Hi Sarah - NSH has teleconferences every month where you can earn contact hours. We also have recorded sessions from our Symposium/Convention online for purchase so you can listen to material, receive handout and earn contact hours. That may be your best option so you don't have to travel right now.
Visit NSH website: www.nsh.org under events and professional development tabs or Click here for Teleconferences http://s3.goeshow.com/nsh/NSHTC2012/ereg949997.cfm?pg=home Click here for Online Learning Center http://www.softconference.com/NSH/generic.asp?ID=7372 Please feel free to contact me if you have any other questions. Kind Regards, Brenda Royce Membership Manager National Society for Histotechnology 8850 Stanford Blvd, Suite 2900 Columbia, Maryland 21045 Ph# 443-535-4064 Fax #443-535-4055 Visit us at www.nsh.org Come see us in Vancouver this year for our Symposium/Convention. Visit www.histoconvention.org for details Looking for continuing education? Visit the NSH website. -----Original Message----- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of histonet-requ...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 1:01 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Histonet Digest, Vol 104, Issue 20 Send Histonet mailing list submissions to histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to histonet-requ...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu You can reach the person managing the list at histonet-ow...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Histonet digest..." Today's Topics: 1. RE: Buckling Artifact (Hobbs, Carl) 2. Re: Histotech Training (Lee & Peggy Wenk) 3. RE: Negative controls and CAP (Settembre, Dana) 4. Summer Savings from Avantik Biogroup (Trevor Mornan) 5. Conferences? (Sarah Dysart) 6. Split of cost per slide (Lakshmi Kammili) 7. Re: Conferences? (Lee & Peggy Wenk) 8. Re: Split of cost per slide (Rene J Buesa) 9. PMMA bone question (Debra Siena) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 18:30:00 +0100 From: "Hobbs, Carl" <carl.ho...@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: [Histonet] RE: Buckling Artifact To: "histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu" <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Message-ID: <11d9615b89c10747b1c985966a63d7ca38626a5...@kcl-mail04.kclad.ds.kcl.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Can you submit an image? I can imagine what this is but, no point until I see an image? What are you doing that is different, if this is a new problem? Curiously, Carl Carl Hobbs Histology Manager Wolfson CARD School of Biomedical Sciences Kings College London Guys Campus SE1 1UL Tel: 020 78486813 Fax: 020 78486816 020 78486813 ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:52:22 -0400 From: "Lee & Peggy Wenk" <lpw...@sbcglobal.net> Subject: Re: [Histonet] Histotech Training To: "joelle weaver" <joellewea...@hotmail.com>, <wilson6...@yahoo.com>, <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Message-ID: <9DB648563BD34B2EB6FFAF550FB2E9C6@HP2010> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Note: The exact wording under HT eligibility is: ". . . AND one year full time acceptable experience in a histopathology (clinical, veterinary, industry or research) laboratory in the U.S., Canada or an accredited laboratory* within the last ten years." Very important to note the "One year full time experience". There is another page that talks about full-time vs. part-time experience. http://ascp.org/Board-of-Certification/GetCertified/Step-2/Verify-your-experience.html "Full-time experience is defined as a minimum of thirty-five (35) hours per week. Individuals who have part-time experience may be permitted to utilize prorated part-time experience to meet the work experience requirements. For example, if you are employed 20 hours per week for one year, your experience would be computed as 20 divided by 35 multiplied by 52 weeks, or the equivalent of 29.7 weeks of full time employment." Therefore, to qualify to take the exam, your person would need to work a minimum of 35 hours/week for 52 weeks, to be equal to 1 year full time experience. Your person, who is working 1.5 hours/day = 7.5 hours/week (1.5 x 5) Therefore, his full time equivalent would be: (7.5 divided by 35) multiplied by 52 weeks = 11.1 weeks of full time work Therefore, your person will have to work 4.7 years, at 1.5 hours/day, to be equivalent to 1 year full time experience. Now, that being said, some of his hours as a lab assistant MIGHT, just MIGHT, be allowed to be counted as histotechnology experience, for example, if he changes the solutions on the tissue processor, or runs the automated H&E or coverslipper. Some of these MIGHT be considered histotech responsibilities. The problem is, ASCP won't say over the phone whether some of the experience will or will not count, and how much of it will (or will not) count. You can ask, but they usually say to apply and then a decision will be made. And if ASCP decides it doesn't count, and the person doesn't have enough hours for 1 year full time, they are denied being allowed to take the exam, and they do NOT get their money back ($200 right now for HT). So, I suggest having MORE THAN half of his hours being histotech job responsibilities only - embedding, sectioning, special stains, IHC stains, troubleshooting, making solutions, etc. And then LESS THAN half being the blurred areas where histotechs or lab assistants might do it, depending upon staffing (processors, coverslipper, etc.). So not all his lab assistant job responsibilities can be counted. That's still over 2.4 years of histotech responsibility (at 1.5 hours/day), PLUS the number of hours/weeks he has as lab assistant that MIGHT, just MIGHT qualify as histotech responsibilities. But don't quote me. This is really gray, shaky ground. It's a lot easier when the person is working 20 hours/week as a histotech, and it takes 2 years to qualify. Or 35-40 hours/week as a histotech and it takes 1 year to quality. Also, frankly, in my opinion, working 1.5 hours/day, or 7.5 hours/week for 1 year is NOT enough time for him to get the technical knowledge to be able to pass the exam. It's $200 to apply for the HT exam. Please give him enough time to learn all the material, so he doesn't have to take the exam again. And again. That's a lot of money to waste when not adequately prepared. Peggy A. Wenk, HTL(ASCP)SLS -----Original Message----- From: joelle weaver Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 9:04 AM To: wilson6...@yahoo.com ; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: RE: [Histonet] Histotech Training Take a look at the ASCP BOC eligibility criteria at http://www.ascp.org/Board-of-Certification/GetCertifiedin a nutshell it is pretty much this at this time: Candidates must have completed a NAACLS Histotechnician program in the last 5 years. Or, Candidates must have acquired a minimum of 90 quarter hours or 60 semester hours in an accredited university or college, to include 12 semester hours of chemistry and biology, or possess an Associate degree from an accredited university or college with a combination of 18 quarter chemistry and of biology, plus a 1 year experience in histopathology Candidates must also have acquired experience within the past 10 years in any of the following areas; Fixation, Processing, Microtomy and Staining.They define "FT" employment and sliding scale for PT work in the materials.What is on the exam is outlined completely on the BOC page and in this guideline/outline- http://www.ascp.org/PDF/ExaminationContentGuidelinesHT.aspx Joelle Weaver MAOM, HTL (ASCP) QIHC > Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:11:32 -0700 > From: wilson6...@yahoo.com > To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > Subject: [Histonet] Histotech Training > > Hi, > I have a question about the training requirement for the HT > Certification Test. My question is, will the ASCP allow a guy who works as > a lab assistant in the histology lab andintends to train as an histotech > for one and half hour a day for twelve months to sit for the test? > > Thanks, > Wilson > _______________________________________________ > Histonet mailing list > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:22:23 -0400 From: "Settembre, Dana" <sette...@umdnj.edu> Subject: RE: [Histonet] Negative controls and CAP To: Christopher Jacobs <chrisp...@yahoo.com>, "histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu" <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Cc: "cjac...@clinpath.com" <cjac...@clinpath.com> Message-ID: <b64b947688fb794a8c191d19f22927c8059cd37...@umdexmbx02.core.umdnj.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Chris, CAP actually has a specific checklist question on Negative Controls. The question is ANP.22570 and if I remember correctly it is quite extensive. Most of the CAP questions are about 7 to 10 lines. The Negative control question is more than a page long. Get your hands a copy of the most current checklist for anatomic pathology - That will include Immunohistochemistry. By the way, the rule is that a negative control must be included with each run and there is much, much more. ANP.22570 Good Luck, Dana Settembre Immunohistochemistry Lab University Hospital - UMDNJ Newark, NJ -----Original Message----- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Christopher Jacobs Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 9:31 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Cc: cjac...@clinpath.com Subject: [Histonet] Negative controls and CAP Histonetters, I have been made the IHC lead in a fairly large laboratory that is seeking to become CAP accredited. I am definitely a newbie when it comes to CAP. A question was brought up today about how we do our negative controls. Specifically, should we run another negative control with any IHCs that need to be repeated or if we should run another negative control if at a later date a pathologist orders additional IHCs on a case. With our current protocol, we run one negative control per detection kit used, per case. Consequently, most cases end up with just one negative control slide. We do NOT run another negative control if we have to repeat one of a group of immunos or if a pathologist orders additional stains at a later point. I am wondering if this is good practice, and acceptable with CAP. I would love to find some literature that could help me make a case either way on this. Actually, any literature or pointers regarding IHCs and becoming CAP accredited will probably help save what little hair I have left. Thank you, Chris Jacobs, HT(ASCP)QIHC _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: 16 Jul 2012 08:39:18 -0600 From: "Trevor Mornan" <trevor.mor...@avantik-us.com> Subject: [Histonet] Summer Savings from Avantik Biogroup To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Message-ID: <mailman.0.1342458001.22642.histo...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sent By: Avantik Biogroup 32 Commerce Street P.O. Box 1299 Springfield NJ 07081 United States To view as a web page press on or copy this link into your browsers address bar https://u01.spsend.com/speasapage.aspx?X=5P143NSOI4O1O9G400VDWO If you prefer not to receive future e-mails of this type, please copy to your browser or press on this link "http://u01.spsend.com/SpeSupIt.aspx?X=5P143NSOI4O1O9G400VDWO&Addr=histonet~~2lists.utsouthwestern.edu" to unsubscribe. ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:13:19 +0000 From: Sarah Dysart <sdys...@mirnarx.com> Subject: [Histonet] Conferences? To: histonet <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Message-ID: <8a70a9b2ecdd084dacfe6c59fcf86d501077d...@bl2prd0710mb363.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Does anyone know of any conferences or conventions going on in the histology world in the next 8 weeks?? I am 8 months pregnant and was just told that I need to go to a conference this year...unfortunately I cannot fly. The conference would have to be somewhere drive-able from Austin, Texas (preferably no more than 10 hours or so...we Texas people are used to long drives to get places...). That would open up LA, OK, TX, MO, etc. Thanks! Sarah Goebel-Dysart, BA, HT(ASCP), QIHC (ASCP) Histotechnologist Mirna Therapeutics 2150 Woodward Street Suite 100 Austin, Texas 78744 (512)901-0900 ext. 6912 ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:13:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Lakshmi Kammili <l.kamm...@yahoo.com> Subject: [Histonet] Split of cost per slide To: "histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu" <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Message-ID: <1342451613.13988.yahoomail...@web113719.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi, I am working for a Pathology core lab in George Washington University. We are looking for the split of cost per slide. How much it costs in materials (gloves, reagents, plastic wear) and time (technical time and hourly use of machines) to process a tissue sample from formalin to a stained slide for light microscopy or EM.? If any one of you have any idea about this, Since we were asked to submit this way for NIH funding to the lab, that would be very kind of you if you can share this information with us. Thank you so much, Lakshmi Kammili, Sr. Research Associate, Pathology Core lab, GWU school of medicine, Washington?DC. ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:26:50 -0400 From: "Lee & Peggy Wenk" <lpw...@sbcglobal.net> Subject: Re: [Histonet] Conferences? To: "Sarah Dysart" <sdys...@mirnarx.com>, "histonet" <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Message-ID: <90C4FFF325284FCF8B1D38DDC6F3A56F@HP2010> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Most of the state symposiums are in the spring, since the NSH symposium is in the fall. I just checked the NSH meetings calendar, and I don't see any state meetings for the next several months. Any chance you can go to the NSH Symposium in Vancouver, Canada (which is Region IX). Sept. 29-Oct. 3? Don't know where in the 8th month PG you are. http://www.histoconvention.org/ How about a series of NSH Teleconferences? If you can't listen to it the day it's given, that's OK. Every lab that pays for a teleconference gets a CD about 4-6 weeks later, with the PowerPoint and speaker's voice, and can listen to it up to 2 years later and still get CE. Plus, everyone else in your lab can listen and get CE. Not as much fun as going away to a meeting, but if you have money - and being pregnant limits your ability to attend a meeting - this might be the way to go. They are $125 each. http://www.nsh.org/content/nsh-teleconference-series Peggy A. Wenk, HTL(ASCP)SLS (Disclosure - I'm the NSH Teleconference Coordinator, but I don't get paid for this volunteer position.) -----Original Message----- From: Sarah Dysart Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 11:13 AM To: histonet Subject: [Histonet] Conferences? Does anyone know of any conferences or conventions going on in the histology world in the next 8 weeks?? I am 8 months pregnant and was just told that I need to go to a conference this year...unfortunately I cannot fly. The conference would have to be somewhere drive-able from Austin, Texas (preferably no more than 10 hours or so...we Texas people are used to long drives to get places...). That would open up LA, OK, TX, MO, etc. Thanks! Sarah Goebel-Dysart, BA, HT(ASCP), QIHC (ASCP) Histotechnologist Mirna Therapeutics 2150 Woodward Street Suite 100 Austin, Texas 78744 (512)901-0900 ext. 6912 _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:01:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Rene J Buesa <rjbu...@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [Histonet] Split of cost per slide To: Lakshmi Kammili <l.kamm...@yahoo.com>, "histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu" <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Message-ID: <1342454495.56188.yahoomail...@web121401.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Under separate cover I am sending you something on this subject. Ren? J. ________________________________ From: Lakshmi Kammili <l.kamm...@yahoo.com> To: "histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu" <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 11:13 AM Subject: [Histonet] Split of cost per slide Hi, I am working for a Pathology core lab in George Washington University. We are looking for the split of cost per slide. How much it costs in materials (gloves, reagents, plastic wear) and time (technical time and hourly use of machines) to process a tissue sample from formalin to a stained slide for light microscopy or EM.? If any one of you have any idea about this, Since we were asked to submit this way for NIH funding to the lab, that would be very kind of you if you can share this information with us. Thank you so much, Lakshmi Kammili, Sr. Research Associate, Pathology Core lab, GWU school of medicine, Washington?DC. _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:47:32 -0500 From: Debra Siena <dsi...@statlab.com> Subject: [Histonet] PMMA bone question To: "histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu" <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Message-ID: <B7F62D8163C233458A8CEC6920AEE00B3292793A37@statsbs> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi All, I need to ask if a gram stain can be performed on a PMMA embedded bone sections? If so are there modifications to a routine gram that must be done for the stain to work? Thank you all for any information that can be provided and if the exact procedure is needed, I can provide that as well. Best wishes Debbie Siena, HT(ASCP)QIHC StatLab Medical Products Technical Support Manager 407 Interchange Street | McKinney, TX 75071 t:?800.442.3573 ext. 229 | f: 972.436.1369 dsi...@statlab.com | www.statlab.com ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet End of Histonet Digest, Vol 104, Issue 20 ***************************************** _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet