The CAP, the leading proponent for clinical laboratory excellence, offers a curriculum designed to prepare licensed physicians and laboratory professionals to satisfy the CLIA continuing education requirement for Laboratory Directors. This program offers 21 CME/CEU credits focused on the laboratory director responsibilities appropriate for individuals directing both moderate and high complexity testing laboratories.
Online Courses Included in this Program:
Critical Communication Practices for Laboratory Leadership
Learn strategies and techniques to promote constructive, uplifting conversations with your team or your clinical colleagues.
Developing Successful Teams
Learn principles of effective team leadership and best practices for managing a team.
Managing Risk to Build a Culture of Quality
Learn how to identify risks, report and manage incidents, and create a safer laboratory environment.
Managing Laboratory Operations
Gain insight into staffing qualified personnel, coordinating teams, assessing test system logistics, and more.
Successful Laboratory Leadership: Taking Action and Getting Results
Gain an understanding of how to broaden your sphere of influence for the benefit of patient care and laboratory needs.
Good Laboratory Decisions for Better Patient Care
Explore several aspects of laboratory services, including reporting, choosing a reference lab, analyzing test utilization, and validating new tests.
Achieving Regulatory and Accreditation Compliance
Learn how to delegate tasks, perform proficiency testing, provide clinical consultation, and more to address CLIA and CAP LAP requirements.
Driving Excellence: Tools and Strategies for Managing Quality
Learn how to build a quality management program around the 12 Quality System Essentials.
Regulatory and Compliance Oversight
Gain a greater understanding of federal and state regulatory issues and how to maintain a compliance program.
*Note: completing this program does not necessarily satisfy all accreditation organization credential requirements for laboratory directors. Contact your laboratory's accreditation organization for more information.