have a specific project to complete in a designated host
laboratory
- Have the written support of:
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- The head of department in which he/she is based
- The head of the host laboratory to be visited
- The national society of which he/she is a member
Duration of Exchanges:
IFCC Support:
Successful applicants will be entitled to receive:
- Economy return travel expenses from his/her home base to the
host laboratory.
- Subsistence at the rate of 1500 Swiss Francs per month for a
maximum of three months.
Report/Acknowledgement
At the completion of a professional exchange programme the
successful applicant is required to:
- Write a short report of his/her experience for publication in
IFCC News.
- Where appropriate, submit a scientific paper for publication in
the electronic journal of IFCC.
List of Documents needed:
Curriculum vitae
Copy of passport or identity document
Letter of support of national ifcc society
Letter of support of the head of applicant's
department
Letter of support of the head of the host
laboratory
Detailed project description
Submission of applications:
Applications must be made on the PMEP/PSEP application form and
must be emailed any time to the Exchange Programme
co-ordinator:
Dr. Graham BEASTALL: president@ifcc.org
And CC to the IFCC Office: ifcc@ifcc.org