In December, the African Society for Laboratory Medicine Conference was held in Cape Town, South Africa. For this, the sixth ASLM conference, the overarching theme was “Shaping laboratory systems and diagnostics services for the 21st Century: embracing the change.” CMPT…
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Ensuring Diagnostic Testing Accuracy: COVID-19 and Point of Care Testing
It’s tempting to think of EQA providers as simply another step on the path to accreditation: a mandatory stop on the road to the real work of providing quality testing for patients, clinicians, governments, and customers. However, as guardians of…
Posted in Clinical Microbiology
Happy Holidays from CMPT!
Another year of proficiency testing, courses, and quality improvement in the books! Thank you to everyone who has worked with us this year, whether you subscribed to our PT programs, took our courses, served on our committees, or read our…
Posted in News
Name Change: To Change or Not to Change
A recent mycology Proficiency Testing survey targeted the yeast Candida or now called Clavispora lusitaniae. Approximately 30% of the participants reported the yeast with its current name: Clavispora +/- (Candida) lusitaniae while the other 70% or laboratories reported it as…
Posted in Clinical Microbiology
Notes from EQALM 2023
EQALM’s Annual Symposium took place in Lyon, France this year, and CMPT Chair Dr. Lucy Perrone was in attendance. During the two-day conference, Dr. Perrone presented CMPT research and took part in the working group on microbiology, as did former…
Posted in News
Another Year of Our Professional Development Course
Another successful year in our Professional Development course. Each year, many laboratory technologists join our PD course to learn and expand their microbiology knowledge. The course offers the participants the chance to review microbiology challenges and learn practical issues on…
Posted in Continuing Education
Welcome New Technical Committee Members
CMPT welcomes three new Technical Committee members. Anu Rebbapragada D(ABMM) FCCM – CMPT Clinical bacteriology and Enteric parasitology technical committees Anu is currently the Vice President of Diagnostic Services and the laboratory director at FH Health where she oversights ongoing…
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Parasitology of the 21st Century: The Path to the Future
Kinga Kowalewska-Grochowska University of Alberta, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, APL Provincial Laboratory for Public Health, Edmonton AB Romina C Reyes University of British Columbia, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Vancouver, BC LifeLabs, Burnaby, BC Pauline Tomlin University…
Posted in Article, Clinical Microbiology
Upcoming Water Quality Summit – October 27, 2023
The Canadian Association on Water Quality (CAWQ) is organizing the 37th Eastern Canadian Symposium on Water Quality Research later this month (October 27, 2023). The event will take place at Université de Sherbrooke. The main purpose of this symposium is…
Posted in Article, Environmental Microbiology
Seeking Volunteers for PT Technical Committees: Clinical Bacteriology, Enteric Parasitology, and Water Microbiology
CMPT is seeking volunteers to sit on its Proficiency Testing Technical Committees for the following disciplines: Clinical Bacteriology, Enteric Parasitology, Water Microbiology. All members in all committees are actively involved in programmatic review and critique development. They play an essential…
Posted in Article, Clinical Microbiology
