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A project which has received funding of over 100, 000 euros from the European Union’s Lifelong Learning Leonardo Programis developing good practice in continuing professional development (CPD) for Biomedical Scientists. The Partnership is developing an EU-toolkit for delivery of high quality CPD activities provided by European hospital laboratories. This paper reports on the first stage of the project which is transnational evaluation of a novel European CPD activity by hospital laboratories in Croatia, Czech Republic, Malta and the United Kingdom.

Together with Philippians, Ephesians, and Philemon, Colossians is considered as a prison letter. It is addressed to “… the saints and faithful brethren in Christ at Colossae” (Col 1:2). Colossae was situated in Phrygia (modern-day Turkey), in the Lycus valley, in proximity to the cities of Laodicea and Hierapolis. While in its heyday the city was described as populous and wealthy, by the beginning of the Christian era, Colossae was on the wane and was eventually surpassed by neighbouring Laodicea and Hierapolis. The believers of the community at Colossae were not converted by Paul himself. While the missionary work was directed by Paul, several churches founded in the province of Asia were founded by his co-workers. Such was the case with Colossae, Laodicea and Hierapolis, considered the result of the missionary work of Epaphras (Col 1:7-8). The population of Colossae comprised mainly native Phrygians and Greeks, together with a significant number of Jews. It has been suggested that most of the community were gentile converts due to allusions to a non-Christian past.8 In Col 1:21 it is stated: “And you, who once were estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds ….” However, God “… had effected a mighty change in their lives: he had reconciled them to himself in an earth-shattering event, namely, Christ’s physical death on the cross,”, peer-reviewed

The European Union’s Lifelong Learning Leonardo Program awarded funding of over 100, 000 euros to a Leonardo Partnership project to facilitate the development of good practice in continuing professional development (CPD) for Biomedical Scientists. A series of high quality CPD activities along with an EU-toolkit are being developed by the project and will be made available to European hospital laboratories via the project website and Community of Practice. This paper reports on transnational evaluation of the second European CPD activity which is based on the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO 15189) standard for Medical Laboratories. Biomedical Scientists from hospital laboratories in Croatia, Czech Republic, Malta and the United Kingdom took part in evaluation of the CPD activity by completion of an evaluation questionnaire and reflective learning sheet. The new CPD activity was exceptionally well received as scores of over 96% were acquired for useful and appropriateness to scope of practice, relevance to CPD, enhancement to scope of practice and enhancement to CPD. This CPD activity has successfully enhanced European Union Biomedical Scientist’s CPD as over 95% of participants rated the exercise as either good or excellent.