ASCP Certificate Programs

LMU Fundamentals

Course Area Highlights

Hone your skills covering six core competencies and expand your technical understanding in key areas.

• Leadership
  
  • Apply modern elements of management theory
  • Learn essential elements for strategic planning
  • Apply influence strategies to promote patient safety and improve patient outcomes
• Personnel Management
  
  • Identify training and certification needed for medical laboratory sciences professionals
  • Diagnose performance problems and implement coaching best practices
  • Understand delegation and effective communication skills
• Operations
  
  • Learn about the CLSI Quality Management System (QMS) framework for the laboratory
  • Recognize the differences between implementing a commercially available and a laboratory-developed test
  • Understand competency assessment requirements for testing personnel from a regulatory and accreditation agency (e.g. CAP) perspective
• Financial Management
  
  • Identify key strategies in pathology revenue cycle management
  • Discuss the importance of budget preparation in the context of operational planning.
  • Prepare and justify a budget for a hospital or clinical laboratory
• Informatics
  • Explore Digital Pathology
  • Review Tips for working with inspectors
  • Understand how different LIS systems affect your laboratory
• Compliance
  • List the basic elements of a model compliance plan
  • Learn the main OSHA regulations that direct a laboratory safety program
  • Understand how a Quality Management system contributes to patient safety

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LMU Advanced

The LMU Advanced program offers 10 courses on advanced laboratory management topics, plus an innovative 15-credit Portfolio Development course. You'll be guided through the creation, setup and deployment of your own web-based professional portfolio.

Upon completion, you will also earn your advanced certificate in laboratory management.

Course Area Highlights

Hone your skills covering six core competencies and expand your technical understanding in key areas.

• Leadership
  
  • Learn to identify, anticipate, and respond to major changes in the laboratory environment 
  • Identify and anticipate internal and external factors that could initiate significant workflow changes 
• Personnel Management
  
  • Develop effective mentoring skills for all technical and administrative levels within your organization
• Operations
  
  • Apply workflow analysis methods to improve lab processes
• Financial Management
  
  • Review the use of the strategic planning process in budget preparation
• Informatics
  
  • Understand how to design, validate, and implement auto-verification rules using CLSI guidelines
• Compliance
  
  • Learn to develop an individualized quality control plan

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Overview

Courses

Created for pathologists, residents and laboratory professionals, LMU is a customizable program for individuals planning on moving into management positions, or who are in the management realm and want to bolster their experience. Discover why LMU has already grown to over 12,000 participants worldwide.

LMU Core Competencies Package

Are you looking for discipline specific training in just one or two core areas and not the full Lab Management University offering? Or do you want to try a taste of LMU before you buy the complete Fundamentals package? Then the LMU Core Competencies Sample Pack is the ideal offer for you.

Flexible and customizable, LMU was created for everyone, including those who are either currently in or aspiring to be in leadership positions in the lab. Available course options covering varying skill sets and experience levels teach Lab Professionals, Pathologists, and Pathology Residents alike the practical skills needed to elevate their careers.

Course Area Highlights

The LMU Core Competencies Sample Pack for ASCP Members only and allows you to sample the incredible content available in LMU by creating a customized package. Pick from any of the six core areas:

• Leadership
• Personnel Management
• Operations
• Financial Management
• Informatics
• Compliance

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Overview

University of Path Informatics (UPI) is a joint effort between the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) and the Association for Pathology Informatics (API).  The UPI Certificate Program consists of 20 custom courses: 12 core and 8 elective course are required to earn the certificate.

University of Pathology Informatics (UPI) is a case-based program, where you act as the project leader developing a pathology informatics needs assessment for a laboratory. It focuses on four essential laboratory informatics competencies:

• Information Fundamentals
• Information Systems
• Workflow & Processes
• And Governance & Management

Requirements for Earning a Certificate

You are required to complete 20 courses across four laboratory informatics competencies, to earn the UPI Certificate of Completion. These include tasks and topics such as: 

• Preparing an Executive Brief
• Information Fundamentals
• Information Systems
• Workflow & Processes 
• Governance & Management

All courses are offered online; however, a select number of pre-approved live sessions will be offered at the API and ASCP live meetings at additional costs. 

• Twelve core modules, modules 1-12, are required. 
• In addition, you must also take eight enduring materials electives. 
• Choose electives appropriate for your individual skill needs to meet the 20- course requirement. 
• To receive credit for online or live courses, you must pass an online quiz with a score of 80% or better in three attempts.

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Course Components 

All online instructional strategies are approximately 90 minutes and consist of: 

• A pre-reading assignment
• An engaging online multimedia activity
• Knowledge checks
• Case studies
• And the downloadable eBook Pathology Informatics: Theory & Practice

Each course also includes a post-test of five to 10 questions. You are allowed three attempts to take the test and need a score of 80% or higher. You can earn 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, CMLE, or SAMs CME credits for each course completed.

Learning Objectives

After completing 20 required and elective on-demand courses, you will be able to:

• Conduct an informatics audit of existing lab systems including hardware, software, peripherals and databases
• Create a high-level dataflow diagram of the laboratory network
• Document existing workflow and create a high-level redesign of workflow process in light of a new LIS
• Prepare an executive brief addressing:
  
  • The challenge of legacy systems
  • Opportunities for process improvement and integration with EMR
  • Workflow impact of a new LIS
  • Suggestions for next steps

How to Complete UPI

The curriculum focuses on the four laboratory informatics competencies: Information Fundamentals, Information Systems, Workflow & Processes, and Governance & Management. UPI participants also have access to a wide variety of bonus materials, including Pathology Informatics: Theory & Practice (eBook).

Course Prerequisite

Student Assessments

Self-assessments can be very helpful in determining where your strengths and weaknesses lie. The following assessment will help you determine areas to work on as you progress through the UPI program. The assessment will take approximately 15 to 20 minutes to complete. 

This skills assessment is a requirement for completing the first course in the University of Pathology Informatics program. 

• Please review and answer the questions honestly to determine the areas upon which to concentrate. 
• The results will not be shared with anyone and are for research purposes only. 
• Once you have successfully fulfilled the requirements for the UPI Certificate of Completion, you will be asked to complete this assessment again.

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Comprehensive Leadership Training for the Laboratory Medicine Team

Leadership Certificate Program

Strengthen Your Skills, Advance Your Career

• Register for 10 online, on-demand courses as part of the Leadership Certificate program.
• Gain insight into your own leadership behavior and identify areas for improvement by taking the pre-course self-assessment included with each course. Self-assessments can be downloaded for future reference.
• Earn up to 2.5 CME/CMLE/SAMs credits per course, as all courses are accredited through the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
• Complete a course with approximately one to two hours of work.
• Apply live courses and courses offered via on-site facilitation towards completion of the Leadership Certificate program.
• Receive the Leadership Certificate upon completion of the program.

Download the Leadership Institute Certificate Program Syllabus

On-Site Facilitation

Customize Courses for Your Laboratory’s Needs

• Choose from a variety of courses designed to enhance participants’ effectiveness in the lab.
• Enjoy enhanced opportunities for skill building and team building offered by in-person discussion with peers and facilitation by ASCP’s organizational and leadership experts.
• Give your team insight into their own leadership behavior and identify areas for improvement through self-assessments included with each course.
  Offer your team members up to 2.5 CME/CMLE/SAMs credits per course, as all courses are accredited through the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).
• Provide your team with the opportunity to apply courses offered via on-site facilitation towards completion of the Leadership Certificate program.
• Tailor courses to your needs and wants, focusing on how you and your team can apply the skills you have learned.

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Personal Coaching

Receive Customized Training

• Accelerate your learning by working one-on-one with one of ASCP’s organizational and leadership experts.
• Tackle a specific leadership challenge or strengthen a particular skill.
• Adapt your coaching experience to fit your schedule through in-person or telephone sessions.
• Gain access to the Leadership Certificate program with 10 on-demand courses that offer CME/CMLE credit and include self-assessments.