Abstract
Since its inception, one of the Society's prime areas of interest and effort has been in the field of education and training. Those of us in the industrial world are aware of this on-going activity. We see it in the continuing debate on our prosthetics/orthotics education programmes and the steady raising of standards. We know of the courses, seminars and conferences, national and international, which ISPO and our National Member Societies provide. This emphasis on education is necessary if we are to maintain and improve standards of patient care.