Flexible Learning: Access to Expert Insights

Excellence in online education has come to pathology and laboratory medicine. ASCP brings leading experts directly to your computer to help you learn and earn education credits at your convenience.

ASCP currently offers four courses. Topics and presenters include:

• Lymphoid Disorders in Blood and Bone Marrow in Children and Adults
  by Kathy Foucar, MD, FASCP
• Fine Needle Aspiration Cytopathology of Lymph Nodes
  with Paul Wakely, Jr., MD, FASCP
• Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) Guidelines for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
  by Gerri Hall, PhD, SM(ASCP) and Richard VanEnk, PhD
• New Aspects of Cardiac Risk Factors
  by Martin Kroll, MD, FASCP

Two courses under development include Red Blood Cell Morphology of Anemias by Robert Pierre, MD, FASCP; and Dermatopathology of Inflammatory Skin Disease with Steve Billings, MD, FASCP. A series of courses on chemical emergency response preparedness for clinical laboratory professionals is also in the works.

The eCourses provide 1 or 2 continuing medical education (CME) or continuing medical laboratory education (CMLE) credits.

Each course includes an online, multimedia presentation with audio, animations, images, text, and, and review questions with feedback. Interactive course content is presented in short learning segments, so students can proceed as time permits. Students also have an opportunity to interact with fellow students to enhance their learning experience.

Prices start as low as $29. Note that the course on CLSI guidelines for microbiologists, supported by a cooperative agreement awarded to ASCP by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is only $15. The chemical emergency response preparedness series will also be underwritten by the ASCP/CDC agreement.

Visit the ASCP eLearning Center at www.ascp.org/education/eLearning/ regularly to see which eCourses are available for you.