American Society for Clinical Pathology

FAQs

If you have questions, please contact ASCP Customer Services at 800.267.2727, option 2.

Purchasing Online Education Courses

Click “Take an online course” from the right side of ASCP homepage. You will be directed to the ASCP eLearning store.

Select a featured item from ASCP’s latest eLearning offerings section of the page.

Click on a topic course title to learn more about the course, or to purchase, click

You will then be prompted to login if not already logged in.

Next, you will see your shopping cart with item(s) to purchase; click and provide payment information located at the bottom of your screen.

Finally, click “Place my Order” to complete your purchase.

Accessing your Free CE Exercises

Login from the right side of ASCP homepage. You can login using your username or user ID that was assigned when you created your account. Your password is case sensitive.

After a successful login, you will see a welcome message in red with your name. Click “My ASCP” from welcome box.

Click on “Manage Free CE Credits” located in the Education Home section of page.

On the following screen, you are presented with two columns (Available Free CE Courses and Selected/Completed Free CE Courses).

Place a check mark adjacent to the course(s) you want, then click “Select” to move to the select column. To remove unwanted course(s), place a check mark adjacent to the course(s) you do not want, then click “Remove”.

When you are done, click “My Courses & Exams” to access your selected courses. Note: Please be sure you want the selected courses before you click “My Courses & Exams.” This process cannot be reversed.

Finally, click on “Product code” to start your course.

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