Category Archive: News

The Winter Issue of our Newsletter “Connections” is available In this issue: Resistance to Quinolones Dr. Michael Noble visits the African Society for Laboratory Medicine HPTA – Biosecurity Plan CMPT Grading Guideline Check the Newsletter

As part of the February 2017 Clinical Microbiology survey, CMPT will send its first Video Challenge. CMPT has been using its Paper Challenge as a way to evaluate extra-analytical processes in the total laboratory testing. This year, CMPT introduces the…

Our Professional Development course keeps attracting more people. This year we have extended the invitation to microbiology residents; we have already some residents registered for the course. We are also very excited that our course was chosen as a continuing…

On October 4th, 2016 CMPT held its Annual General Meeting. CMPT’s AGM is an opportunity to connect more closely with our Committee members, accreditation bodies representatives, strategic partners, and also with our participants. The AGM is also an opportunity to…

Lester Wong graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Science degree major in Food Science and Technology in 2000.  He has worked as a technologist in the Food Safety Branch of the Alberta Agri-Food laboratories and in…

We would like to welcome Dr. Ghada Al-Rawahi as our newest member of the Clinical Bacteriology expert committee. Dr Al-Rawahi is a Medical Microbiologist with the BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver BC. We are excited to add the pediatric perspective…

CMPT’s Annual Report 2015-2016 has been released. For a full copy of the report (PDF) please go to https://cmpt.ca/publications-newsletter/annual-report/ Check our 2016-2016 Goals and objectives!

The Summer Issue of our Newsletter “Connections” is available In this issue: Resistance in the glycopeptide antimicrobial class, by Dr. Robert Rennie Mechanisms of bacterial resistance to amynoglycosides, by Ms. Lorraine Campbell HPTA – Biological safety officers. Go to Newsletter

Identifier Errors The use of incorrect identifiers to report results will not affect the grade of the different challenge components. However, a reporting error point will be given for each challenge/challenge component reported using the incorrect identifier. These points can…