- On Wed, 8/24/11, D'Attilio, Shelley wrote:
From: D'Attilio, Shelley
Subject: RE: [Histonet] Embedding process improvement and competency assessment
To: "Rene J Buesa" , histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Date: Wednesday, August 24, 2011, 5:14 PM
Rene',
I agree
I have to agree with René. I have worked under registered histologists and
MT's. And under certain circumstances it is EXTREMELY hard to make a
non-histologist to understand what our needs are. But at least it appears to
me, that you want to learn and are open to understand the "histology" way.
Rene',
I agree with many of the points you make about a non-histotech managing a
histology laboratory, especially since the decision could be seen to devalue
the special training and knowledge of a histotech. Every bit of knowledge I
have gained along the way has been hard-fought, to say the le
I do concur that assessing any task is certainly much more straightforward if
you are starting from your personal knowledge base and experience, but maybe
with the input of others?, could still be accomplished ( thinking positive,
through a team approach)-
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Some time ago I did a NSH teleconference on process improvement, and chose to
apply the methodology to the embedding task. I had a handout for measurement of
embedding competency and also training information( skills needed and
assessment ideas), with specific discussin on tissue orientation fo