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2016 – 2017 Professional Development Course

Registration for the 2016- 2017 CMPT’s Professional Development Course is now open. For the 2016 -2017 course CMPT is able to extend the registration to non-CMPT participants. Visit the course’s Registration Page for more details There is still time for

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Welcome to CMPT’s new website

We have re-developed our website for better navigation and functionality. We hope you find it easier to use. If you don’t find what you are looking for please don’t hesitate to contact us, we would be happy to help you

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PD Course: Enteric Parasitology Module 2 released

The Enteric Parasitology Module 2 (Survey PA1604) of CMPT’s Professional Development course has been released. You can access it here There is still time until the end of September 2016 to compete al quizzes.

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Welcome Xiuli (Julie) Qi, to CMPT

Xiuli Qi graduated with a M.Sc. in Administration from HEC Montreal in 2007 and then joined the Canadian Red Cross in Ottawa as Procurement & Logistics Officer for the International Operations. She also has professional experience in the public sector,

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Pauline Tomlin joins CMPT’s Enteric Parasitology Committee

Welcome Pauline Tomlin to CMPT’ Enteric Parasitology Committee We would like to welcome Pauline Tomlin to CMPT’s Enteric Parasitology Committee. Pauline is a medical laboratory technologist with the Provincial Laboratory for Public Health- University of Alberta Hospital  

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PD course: Module 3 Clinical Bacteriology just released

Module 3 Clinical Bacteriology quiz is now available A new module for Clinical Bacteriology (Survey M154) has just been released. There is time until the end of September to complete all quizzes for all categories. Participants must complete all the

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Change in Identifier Nomenclature

The nomenclature of Enteric Parasitology and Mycology challenges has changed to allow better differentiation between the two programs. Starting in  April 2016, Enteric Parasitology challenges will have the letters PA before the challenge number e.g.: PA1604-1 Starting in September 2016, Mycology

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CMPT maintains accreditation to ISO/IEC 17043 and certification to ISO9001

A busy and challenging time at CMPT In April 2016 CMPT was audited by two accreditation organisms. We are proud to have successfully passed the audit for ISO 9001:2015 -Quality Management Systems- carried out by QMI SAI Global and thus,
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Professional Development course update

Great response from our participants! More than 120 participants have signed up so we are very excited about that. Recently released: · Bacteriology Module 2 · Mycology Module 2 Registration is still open: http://pd.cmpt.ca.
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Clostridium difficile program – Shorter results turnaround –

Clostridium difficile - NOTICE- Starting may 2016, the results for the C. difficile program will be reported separately from the Clinical Bacteriology program. The results will be posted online and result letters will be available to each laboratory within two
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