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Domestic Cooperative Agreement

Enhanced Testing. Improved Training. ASCP continues to break new ground across a broad spectrum of domestic concerns.

Since 2003, ASCP has implemented a collaborative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others to assess five areas of public health priority. The goal? To assess knowledge and awareness of relevant stakeholders on key subjects, fill gaps with training intervention, and re-evaluate to ensure retention and performance.

Our five focus areas include:

  • Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
  • Chemical Terrorism
  • CLIA Regulations
  • Genetic Testing
  • HIV Rapid Testing

ASCP workgroups collaborate with public and private sector organizations and individuals in order to impact training, testing, evaluation and feedback.

CCCLW Addresses Growing Workforce Shortage
The Coordinating Council on the Clinical Laboratory Workforce (CCCLW), a broad-based coalition of national laboratory associations, industry partners and other health care organizations, held a two-day strategic planning session to discuss the serious workforce shortage facing the clinical laboratory profession. The purpose of the meeting was to develop strategies to increase the number of qualified professionals in the field. more...

ASCP Announces Resident Council Subspecialty Grant Recipients
The American Society for Clinical Pathology has awarded a total of $20,000 in resident grants during the academic year 2008-2009 to defray the cost of doing elective rotations at outside institutions in fields of pathology in which the resident desires intensive exposure, especially in the form of consult material. more...

Update on Pod Lab and Pathology Anti-Markup Lawsuit
A Federal judge has issued a temporary injunction in a lawsuit brought against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for its efforts to prohibit clinicians from marking up the professional or technical component of anatomic pathology services they order but do not perform. more...

Cytotechnology: A Profession on the Move—Then and Now
It began out of a need to support the “invention” and expansion of the Pap test, the most successful screening test in medical history, but it has grown into a profession that supports the diagnostic science of detecting cancer in specimens from virtually any body site. more...

PAX-5 Expression in Pulmonary Neuroendocrine Neoplasms
These tumors can be misclassified owing to morphologic parallels, indicating the necessity for adjunctive tests for correct classification. more...