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Category Archive: News
Expert Committee changes
CMPT would like to welcome Tanis Dingle to the Mycology committee and Katrina Hurley and Jessica Forbes to the Clinical Microbiology committee. Tanis Dingle Dr. Dingle is a Clinical Microbiologist with Alberta Precision Laboratories – Public Health Lab (ProvLab)…
M204 Final Results
The final results for M204 are posted: https://cmpt.ca/category/critique/clinical-bacteriology-results/
CMPT in the News
“When Canada’s British Columbia Center for Disease Control (BCCDC) saw the increasing demand for of COVID-19 tests and responsibilities headed its way, it reached out to a well-regarded proficiency testing program for help. The public health agency turned to the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Clinical Microbiology…
CMPT successfully completes its ISO9001 annual audit
CMPT went through its annual ISO9001:2015 certification audit on March 22, 2021. The audit found no Nonconformities and one opportunity for improvement (OFI) – to incorporate a formal section within our annual Management Review on an annual overview of CMPT experience with…
New PT program—EQA for COVID-19 Testing
This program provides External Quality Assessment for those facilities performing testing on nasopharyngeal swabs for SARS CoV-2 (COVID-19) to demonstrate their methods produce accurate and timely results on patient samples. Our samples have shown to be suitable to use with…
COVID-19 Proficiency Testing Program
CMPT is launching a new Proficiency Testing for Covid-19.
This program starts March 15, 2021 with 6 shipments a year (one shipment every 2 months).
Welcome Katrina Hurley to the Clinical Bacteriology Committee
CMPT welcomes Katrina to the expert committee and look forward to working with her and benefit from her expertise as a laboratory technologist. Katrina currently works at the Battlefords Union Hospital.