CAP@YourService – Residents Issue – Winter 2010

Visit the CAP Booth at the USCAP annual meeting at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC. Exhibits open March 22 through March 24. Enter a post-show drawing at the CAP Booth to win a Garmin GPS navigator!

When you’re in the exhibit hall during USCAP, stop by the CAP BOOTH to learn more about the CAP’s most comprehensive array of programs and services for pathologists:

Anatomic Pathology
Look to the CAP to provide anatomic pathology programs to help you assess and improve your AP interpretations. Surveys and educational programs are available in surgical pathology, HER2 and predictive markers, cytopathology, neuropathology, and autopsy and forensic pathology.

See firsthand and experience any of our 13 CME programs at the CAP Booth.

CAP Press
Check out the CAP’s outstanding books on current topics in clinical pathology, quality management, anatomic pathology, and practice management. Purchase a book at the CAP Booth and take it with you.

Transforming Pathologists
The CAP’s new Transformation of the Specialty initiatives, including the CAP’s Certificate Programs and self-assessment modules (SAMs). We will also highlight the CAP Pathology and Laboratory Quality Center, a new forum for development of standards and best practices in areas related to the practice of pathology.

Diagnostic Work Station
The CAP Diagnostic Work Station brings together leading-edge technology in a vendor-neutral environment to support the pathologist’s pivotal role on the patient care team as chief diagnostician and clinical care advisor.

The SNOMED Experts
Meet with CAP staff to learn how the SNOMED Terminology Solutions (STS) division of the CAP is leading organization in pursuing semantic interoperability for electronic health records by offering customized best-practice terminology implementation and education services.

CAP electronic Cancer Checklists (CAP eCC)
Find out more about the CAP eCC and how it provides an interoperable means for pathologists to share cancer report information to assist clinicians in providing personalized cancer care and to provide data to cancer registries for population-based cancer statistics and outcomes.

New CAP Accreditation Certification Mark
This new mark recognizes a laboratory for achieving CAP accreditation, the gold standard of laboratory accreditation.