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I know my question has no correct answer, but I'd like to know your experiences in your labs from yourselves and your colleagues.
Off-topic conversations and chit-chat.
Once you think you have mastered something, that something will invariably "turn around and bite you in the ass".
Peter Apps wrote:
"Techniques" and "methods" are different - but you knew that, right ?
Any "method" (aka an SOP in some labs) that is written in a way that a good technician (i.e. one who knows the techniques) cannot follow and get good results on first run through needs to be re-written. So, a good technician can master any number of methods.
Techniques are broader than methods, for example GC-MS is a techniques that can be used in a wide range of methods. It is in the nature of things that jacks of all trades are masters of none; specialization allows deeper penetration into any field, and then you question can be re-phrased as "How good do you have to be to be a master" - does a Masters degree cut it ?.
Peter
mariosapm wrote:
A good SOP can never be as good as you describe in my opinion. . Do you agree?
Peter Apps wrote:
what they called a "method" was to put a column in the GC, inject a standard, set a temperature programme and if the peak came out you had a method
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