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]
QAPonline is based upon the activity of individual staff members. Their performance is a measure of competency against clinic, national, international and peer participants. Their performance is transportable between clinics and forms part of their CV.
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
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 several avenues for ongoing education and professional development.
IVF Daily (formally FertAid News) is a collection of hyperlinks to recent news articles and journal articles on a ranges of topic associated with Assisted Reproductive Technology and Reproductive Biology. When you subscribe to IVFDaily NEWS, a selection is emailed weekly and selected links are stored for your future reference and as evidence of professional development.
IVFDAILY NEWS is keyword linked, searchable and rated.
Feel free to contribute links to news or journal articles.
FertAid has developed a BenchMark Folder that enables clinic to monthly log Key Performance Indicators [KPI] online in a totally anonymous manner. You can use IVF Benchmark as a monthly Quality tool to create warning and actions limits for each KPI and plot each KPI.
However, for a nominal subscription, you may compare your KPI against either other subscribers or against uniquely selected, anonymous reference groups.
Linked to both FertAid News, EQA schemes and education activities, the forum is similar to other Internet forums. The FertAid Form currently remains under development but when completed will provide a location where advice and requests can be posted for other IVF professionals respond.
On the 22/3/2012, Fertaid Recorded over 1,000,000 replies to its proficiency schemes. Amazing. Congratulations to the Original Internet based Proficiency and EQA program in the Reproductive Sciences!!
