Optimizing schools of cytology: Discussions from the 2022 ASC/IAC Cytology Education Symposium, North American Strategies, and European Symbiosis.

This report highlights information and outcomes from the November 2022 ASC/IAC joint Cytology Education Symposium, an annual conference organized by the Cytology Programs Review Committee. The manuscript provides information on shared educational opportunities and practices for cytology students and other learners in anatomic pathology, discusses recruitment strategies for schools of cytology, conveys teaching resources, introduces perspectives on virtual microscopy and online learning, and transmits information about wellness of students in schools of cytology.

Culturally and linguistically diverse healthcare students' experiences of the clinical learning environment and mentoring: A qualitative study.

Development of educators' and students' global competence in higher education is increasingly important due to internationalization. Internationalization significantly influences healthcare education through an increase in the mobility of students. When conducting clinical practice in healthcare education, culturally and linguistically diverse healthcare students face the challenges of having limited learning opportunities and social isolation.

Practicing Histotechnologists Identify the Core Competencies Needed by Newly Graduated Biomedical Laboratory Scientists in Histotechnology and Histology.

The universities of applied sciences in Finland offer 3.5-year courses for histotechnologists and they graduate as biomedical laboratory scientist with 12 credits in histology and histotechnology. The aim of this study was to survey practicing histotechnologists about the core competencies needed by newly graduated biomedical scientists in histology and histotechnology.

Cytotechnologists' education and work in Finland.

Objective: The aim of this study was to survey the work that cytotechnologists carry out in Finland.

Methods: An electronic questionnaire was planned with the Board of the Finnish Association of Cytotechnologists and an email containing the link was sent to all 107 of its members in January 2018. It included 17 questions on their age and work experience, education and work.

Training of nurses in point-of-care testing: a systematic review of the literature.

Aims And Objectives: To review and describe the training of nurses in point-of care testing.

Background: Point-of-care tests are usually carried out by nurses. They are used in many healthcare units.

An interactive two-step training and management model of point-of-care glucose testing in northern Finland.

Objectives: To assess an interactive 2-step training and management model for nurses in glucose point-of-care testing (POCT).

Study Design: The training of the nursing staff by the point-of-care coordinator of the laboratory started with interactive sessions with contact persons who subsequently trained their nursing colleagues at the Oulu University Hospital in northern Finland. The 2-step training model was applied in blood glucose testing as a pilot study.

Health science students' experiences of group supervision of the bachelor's thesis.

This study aimed to describe health science university students' experiences of group supervision of the bachelor's thesis. Sixty-one students responded to questions on an open data collection form, and the data were analyzed by using qualitative inductive content analysis. According to the students, group supervision is supportive in terms of joint learning as well as commitment-enhancing and participative learning, but it also can be useless from the viewpoint of an individual student's own thesis.

Health science students' conceptions of group supervision.

Aim: The aim of this study was to describe health science university students' conceptions of group supervision during work on bachelor's thesis.

Method: This study is a qualitative research. Data were collected with an open data collection form from health science students (N=77).