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 September 29-October 2, 2010
Talking Stick Resort
Scottsdale, AZ
COME INTERACT WITH NATIONALLY
RECOGNIZED EXPERTS IN LABORATORY MEDICINE:
- Lucia M. Berte, MA, MT(ASCP), SBB, DLM; CQA(ASQ)CMQ/OE
- Verlin Janzen, MD, FAAFP Family Physician & Laboratory Director, Hutchinson
Clinic, PA
- Judy Yost, MA, MT(ASCP) Director, Division of Laboratory Services CMS
WE HAVE MANY HOT EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS, INCLUDING…
- Topics of interest to the physician office laboratory
- Special new sessions for COLA laboratories
- Sessions on the business of laboratory medicine
- Quality Management Systems sessions
- Continuing education to enhance your competency and maintain your state
license
- CME credits for physicians to qualify under CLIA as laboratory director
for moderate complexity
WE'VE GOT YOU COVERED!
We want to help you meet personal, professional, and organizational goals at a
reasonable cost. The Symposium is designed to provide education that’s critical
to operating a successful laboratory. You’ll participate in engaging,
interactive activities while enhancing your practical skills. There will also be
ample opportunity to network with your colleagues.
We offer a choice of many breakout sessions in small group settings with expert
faculty, so you can customize your learning in the laboratory topics that will
provide the most benefit to you and your lab. For the POL or novice quality practitioner,
you will learn methods to instill efficiency, productivity, and consistency in
your laboratory’s operations. For the experienced Quality Manager, the Symposium
offers tools and practices to reinforce your efforts as you implement QMS throughout
your organization to meet the challenges of the future. This symposium also includes
topics specifically for COLA labs regarding COLA criteria.
The exhibit hall offers you the opportunity to interact with manufacturer
representatives and see the newest and best in laboratory equipment, testing
instruments, laboratory supplies, and laboratory information systems.
You’ll walk away from this conference with a renewed sense of purpose, ready to
implement what you’ve learned!
Intended Audience and Scope of Practice
This educational activity has been designed to meet the needs of:
- Physicians operating an office laboratory
- Healthcare professionals working as medical laboratory staff in
diagnostic laboratories, including testing personnel, technical
consultants, supervisors, and laboratory directors
- Physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurses
- Medical office managers
Learning Objectives
The sessions at the Symposium are designed so that participants will be able to:
- Recognize and apply the responsibilities and duties of the laboratory
director
- Implement skills focused on complying with the CLIA regulations and
improved laboratory practices
- Develop internal processes addressing quality assessment and quality
management system practices
CME Accreditation Information:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with
the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing
Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the University of
Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and COLA. The University of
Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is accredited by the ACCME to
provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Wisconsin School and Public Health designates this educational activity for a maximum of 21.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This CME activity has been designed to change practice-based learning,
systems-based practice, and patient care; three of the six competencies
embraced by the American Board of Medical Specialties.
Course Director / Educational Reviewer
Cyril “Kim” Hetsko, MD, FACP
University of Wisconsin, Clinical Professor of Medicine
Chief Medical Officer, COLA
It is the policy of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and
Public Health that the faculty, authors, planners, and other persons who may influence content of this CME activity disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial interests* in order to allow CME staff to identify and resolve any potential conflicts of interest. Faculty must also disclose any planned discussions of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices during their presentation(s). Detailed faculty disclosure will be made available in the activity materials.
* The ACCME defines a commercial interest as any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests. |
COLA is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the
clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program. P.A.C.E.®
continuing education credits are accepted by all states with continuing
education requirements for laboratory personnel licensure. This program is approved for up to 21.75 PACE contact hours.
COLA is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the
clinical laboratory sciences by The Board of Clinical Laboratory Personnel,
Division of Medical Quality Assurance at the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration,
and the California Division of Laboratory Science, Department of Laboratory Field
Services.
Jointly sponsored by University of Wisconsin
School of Medicine & Public Health and COLA
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