DIAG207-1015: Quality Management for the Veterinary Clinical Pathology Laboratory Part II
The lectures for this course will be presented in a predominantly text format.
Enrollment is closed.
Instructors:
Kathleen P. Freeman,
DVM, BS, MS, PhD, DipECVCP, MRCPath, MRCVS,
Certificate in Laboratory Quality Management (University of Wisconsin), IDEXX Labs, UK,
Wetherby, West Yorkshire, UK
Ernst Leidinger,
DVM, Dip.ECVCP, Specialist for Clinical Pathologist (national);
Lab director and clinical pathologist at In Vitro laboratory in Vienna, Austria
Stefanie Klenner, DVM, Dr.med.vet., Diplomate ECVCP, SCIL Animal Care Company, Viernheim, Germany
Professor Elspeth Milne, BVMS, PhD, DipECVCP, FRCPath, FRCVS, Head of Veterinary Pathology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Course Open: October 23, 2015-February 17, 2016
Real Time Sessions (RTS): Sundays, November 1, 15, 29, December 13, 27, 2015, January 10, 24 and February 7, 2016; 3:00-4:30pm ET (USA)
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Practice Sessions: In order to prepare you for a successful experience
in your CE course, we request you attend a Practice Session prior to the first
Real Time Session. Please arrive promptly at the start time; each Practice Session
is up to 1 hour in length.
For more information, please visit the
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Level and Prerequisites:
This
advanced course will be open to participants training for
or who have experience working in a clinical pathology laboratory.
This course is not open to veterinary students.
The majority of candidates will be those in training for a career in clinical pathology
or those who already working in the clinical pathology laboratory.
In some instances there may be a practitioner or veterinary nurse with an intense interest
in clinical pathology that may wish to take this course, but should be advised that
the course is intensive and will require a considerable input of time and effort when
coming from a background without prior experience in a clinical pathology laboratory
typical of a University or reference laboratory.
Desired experience should include:
- prior experience in a clinical pathology laboratory environment.
- prior experience in clinical pathology laboratory testing.
- interest in quality systems for the clinical pathology laboratory.
- interest in provision of leadership and quality management in the clinical pathology laboratory.
- desire to gain experience in application of quality management and planning principles
using data from your own laboratory, with guidance from experienced clinical pathologists
who are experts in quality leadership and quality management.
The Quality Management for the Veterinary Clinical Pathology Laboratory course
is presented in two parts; Part I is a prerequisite for Part II.
VIN CE Course: Open to veterinarians and veterinary technicians.
This course is approved by RACE for veterinarians and veterinary technicians.
The Veterinary Information Network (VIN) is RACE Provider #22.
Course Description:
The Quality Management for the Veterinary Clinical Pathology Laboratory
course is designed to provide an introduction to and practical application
of quality management in the veterinary clinical pathology laboratory.
In Part I, participants will be introduced to theories of management and
concepts vital to quality planning. Examples of ISO-based and GLP standards
are included. Laboratory design, Westgard Rules, QC Validation and Sigma
Metrics are covered.
In Part II, participants will learn about audits in the veterinary clinical
pathology laboratory and determination of reference intervals, as well as
Improvement Opportunities, external Quality Assurance performance and a
Quality Plan for the laboratory. There is an introduction to Method
Validation and Instrument Performance Verification.
There will be Real Time Sessions approximately every 2 weeks.
The majority of the work will be done by e-mail of drafts and revisions
to the instructors, with the final products of some sections shared with
the rest of the participants by posting on the course message boards.
The review and participant questions will also be shared on the course
message boards. In order to demonstrate satisfactory participation in
this course, participants are expected to attend all of the Real Time
Sessions, hand in completed homework assignments and to work with the
instructor(s) in revising assigned items until both the instructors
and participant are satisfied with the results, as well as pass the
examination with a score of at least 80%.
There is some flexibility in the length of time of the course to accommodate
holidays for the Instructors and participants. These should be arranged in
advance between the instructor and the participants assigned to him/her.
This course consists of eight (8) 90 minute Real Time Sessions, supplemental library materials,
interactive message board discussions, and a mandatory end-of-course test.
Successful completion (scoring 80% or better) on the end-of-course test is required
to earn a certificate of completion for the course.
To learn more about the requirements for earning a CE certificate, please refer to
Receiving Your CE Credit and Course Completion Certificate.
Upon completion of this course, the participant should be able to
- Apply quality standards for an audit in the Veterinary Clinical Pathology
Laboratory and show how to do this by writing an SOP for an audit, and
designing an Audit Form for a process or task and conducting an audit
for an item within his/her laboratory.
- Do health and safety risk assessments for the Veterinary Clinical Pathology
Laboratory and show how to do this by designing a Risk Assessment Form and
performing a Risk Assessment for an item within his/her laboratory.
- Evaluate performance of the laboratory in external Quality Assurance (QA)
and show how to do this by evaluating external QA for an instrument within
his/her laboratory choice and making recommendations based on the findings.
- Know about continuous quality improvement in the laboratory and show how to
promote this by developing an Improvement Opportunity Form.
- Understand the purpose of Method Validation and Instrument Verification
in the laboratory and understand terminology and studies needed
to undertake these tasks.
- Draft standard operating procedures for the various aspects of Method
Validation and Instrument Verification for an instrument within their
laboratory and complete a practical exercise comparing two methods.
- Apply concepts for quality planning in order to promote ongoing quality
improvement with the veterinary clinical pathology laboratory and show how
to apply concepts for quality planning by drafting a Quality Plan for
his/her laboratory.
- Share their thoughts, experiences, comments and work with others in the
course in order to contribute to better understanding of the topics and
appreciation of the approaches taken by others to similar or different
laboratory circumstances.
- Successfully pass an examination with multiple choice, short answer
and/or essay questions regarding the above topics by achieving
a score of > or = 80%.
Course Materials: Course materials will be available
in the course library prior to each Real Time Session.
Required Textbook: There is no required textbook for this course.
Recommended Textbook:
About the Instructors:
Dr. Kathleen Freeman is a 1981 graduate of Oklahoma State University,
College of Veterinary Medicine and received her MS and PhDs from OSU in 1984 and 1987,
respectively. She was on faculty at OSU and then at Cornell University before taking a
detour and teaching all sorts of Science courses and in the Educational Opportunity
Program at Ithaca College for several years.
During these years she was also doing cytology and laboratory consultations
for commercial laboratories.
She then moved into commercial laboratory medicine and worked as Director or Senior
Clinical Pathologist at several laboratories. She moved to the UK in 1997 to develop
a diagnostic laboratory service for the Animal Health Trust and was Head of Anatomic
and Clinical Pathology there. She subsequently moved to Scotland and works from home
for IDEXX Laboratories, Ltd, based in Wetherby, West Yorkshire.
She is past founding Chair of the ASVCP Quality Assurance and Laboratory Standards
Committee and the founding Chair of the ECVCP Laboratory Standards Committee.
She is currently a member of both committees.
She has special interests in QA, QC, customer service, cytology and general clinical pathology.
She obtained a Certificate in Laboratory Quality Management via e-learning from the
University of Wisconsin and had the opportunity to work with James Westgard
which she says was a great experience!
Ernst Leidinger graduated from the vet-school in Vienna, Austria
in 1986 and worked as assistant professor at the department for medical chemistry
for about 10 years. Since 1995 he is director of a private veterinary diagnostic
lab in Vienna were he established the lab's QM system resulting in an ISO 9001
accreditation about ten years ago. Being one of Dr. Freeman's Students in the VIN
QM course, he has been course instructor for several years now.
He is a counselor for the Executive Board of the ECVCP.
His special interest in the lab are clinical chemistry, LIMS (computer bases lab
management systems) and all aspects of quality control. If there's some time
left he enjoys SCUBA diving.
Stefanie Klenner graduated in 2004 from the University of
Veterinary Medicine, Hannover, Germany. Between 2004 and 2006 she wrote her
thesis about canine intestinal permeability tests at the same University,
successfully receiving her Dr. med. vet. After a rotational internship at the
Small Animal Clinic at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, Germany, Dr. Klenner
started a residency in veterinary clinical pathology at the Central Laboratory of
Justus-Liebig University. Currently, she is working as scientific product manager
laboratory diagnostic for SCIL Animal Care Company.
She is an experienced speaker in various themes of veterinary clinical pathology and
lectures often at national as well as international conferences. She is the current
Chair of the Lab Standards Committee of the ECVCP.
Since 2009 Dr. Klenner is one of the instructors of the VIN Quality Management Course
and provides her skills and knowledge also to other courses of VIN.
She is especially interested in general clinical pathology, quality
control as well as learning strategies.
Elspeth Milne graduated from the University of Edinburgh, UK, in 1979.
She initially worked in small animal internal medicine then equine medicine at Edinburgh
and as manager of a veterinary investigation centre in Scotland. In 2002, she moved back
to Edinburgh as Head of Veterinary Pathology. She is a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
and European recognised specialist in veterinary clinical pathology, is active in undergraduate
and postgraduate education in this specialty and has previously been an instructor on this course.
She is currently Secretary and Exam committee member for the ECVCP.
Course Outline:
Week 1 (Real Time Session November 1, 2015):
Audits in the Veterinary Laboratory
Instructor: K. Freeman
Content:
- Types of audits and reasons for audits in the veterinary laboratory
Week 2 (No Real Time Session):
Audits in the Veterinary Laboratory - continued
Content:
- Types of audits and reasons for audits in the veterinary laboratory
Week 3 (Real Time Session November 15, 2015):
Health and Safety Risk Assessment
Instructor: S. Klenner
Content:
- Introduction to health and safety risk assessment,
draft of a Risk Assessment form and conduct a risk assessment
in your laboratory.
Week 4 (No Real Time Session):
Reference Intervals
Content:
- Introduction to reference interval determination within the veterinary laboratory
- Determine the basis for reference intervals used in your laboratory
Week 5 (Real Time Session November 29, 2015):
Improvement Opportunities
Instructor: K. Freeman
Content:
- The role of improvement opportunities as the basis for ongoing
quality improvement in the veterinary laboratory.
- Draft an Improvement Opportunity Form and provide an example
of how it could be used in your laboratory.
Week 6 (No Real Time Session):
External QA Performance Evaluation
Content:
- Introduction to external quality assurance performance evaluations.
- Evaluate external QA performance for an instrument in
your laboratory and make recommendations based on your findings.
Week 7 (Real Time Session December 13, 2015):
Method Validation/Instrument Verification
Instructor: K. Freeman
Content:
- Introduction to Method Validation/Instrument Verification
- Purpose, Planning, Types of information, bases for decision-making
- Definitions and Terminology
- Familiarization Period
- Reportable Range determination
- Calibration Verification
- Detection Limit determination
Week 8 (No Real Time Session):
Method Validation /Instrument Verification - continued
Week 9 (Real Time Session December 27, 2015):
Method Validation /Instrument Verification - continued
Instructor: E. Leidinger
Content:
- Within run Precision study
- Interference study
- Recovery study
- Initial judgments about method
- Between Run Precision (Replication) Study
Week 10 (No Real Time Session):
Introduction to Method Validation/Instrument Verification - continued
Week 11 (Real Time Session January 10, 2016):
Audits in the Veterinary Laboratory
Instructor: K. Freeman
Content:
- Comparison of Methods Study
- Verification studies and how they differ from
Method/Instrument Validation
Week 12 (No Real Time Session):
Quality Plan
Content:
- Draft a quality plan for your laboratory covering the core
areas of environment, facilities, instrumentation, personnel
and quality working practices
Week 13 (Real Time Session January 24, 2016):
Revision, sharing and additional questions
Instructor: E. Leidinger
Week 14 (Real Time Session February 7, 2016):
Examination
Instructor: E. Leidinger
CE Credits: 12
Tuition: $700
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