Greetings fellow bloggers! 
Just a short note really...to tell you all I passed my IBMS assessment! Yeay! 
My assessor said that I would make a very very good biomedical scientist...I decided not to upet the apple cart and tell him that I was actually starting a PhD on Monday! I just grinned a lot at the complement!
He first sat down with me for the informal chit-chat bit...he asks me what I liked and didn't like about my training and which aspect I most enjoyed, that sort of thing, then I had to give him a 30 minute tour of the lab. This one was a bit tricky...as I'm sure most of you have established my now, I do have a tendancy to go on a bit, and theres lots of things I wanted to squeeze into that 30 minute tour! I probably went on for a bit longer than that, but he was asking questions as we went round too. After that the poor assessor had to sit and read through my portfolio - not an enviable job! It's not very interesting; basically the portfolio asks you a bunch of questions, and your answers determine your suitability to working in a medical laboratory. So, like I said, not very interesting.
Once he's worked his way through that, the assessor calls you back for another chit-chat, firstly to tell you whether you've passedor not, then what you could have improved on and what your training lab could do better on. And that was it!
I'm so pleased I've passed...I'm not a trainee any more! 
Hope everyone else is having just as good a day too!
Happy Cheryl
xx
impette
Congratulations! I did my degree in Biomedical Science and did my year out in a Microbiology lab, where I completed the dreaded log book. In the end I never had to face the viva as I didn't get a date through before my graduate training scheme started - I hear from my old course mates that it is more than a little nerve racking! Hope you are having a good night out to celebrate. Good luck with the PhD and well played that girl!
Impette x