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.
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 [email protected]
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.
Collections of biotech-related standards
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
Contributed by: Shoreline Community College
Description and areas of emphasis: These skill standards cover three major clusters of biotechnology-related careers:
View or download the pdf (6 Mb)
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:
Contributed by: TSSB
Description and areas of emphasis: Two documents are included here that describe how to develop skill standards.
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)
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:
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:
View the Competency Model Pyramid
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
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