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Healthcare scientist

A healthcare scientist (HCS), or medical scientist, is a scientist working in any of a number of health related disciplines. Healthcare scientists may work directly for health service providers, or in academia or industry. Healthcare scientists typically refers to those contributing directly to clinical services, and not scientists working solely in health related research and development.

Disciplines

Boundaries between healthcare science and other related fields are not strictly defined. There are more than 50 different specialisms. Healthcare scientists work in clinical bioinformatics, life sciences, physical sciences and physiological sciences. A non-exhaustive list of healthcare science roles is below.

  • Medical physicist
  • Biomedical scientist
  • Audiologist
  • Clinical cytogeneticist
  • Clinical embryologist
  • Neurophysiological scientist
  • Vascular scientist
  • Cardiac scientist

Organization

Regulation and organization of healthcare scientists varies significantly from country to country, and from discipline to discipline.

Europe

United Kingdom

There are over 50,000 healthcare scientists working in the NHS. Biomedical Scientist and Clinical scientist are a protected title in the United Kingdom, requiring state registration. The Health and Care Professions Council holds the register and regulates the profession. The main routes to registration and training are through courses run by the Institute of Biomedical Science or the National School of Healthcare Science.

North America

United States

According to the bureau of labor statistics, there were 120,000 medical scientists working in the United States in 2016.

References

References

  1. (12 September 2018). "'The NHS is not just doctors and nurses': five hidden roles". The Guardian.
  2. "Healthcare Science Practitioners".
  3. (17 March 2013). "So what does a healthcare scientist do, exactly?". The Guardian.
  4. (20 September 2017). "Roles in healthcare science".
  5. "What is healthcare science?".
  6. "Clinical Science Professional Bodies".
  7. "Clinical scientist registration".
  8. "About us".
  9. "Medical Scientists : Occupational Outlook Handbook".
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