Phlebotomy Staffing.

Context.—: Laboratory directors are tasked with staffing laboratories in a manner that provides adequate services and maintains economic sustainability.

Objective.

COVID-19 Pandemic Spurs Evolution of an Academic Pathology Department and Laboratory.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused much suffering through disease and death, disruption of daily life, and economic havoc. Global health infrastructure has been challenged, in some cases failing. In the United States, the inability of laboratories to provide adequate testing for the causative pathogen, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, has been the subject of negative press and national debate.

Workflow Mapping-A Q-Probes Study of Preanalytic Testing Processes: A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes Study of 35 Clinical Laboratories.

Context.—: Workflow mapping is a tool used to characterize operational processes throughout most industries and to identify non-value-added activities.

Objective.

Laboratory Staff Turnover: A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes Study of 23 Clinical Laboratories.

Context.—: Knowledge of laboratory staff turnover rates are important to laboratory medical directors and hospital administrators who are responsible for ensuring adequate staffing of their clinical laboratories. The current turnover rates for laboratory employees are unknown.

The Recent Pathology Residency Graduate Job Search Experience: A Synthesis of 5 Years of College of American Pathologists Job Market Surveys.

Context: - Pathology residents and fellows tailor their training and job search strategies to an actively evolving specialty in the setting of scientific and technical advances and simultaneous changes in health care economics.

Objective: - To assess the experience and outcome of the job search process of pathologists searching for their first non-fellowship position.

Design: - The College of American Pathologists (CAP) Graduate Medical Education Committee has during the past 5 years sent an annual job search survey each June to CAP junior members and fellows in practice 3 years or less who have actively searched for a non-fellowship position.

Delta Check Practices and Outcomes: A Q-Probes Study Involving 49 Health Care Facilities and 6541 Delta Check Alerts.

Context: - Delta checks serve as a patient-based quality control tool to detect testing problems.

Objective: - To evaluate delta check practices and outcomes.

Design: - Q-Probes participants provided information about delta check policies and procedures.

Professional Practice Evaluation for Pathologists: The Development, Life, and Death of the Evalumetrics Program.

Context: - In 2008, the Joint Commission (JC) implemented a standard mandating formal monitoring of physician professional performance as part of the process of granting and maintaining practice privileges.

Objective: - To create a pathology-specific management tool to aid pathologists in constructing a professional practice-monitoring program, thereby meeting the JC mandate.

Design: - A total of 105 College of American Pathologists (CAP)-defined metrics were created.

Assessment and Management of Professionalism Issues in Pathology Residency Training: Results From Surveys and a Workshop by the Graduate Medical Education Committee of the College of American Pathologists.

Professionalism issues are common in residency training and can be very difficult to recognize and manage. Almost one-third of the milestones for pathology recently instituted by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education encompass aspects of professionalism. Program directors are often unsure of how and when to remediate residents for unprofessional behavior.

Fifteen years' experience of a College of American Pathologists program for continuous monitoring and improvement.

Context: The Q-Tracks program, created in 1999, is a quality monitoring subscription service offered by the College of American Pathologists.

Objective: To establish benchmarks in quality metrics, monitor changes in performance over time, and identify practice characteristics associated with better performance.

Design: The Q-Tracks program provides ongoing study of multiple metrics offered in most laboratory disciplines.

Whole slide images and digital media in pathology education, testing, and practice: the Oklahoma experience.

Examination of glass slides is of paramount importance in pathology training. Until the introduction of digitized whole slide images that could be accessed through computer networks, the sharing of pathology slides was a major logistic issue in pathology education and practice. With the help of whole slide images, our department has developed several online pathology education websites.

Competency-based education for the molecular genetic pathology fellow: a report of the association for molecular pathology training and education committee.

The following report represents guidelines for competency-based fellowship training in Molecular Genetic Pathology (MGP) developed by the Association for Molecular Pathology Training and Education Committee and Directors of MGP Programs in the United States. The goals of the effort were to describe each of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education competencies as they apply to MGP fellowship training, provide a summary of goals and objectives, and recommend assessment tools. These guidelines are particularly pertinent to MGP training, which is a relatively new specialty that operates within a rapidly changing scientific and technological arena.

College of American Pathologists considerations for the delineation of pathology clinical privileges.

Context: The Joint Commission (JC) established new medical staff privileging requirements effective January 2008. The new requirements include the development of ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) and focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE) processes and incorporate the general competencies of patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism and systems-based practice jointly developed by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). The College of American Pathologists makes resources available to assist members and their facilities in implementing the new requirements and improving patient care.