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(Clinical Chemistry. 1997;43:167-173.)
© 1997 American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Inc.

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Report of the Third Conference on Education in Clinical Chemistry

Alan H. B. Wu1,a and Edward W. Bermes, Jr.2

1 Clinical Chemistry Laboratory, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT 06102, and President, Commission on Accreditation in Clinical Chemistry.

2 Department of Pathology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL 60153, and Past President, Commission on Accreditation in Clinical Chemistry.
a Author for correspondence. Fax 860-545-5206.


   Introduction
 
The Third Conference on Education in Clinical Chemistry was organized by the Board of Directors of the Commission on Accreditation in Clinical Chemistry (COMACC) and was held at the Sheraton Gateway Suites, O'Hare Airport in Chicago, IL, on September 29–October 1, 1995.1 The two previous conferences had been held in Columbus, OH, in 1973 (1) and Chicago, IL, in 1975 (2); the 1975 conference had 75 attendees representing 50 institutions.

The Third Conference was cosponsored by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC), the American Board of Clinical Chemistry (ABCC), and the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry. Directors of postdoctoral training programs from each COMACC-accredited program were invited to attend, as were Jay McDonald, University of Alabama at Birmingham, who provided the keynote address, and guest speakers representing clinical chemistry opportunities within industry. A total of 30 program directors and guest speakers were present, representing all but 2 of the 19 postdoctoral programs accredited by COMACC at the time. A current listing of COMACC-approved graduate and postdoctoral programs in clinical chemistry is included in Table 1 .


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  		Table 1. COMACC-accredited programs in clinical chemistry.

This conference was organized in response to new educational needs brought about by dramatic changes in the delivery of laboratory medicine. Many groups have documented this reform. In 1995, the AACC Board of Directors formed a Task Force to examine the current practice environment, estimate future practices, list professional qualifications necessary to meet anticipated practices, and recommend programs to enable clinical chemists to gain the required competencies (3). As listed by the Task Force, the skills needed today are in the areas of clinical (for test logic, appropriateness, and consultation), scientific and technical (in automation, informatics, and robotics), and management (for multidisciplinary team-building and leadership). A new task force (Delta) . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Keynote Address: Need for Interdisciplinary Training (Jay McDonald, Speaker)
 

   Presentations
 
opportunities in reference laboratories and industry (chair: alan h.b. wu, hartford hospital, hartford, ct)
Job requirements
Industry externships
training in nontraditional testing areas (chair: roland valdes, jr., university of louisville, ky)
Point-of-care testing
Core laboratory concept
Molecular diagnostics
research training (chair: mitchell g. scott, washington university, st. louis, mo)
training in medical informatics and laboratory management
Informatics and automation
Laboratory management training

   Discussion
 

   Footnotes
 

   References
 





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