MEDTECH ACT OF 2011

Cards (60)

  • Senate Bill 2722 is otherwise known as
    MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ACT OF 2011
  • In this sectio, The state recognizes the importance of the medical technology profession in nation-building and development through the portals of health care, education, and research. Hence, it shall develop and nurture competent, virtuous, productive, and well-rounded medical technologists whose standard of practice and service shall be world-class.
    Section 2
  • In this section, the state shall promote, regulate and protect the professional practice of Medical Technology in the Philippines and shall ensure its continued growth and development and the maintenance of high international standards of practice.
    Section 2
  • Refers to a clinical laboratory duly licensed by the Department of Health and accredited as a training laboratory by the Commission on Higher Education upon recommendation by the Technical Panel in Medical Technology Education or its equivalent.
    Accredited Medical Technology Training Laboratory
  • Refers to a national organization, recognized and accredited by the Board, as approved by the Professional Regulation Commission, under which all registered medical technologists whose names appear in the roster of Medical Technologists of the Professional Regulation Commission automatically become members.
    Accredited Professional Organization
  • Refers to the Board: of Medical Technology of the Professional Regulation Commission.
    Board
  • refers to a set of standards relating to the conduct, integrity and moral duties of medical technologists as prescribed and promulgated by the duly accredited 

    Code of Professional Ethics
  • Refers to a body composed of two (2) Members of the Board and one (1) legal officer. They shall conduct administrative proceedings for the suspension or revocation of a certificate of registration.
    Hearing Committee
  • Medical Technologist
    Refers to a holder of a Bachelor of Science Degree in Medical Technology (Medical Laboratory Science) or Public Health who is duly registered with the Professional Regulation Commission and is qualified to practice Medical Technology.
  • Refers to a person certified and registered with the Board as qualified to assist a medical technologist in the practice of Medical Technology as defined under Republic Act No. 5527.
    Medical Laboratory Technician
  • Refers to a holder of a Bachelor of Science Degree in Medical Technology  (Medical Laboratory Science) and who has passed an examination for Phlebotomy given by the Board of Medical Technology of the Professional Regulation Commission. 
    Phlebotomist
  • Recognized School of Medical Technology
    Refers to any school, college or university which offers a program in Medical Technology (Medical Laboratory Science) approved by the Commission on Higher Education upon the recommendation of the Technical Panel in Medical Technology Education or its equivalent.
  • Technical Panel in Medical Technology Education
    Refers to the Technical Panel in Medical Technology Education reconstituted or organized under the Office of Programs and Standards of the Commission on Higher Education.
  • refers to the formal or official approval granted to a person, a program or an organization, upon meeting essential requirements of achievement standards, including qualifications or unit(s) of a qualification, usually for a particular period of time, as defined by an accrediting agency
    Accreditation
  • AIPO/APO
    Accredited Integrated Professional Organization or the Accredited Professional Organization
  • ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework
    efers to the device that enables comparisons of qualifications across ASEAN Member States
  • refers to a regional arrangement entered into by the ASEAN Member States, predicated on the mutual recognition of qualifications, requirements met, licenses and certificates granted, experience gained by professionals, in order to enhance mobility of professional services within the region
    ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangement
  • refers to an ability that extends beyond the possession of knowledge and skills, which include cognitive, functional, personal and ethical competence
    Competence
  • Continuing Professional Development
    refers to the inculcation of advanced knowledge, skills and ethical values in a post-licensure specialization or in an inter- or multidisciplinary field of study, for assimilation into professional practice, self-directed research and/or lifelong learning
  • refers to a body created to promote and ensure the continuous improvement of professionals, in accordance with national, regional and international standards of practice
    CPD Council 
  • refers to the value of an amount of learning that can be transferred to a qualification achieved from formal, informal or nonformal learning setting, where in credits can be accumulated to predetermined levels for the award of a qualification
    CPD credit unit 
  • efers to a set of learning activities accredited by the CPD Council such as seminars, workshops, technical lectures or subject matter meetings, nondegree training lectures and scientific meetings, modules, tours and visits, which equip the professionals with advanced knowledge, skills and values in specialized or in an inter- or multidisciplinary field of study, self-directed research and/or lifelong learning

    CPD Program
  • refers to a natural or juridical person accredited by the CPD Council to conduct CPD Programs

    CPD Provider
  • Formal learning
    refers to educational arrangements such as curricular qualifications and teaching-learning requirements that take place in education and training institutions recognized by relevant national authorities, and which lead to diplomas and qualifications
  • refers to learning that occurs in daily life assessed, through the recognition, validation and accreditation process, and which can contribute to a qualification
    Informal learning 
  • refer to what a learner can be expected to know, understand and/or demonstrate as a result of a learning experience
    Learning outcomes
  •  refers to learning activities undertaken throughout fife for the development of competencies and qualifications of the professiona
    Lifelong learning
  • refers to learning that has been acquired in addition or alternatively to formal learning, which may be structured and made more flexible according to educational and training arrangements
    Nonformal learning
  • refer to structured or unstructured learning initiatives, which make use of the internet and other web-based Information and Communications Technology solutions
    Online learning activities
  •  refer to mechanisms that provide access to qualifications and assist professionals to move easily and readily between the different education and training sectors, and between these sectors, and the labor market, through the Philippine Credit Transfer System

    Pathways and Equivalencies
  • refers to the quality assured national system for the development, recognition and award of qualifications at defined levels, based on standards of knowledge, skills and values, acquired in different ways and methods by learners and workers
    Philippine Qualifications Framework
  • refers to a person’s skills, knowledge and competencies that have been acquired through work experience, training, independent study, volunteer activities and hobbies, that may be applied for academic credit, as a requirement of a training program or for occupational certification
    Prior learning
  • refers to a person who is registered and licensed to practice a regulated profession in the Philippines and who holds a valid Certificate of Registration and Professional Identification Card (PIC) from the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC)

    Professional 
  • refers to a status gained after a person has been assessed to have achieved learning outcomes or competencies in accordance with the standard specified for a qualification title, and is proven by a document issued by a recognized agency or body
    Qualification
  • refers to planned and systematic processes that provide confidence in the design, delivery and award of qualifications within an education and training system, and is a component of quality management that is focused on ensuring that quality requirements will be fulfilled
     Quality assurance 
  • refers to learning activities such as online training, local/international seminars/nondegree courses, institution/company-sponsored training programs, and the like, which did not undergo CPD accreditation but maybe applied for and awarded CPD units by the respective CPD Council
    Self-directed learning
  • Article containing CPD PROGRAMS, COUNCILS AND SECRETARIAT
    Article II
  • lead to conferment of diplomas and qualifications
    Formal learning
  • learning than has been acquired in addition to alternatively to formal learning
    Nonformal learning
  • learning occurring in daily life assessed which can contribute to a qualification
    Informal learning