For the past few years, Bio-Link has been part of a consortium of community colleges that have been working to identify skill standards in multiple areas related to the biosciences. These areas include biomanufacturing, medical devices, and biotechnology laboratory skills, and skills shared by all of these domains.
Core Bioscience Skill Standards
NEW!! Download the Core Skill Standards for Bioscience Technicians booklet: Low resolution version. Medium Resolution version. This booklet contains the complete set of skill standards and describes the process used to develop them.
These standards address skills that are held in common across the industry sectors of biomanufacturing, laboratory skills and medical devices. The complete and current set can be found at c3bc Bioscience Skill Standards along with assessments and a page for matching assessments to the critical work function and key activity.
If you have questions, please contact Jeanette Mowery at jmowery@madisoncollege.edu
This page contains:
A. Collections of biotech-related standards
B. History, feedback and discussions
A. Collections of biotech-related standards
1. Draft of Bioscience Skill Standards for Laboratory Skills Hub, 2015
Contributed by Bio-Link
Description and areas of emphasis: These draft standards / competencies focus on the lab skills needed for an entry level job in the biotech industry.
Link to the Current Draft in Revised Format
Previous draft in list format can be dowloaded here as an MS-Word document
2. Washington State Skill Standards
Contributed by: Shoreline Community College
Description and areas of emphasis: These skill standards cover three major clusters of biotechnology-related careers:
- Research and Development
- Regulatory Affairs
- Manufacturing
View or download the pdf (6 Mb)
3. NBC2 Skill Standards for Biomanufacturing
Contributed by: Northeast Region Biomanufacturing Collaborative
Biomanufacturing Task List
Task Inventory, March 25, 2014 Used to build c3bc common core draft March 25, 2014.
Description and areas of emphasis:
- Upstream Processing
- Downstream Processing
- Quality Control Microbiology
- Quality Control Biochemistry
- Quality Assurance
- Maintenance and Instrumentation Technician
- Validation
- Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S)
- Competency Crosswalk
- 2005 version for ten jobs in biopharmaceutical manufacturing
4. Texas Skill Standards Board information
Contributed by: TSSB
Description and areas of emphasis: Two documents are included here that describe how to develop skill standards.
- Guidelines for the Development, Recognition, and Usage of Skill Standards
- Developing Skill Standards: A User's Guide
- Biomanufacturing Skill Standards (Upstream, Downstream, Microbiology, and Chemistry Technician)
- Biomedical Equipment Technician
The last two sets of standards are the same as the Washington State Skill Standards developed by Shoreline Community College
(Download the pdf - this link as #2 above)
- BioTechnology and Biomedical Skill Standards for Regulatory Affairs and Clinical Trials
- BioTechnology and Biomedical Skill Standards for Research and Development
- TSSB Repository - this has links to skill sets from different kinds of industries
5. Skill Standards for Medical Devices
Contributed by: Dr. Sengyong Lee, Ivy Tech Community College, Bloomington, IN
The Medical Device Core Skills document is an expansion of the Bioscience Core technical skills document which was developed in collaboration with the colleges in the Biomanufacturing, Lab Skills, and Medical Device industry sector hubs of the c3bc Consortium. The Medical Device Core Skills document was developed with extensive input from our industry partners and is intended to be used as a tool for programs developing or revising courses and training materials in the areas of industry related medical device training and education.The group at Ivy Tech identified the medical device industry's common technical skills based on a skill set crosswalk matrix that illustrated the skills in all five functional areas.
Documents:
6. Department of Labor Bioscience Competency Model
Contributed by: U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (DOLETA)
Skills are organized into the sections of a pyramid and you can click on these sections to get more information about the skills in that section:
You can access the pyramid here
B. History, feedback and discussions
Thinking about Core Competencies in Biotech - note there comments & requests from the community at the bottom of the page
If you don't see the presentation, go here: Russ Read on The Community College Consortium for Bioscience Credentials (C3BC)
If you don't see the presentation, go here: Bioscience Laboratory Workforce Skills - part I
If you don't see the presentation, go here: Coalition of State Bioscience Institutes
Link to External Resource:
