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Quality and Education Tools for Reproductive Scientists

"As far as practicable, all staff involved in testing patient's samples must participate in the QAP with records kept." [NATA Supplementary requirements for accreditation]

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QAPonline
Concepts
Individual Participation
QAPonline is based upon the activity of individual staff members. Their performance is a measure of competency.
Internal Quality Control
Combing the activity of each staff member in your QAP group builds an Internal Quality Control activity
External Quality Assurance
Combing QAP groups builds an External Quality Assurance measure to compare individual and laboratories performance.
Comparisons made against
  • All professional participants
  • Selected Peer participants
  • Grandfather participants (>10 yrs)
  • All participants in your country
Management online
All QAP groups managed by senior laboratory staff dynamically online.
Access continuous and dynamic.
Access at varying levels allow use as both QA activity and training and assessment
Keys: Versatility, flexibility, dynamic
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QA Schemes
Andrology
Concentration
Motility
Morphology (WHO; Strict)
Antisperm Antibodies
Embryology
Pronuclear
Fragmentation
Early Cleavage
Late Cleavage
Ultrasound
Follicle Size
Endometrial thickness
Education
Journal Club (Human Reproduction)
Case Scenario and Risk Assessment
Terminology
Crossword
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IVFLabOnline
List of companies involved in IVF.
 
Draft TQM graphic and analytical tools and BENCHMARK analysis
FertAid News and Education
FertAid continues to develop education schemes to provide both training and education to practicing scientists.
Features
FertAid Mail publishes links to news items on ART and recent publications that may be of interest to scientists. When you subscribe to FertAid News, each link that you review is tagged to your account for future access and a proof of an aspect of your professional development. Access is independent to QAPonline
Recently introduced Survey modules.
Education Schemes
FertAid appreciates that many ART scientists are often trained in situ and with busy workloads, find it difficult to maintain an active professional development program. FertAid provide two current schemes.
A monthly digest of topical issues for review and Q&A- this subscribable option has been desigedn for Nurse Coordinators, scientists and counsellors (and maybe clinicians as well).
This free scheme provides a brief journal club for articles that are freely available on the Internet. Comes with learning Objectives and Q&A
A monthly crossword designed to test and expand your vocabulary. Each crosswords contain 10 words. All words are drawn from the glossary and the game to complete the crossword with the minimum number of attempts.Use this as a quality activity.
In this scheme, scenarios that may occur in a laboratory are posed and participants are asked to offer solutions to the problem. A great learning curve.
Limited Atlas of human embryology
Several free sperm morphology assessment schemes. These are free to use.
Uses www.ReferenceOrganiser.com compilation of references on selected topics. Select link to open articles.
Selected links to free access review articles that form the CLASSROOM collection of article for education and referral.
A growing list of terms often in ART laboratories. All crossword items are drawn from the glossary.
 
Virtual Laboratory
List of companies involved in IVF.
   
 
 
         
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