# Competences — specialist biomedical scientist

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/acbb7a20-c947-480d-a07e-868a0ab3eab8).

## Essential

- **accept own accountability** (skill/competence)
- **adhere to organisational guidelines** (skill/competence)
- **advise on healthcare users' informed consent** (skill/competence)
- **apply context specific clinical competences** (skill/competence)
- **apply organisational techniques** (skill/competence)
- **apply safety procedures in laboratory** (skill/competence)
- **biosafety in biomedical laboratory** (knowledge)
- **comply with legislation related to health care** (skill/competence)
- **conduct health related research** (skill/competence)
- **contribute to continuity of health care** (skill/competence)
- **deal with emergency care situations** (skill/competence)
- **dermapathology** (knowledge)
- **develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship** (skill/competence)
- **diagnose disorders of the urogenital system** (skill/competence)
- **educate on the prevention of illness** (skill/competence)
- **empathise with the healthcare user** (skill/competence)
- **ensure safety of healthcare users** (skill/competence)
- **follow code of ethics for biomedical practices** (skill/competence)
- **hygiene in a health care setting** (knowledge)
- **interact with healthcare users** (skill/competence)
- **keep up to date with diagnostic innovations** (skill/competence)
- **listen actively** (skill/competence)
- **make clinical decisions** (skill/competence)
- **manage healthcare users' data** (skill/competence)
- **manage infection control in the facility** (skill/competence)
- **medical informatics** (knowledge)
- **monitor biomedical equipment stock** (skill/competence)
- **multidisciplinary research** (knowledge)
- **perform cerebrospinal fluid analysis** (skill/competence)
- **perform pathology consultations** (skill/competence)
- **perform reconstructive microsurgery** (skill/competence)
- **perform transcranial magnetic stimulation** (skill/competence)
- **promote inclusion** (skill/competence)
- **provide health education** (skill/competence)
- **provide test results to medical staff** (skill/competence)
- **provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health** (skill/competence)
- **record data from biomedical tests** (skill/competence)
- **report the results of treatment** (skill/competence)
- **respond to changing situations in health care** (skill/competence)
- **train employees** (skill/competence)
- **use e-health and mobile health technologies** (skill/competence)
- **validate biomedical analysis results** (skill/competence)
- **work in a multicultural environment in health care** (skill/competence)
- **work in multidisciplinary health teams** (skill/competence)

## Optional

- advise patients on infectious diseases when travelling (skill/competence)
- clinical immunopathology (knowledge)
- electroencephalography (knowledge)
- examine samples in dermatology (skill/competence)
- explain the molecular basis of a disease to patients (skill/competence)
- explain types of coagulation disorders (skill/competence)
- have computer literacy (skill/competence)
- hepatology (knowledge)
- interpret electromyograms (skill/competence)
- intracranial hypertension (knowledge)
- medical parasitology (knowledge)
- neoplasia (knowledge)
- perform diagnostic testing for allergies (skill/competence)
- perform virological test (skill/competence)
- research new treatments for blood related disorders (skill/competence)
- supervise nursing staff (skill/competence)