With rapid advances in technology, lifelong learning and maintaining your skills in the practice of cytotechnology is more important than ever.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandates that each cytotechnologist and pathologist examining gynecologic preparations enroll in an approved proficiency testing (PT) program. As long as proficiency testing for cytotechnologists and pathologists who examine gynecologic preparations is required by law, ASCP will support members by providing the best available testing solutions.

ASCP GYN PT™ is a CMS-approved gynecological cytology proficiency testing program designed according to federal CLIA regulations to test basic diagnostic skills for gynecological cytology specimens. Choose the test date that is most convenient for you. You’ll receive 100% of the slide prep type you choose in high-quality glass slides that meet ASCP’s rigorous selection standards (with field validation requirements of a minimum of 40 reads and performance of 90% or better to exact response category).

Choose the ASCP GYN PT program that meets the needs of your laboratory:

• ASCP GYN PT™—A proven program that leverages the experience of 17,000 individual test
• ASCP GYN PT and Lab Comparison™—A complete solution that fulfills all gynecological cytology proficiency testing and CAP accreditation requirements for interlaboratory comparison

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