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To check your eligibility to upgrade, please check you meet the requirements set out for each grade:
Licentiate
UK degree graduate
You may be eligible to upgrade to Licentiate membership if you are an eStudent or Associate member and hold a UK BSc Hons degree in a subject related to biomedical science.
To check your eligibility, please send a copy of your degree certificate to subs@ibms.org.
Overseas qualifications graduate
If you did not graduate with a UK BSc (Hons) in a subject related to biomedical science but have a minimum of one year's professional experience and currently work at the level of a HCPC registered biomedical scientist, you may be eligible to upgrade to Licentiate membership.
To check your eligibility, please provide a supporting statement from your laboratory manager confirming that your professional experience equates to that of an honours graduate along with a copy of your degree certificate to subs@ibms.org.
Member
You may be able to upgrade to become a Member if you have one or more of the following:
- an IBMS Specialist qualification
- an equivalent level vocational qualification, such as the STP, BBTS Specialist Certificate, or BSHI diploma
- a completed Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine (CPSM) logbook or the old IBMS discipline specific logbook
- an M-Level academic qualification (in a subject relevant to biomedical science) with two years’ professional experience (please provide copy of your up-to-date CV)
To upgrade, please email subs@ibms.org.
Fellow
You may be eligible to upgrade to become a Fellow if you have one or more of the following:
- an IBMS Higher or Advanced qualification like the IBMS Higher Specialist Diploma or Diploma of Higher Specialist Practice
- an equivalent level vocational qualification, such as the Higher Specialist Scientific Training (HSST)
- a D-Level academic qualification (in a subject relevant to biomedical science) with five years’ relevant professional experience (please provide copy of your up-to-date CV).
To upgrade, please email subs@ibms.org.
Upgrade requirements
To upgrade your membership you are required to email subs@ibms.org with a copy of your certificate for your completed qualification.
We will accept official notification of your degree results on University headed paper but you must also send in a copy of your degree certificate once it has been issued.
Membership fees
If you upgrade your membership and have already paid your annual subscription fee in full, you will not pay the higher membership grade’s membership fee until the next calendar year.
Once your upgrade has been processed, you will be able to enjoy all the benefits of your new grade of membership.
If you are paying by monthly direct debit, your new membership fee will be automatically amended once your upgrade is processed.
If your annual subscription fee is still outstanding you have to pay the membership fee for your new grade of membership once your upgrade is processed.
View the latest IBMS subscription fees.
Overseas graduates
If you would like to upgrade your IBMS membership with a qualification attained outside the UK, you will need to contact UK ENIC to have your qualification verified.
Please note
The IBMS Membership Team may be able to check the comparability of your qualifications for the purpose of being admitted to IBMS membership, with UK ENIC for a fee of £30. However, we will not be able to issue you with a UK ENIC Statement of Comparability. Please contact mc@ibms.org for further information.