The Ministry of labour and immigration has been made public in the Official Gazette the professionalism in electromedical equipment of level 3 certificate.

-these certificates are media training and accreditation of professional qualifications

Madrid, June of 2011- the Ministry of labour and immigration, through the public service of State employment (SEPE)It has been made public in the official State Bulletin (BOE) professionalism in electromedical equipment of level 3 certificate laid down in Royal Decree 683/2011.

Professionals who can benefit from certificate level 3, called ‘ management and supervision of installation and maintenance of systems of electro ’, will be those that develop their professional activity in public and private health centres, services of electromedical equipment and manufacturers, distributors or providers of services of Electromedicine, in the departments of technical assistance or customer, both employed or self-employed.

Professional development activity will be to plan, manage and supervise the installation and maintenance of implantable medical active not in electromedical equipment systems and their associated facilities, under criteria of quality, safe and in compliance with the existing rules.

Certificates of professionalism are an instrument of official accreditation of professional qualifications, which trained workers for the development of a labour activity with significance for the employment and ensures the necessary training for their acquisition, in the framework of the subsystem of vocational training for employment ”says Jesus Lucinio Manzanares Pedroche, President of the Spanish society of Electromedicine and Clinical Engineering (SEEIC) and one of the main promoters from the society of this project.

From the SEEIC has been coordinated, together with the General Sub-Directorate for active policies on employment and training management of the public service of employment, the creation and implementation of a working group, piloted by the Ministry of labour and immigration. no doubt, the official publication of the certificate of level 3 in electromedical equipment represents a decisive step towards the professionalization of the sector, which will result in a continuous improvement of safety and quality of care provided in the national system of health ”, says the President of the SEEIC.

The starting point to begin the work of the Working Group, which has finally achieved this important milestone was the inclusion in the national catalogue of professional qualifications, the National Institute of qualifications (INCUAL), belonging to the Ministry of education, of two new qualifications in electromedical equipment, as well as the publication in the Official Gazette of the professional in electromedical equipment of level 2 certificate.

Certificates of professionalism are media training and accreditation of professional qualifications. In both cases, the unit’s competence is creditable minimum unit to obtain a certificate of professional.

The last December, the Ministry of Finance made public the Royal Decree 1591 / 2010, which approved the national classification of occupations (CNO) in 2011, also at international level, by the International Labour Office (ILO), updating, and including the electro in the international standard classification of occupations.

Present and future of the SEEIC

The Spanish society of Electromedicine and Clinical Engineering (SEEIC) is a national institution for scientific and technical character acting, among others, with the goal of being the partner to promote to the public and private agencies, management and professional standards of the standards and requirements necessary for the correct application of the electromedical equipment.

He is a pioneer in Spain society, whose members work in corporations, health centres and other organizations and institutions associated with the electromédica technology.

The challenges of this scientific society point towards implementing short-term up certificates of professionalism and an own qualification, up to now formally non-existent, to respond to a training and regulation of the sector of the Electromedicine and clinical engineering in Spain and to the consolidation of the relevant professional categories in mass-market hospitalsfacilities and deprived of the country, and in the companies of the sector with a very direct condition in continuous improvement of the healthcare quality and safety in the application and use of electro-medical equipment and systems.

On the other hand, according to its aim of collaborating in the preparation of the professionals who carry out tasks related to the electromedical equipment, the company has own training programmes covering various technical and management issues related to its sphere of action.