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LABCON Presentation Statutory Registration 2013

Posted 1 May, 2013 - 08:57 by Office
CORU

"What does it mean for you now and in the Future?"

Presentation by Marie Culliton, Council Member of CORU

If you would like Marie to present this at one of your journal clubs, please contact the office.

This presentation may not be reproduced, copied or presented without the prior permission of the Author Copyright © 2013 All Rights Reserved

Journal Club Editors

Posted 11 April, 2013 - 11:00 by Office
Journal Club Editors

We now have 42 journal club editors in various hospitals around the country.

These volunteers have taken on the responsibility of adding any internal meeting to the CPD activities for their department, as a result of this initiative participants can build up their points quite quickly.

Types of Journal Clubs

Reading Groups
Inhouse lecture
Inhouse seminar
Case Study Meeting
Journal Clubs

Attendees: 2 CPD points and is password protected
Organisor: 5 CPD points
Speakers: 5 CPD points

AMLS and IEQAS Update and Position Paper

Posted 3 April, 2013 - 10:19 by Office

Academy of Medical Laboratory Science and Irish External Quality Assurance Scheme

Update and Position Paper on Pathology Harmony in Haematology

Please see attached documentation.

Learning Hub St James Hospital

Posted 20 March, 2013 - 14:28 by Office

Attached information on two courses which are also available on HSEland.ie. Registratiopn is necessary, however, you do not need to be employed by HSE to access this course.

Suitable for Medical Scientists with an interest in Immunology, and can also be used as a refresher course.

National Blood Transfusion Committee

Posted 28 February, 2013 - 10:24 by Office

The new National Blood Transfusion Committee is a government organisation that ensures blood transfusion practice throughout Ireland reflects best international practice in terms of patient care and value for money. In order to promote the National Blood Transfusion Committee website, the committee have set up a Facebook page to maximise communication throughout the Blood Transfusion community with direct links to Transfusion related issues. If you work with Blood Transfusion in any aspect then please like this page.

Irish Antimicrobial Susceptibility testing Committee

Posted 22 February, 2013 - 17:56 by emccullagh

Thanks to Dr. Michael Mulhern, Microbiologist, Letterkenny General Hospital and Stephen Murchan (HPSC) who have created the website on the HPSC site as an aide to laboratories transitioning to EUCAST. The following is the introduction from the page

Pathways to Membership

Posted 14 February, 2013 - 13:53 by Office

As per attached

Show your Literary/Lyrical Side....

Posted 7 February, 2013 - 14:34 by Office

You may have a flair for writing? Alternatively, you may wish to encourage a colleague to submit material for Converse, be it of Scientific Persuasion, Meeting/Seminar Report, Case Study, Features, Short Story, Human Interest Piece.

Simply email us with your narrative, every 700 words should be accompanied by an image/photo and leave the rest of the work to the Academy’s Editor, Tom Moloney

Email to mail@amls.ie

Attached Guidelines for Submitting Material for Converse.

Contribute to AMLS History

Posted 8 June, 2012 - 12:09 by Office

To mark its 40th anniversary in 2014, the AMLS has commissioned a history. This will join the recent MLSA and IBMS history publications on the bookshelves. Noel White and Anne MacLellan have agreed to take on this task and considerable work has already been undertaken, particularly by Noel.

Noel is a former Laboratory Manager, St James's Hospital and President of the AMLS.

Battling ESBL/CRE Resistance Movements presentations 02/12/12

Posted 20 December, 2011 - 17:05 by emccullagh