CLSI and APHL Announce Winter and Spring 2009 Teleconferences
WAYNE, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) recently announced the winter and spring 2009 schedule of educational teleconferences for clinical, public health, and veterinary laboratories. Programs, based on current CLSI documents, are intended to help pathologists, managers, supervisors, technologists, and laboratory and quality consultants learn how to optimize practices and processes in their laboratories.
“We listened to the voice of the laboratory community. The topics and presenters selected for the 2009 teleconference series focus on those laboratory processes and practices the laboratory community requested as we performed our education needs assessments. The CLSI-APHL learning events provide the participants with current and up-to-date information on the approved guidelines and standards being practiced in laboratories of all sizes,” said Cathy Johnson, Education Manager, CLSI.
Topics of upcoming teleconferences include:
- Do It Quick! Rapid Identification Methods Using CLSI Document M35-A2 (MS01)
19 March 1:00–2:00 PM Eastern (US) Time
- Smear, Grow, Amplify: Mycobacteria Detection and Identification (MS02)
7 April 3:00–4:00 PM Eastern (US) Time
- On Target: Molecular Tests as Diagnostic Tools for Infectious Agents (MS03)
23 April 3:00–4:00 PM Eastern (US) Time
- Doing It by the Numbers: Making Reference Intervals Manageable (PS02)
7 May 1:00–2:00 PM Eastern (US) Time
- Comparability Testing: Exploring Theoretical and Practical Issues (PS03)
21 May 1:00–2:00 PM Eastern (US) Time
- Antibiograms: Developing Cumulative Reports for Your Clinicians (MS04)
4 June 1:00–2:00 PM Eastern (US) Time
- Objective Decisions: Verify and Validate Laboratory Testing (PS04)
18 June 1:00–2:00 PM Eastern (US) Time
Register for the upcoming teleconferences at www.aphl.org/clsi. Discounts offered for Microbiology, Performance Specification, or full conference series registration.
APHL is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) P.A.C.E.® Program. Participants will be awarded 1.5 contact hours for each successfully completed intermediate-level program. P.A.C.E.® is accepted by all licensure states except Florida. Florida continuing education credit will be offered based on 1.5 hours of instruction.
For additional information on CLSI, to order CLSI documents discussed during the teleconferences, or for further information regarding this release, visit the CLSI website at www.clsi.org or call +610.688.0100.
CLSI, formerly NCCLS, is a global, nonprofit, membership-based organization dedicated to developing standards and guidelines for the health care and medical testing community. CLSI’s unique consensus process facilitates the creation of standards and guidelines that are reliable, practical, and achievable for an effective quality system.
