Congratulations!

Welcome to this tight-knit community of leaders dedicated to helping you navigate, manage, and progress your career both professionally and personally. Through education, support, advocacy, and, most of all, the incredible connections you will make, the CAP is here to ensure that you grow as a leader, excel in your practice, and protect your future—and the future of our specialty.

Check out this short video about the CAP:

Get Started

1. Update Your Profile
   • Log in to update your profile. Once logged in, hover over your name and click update profile to maintain valuable connections with your peers and mentors
2. Make Your Life Simpler
   • Gather invaluable advice from other members on topics such as:
     • Transition to Work
     • Professional Development
     • Personal Development
     • Leadership
3. Connect With Your Local Delegation
   • Fill out the request form to be contacted by a state delegate—stay in the know and connected to all that is happening in the CAP, with pathology as a whole and in the House of Delegates (HOD)
4. Understand the Basics
   • Get Paid – watch this 20-minute tutorial 
   • Speak the Language – download the Business Terms for Pathologists Glossary 
   • Support Your Practice – familiarize yourself with our ever-growing practice tools
5. Showcase Your Commitment to Excellence
   1. Add FCAP to your credentials 
   2. Read the CAP’s Principles of Ethical and Professional Conduct
   3. Support our mission and vision.

Get Engaged

Make the most of your CAP membership—below are some easy recommendations on how to get engaged.

• Join a Committee
  • Demonstrate your expertise—check out the breadth of initiatives taken on by CAP scientific and member resource committees and apply now with a committee application
• Become a Laboratory Inspector
  • Provide valuable insights to laboratories and learn though collaboration with others—begin by taking Online Inspector Training and gain free CME
• Join the Conversation
  • Share your expertise and insights when new evidence-based guidelines proposals are forwarded via your email box. Learn how the CAP’s rigorous and transparent processes of evidence-based guidelines and consensus recommendations for clinical decision making are created.
• Get Published
  • Submit an article for review in Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine—download requirements
• Stand Up for Pathology
  • Hear from peers why this is more important than ever—watch our three-minute video: Advocacy: Your Voice Impacts Votes
• Join PathNET
  • Learn how you can take action by responding to action alerts—demonstrate the role of the laboratory in patient care by giving a laboratory tour and meeting with your local officials in your hometown

Get More

When we say there is a lot to get into at the CAP, we mean it. There is an array of educational/CME opportunities plus myriad chances to develop additional soft skills and business acumen. Want to give back? Then investigate the CAP Foundation. Want to protect your practice and patients? Learn the importance of being a part of your state pathology society.

Again, welcome aboard. We urge you to see all the benefits the CAP has for you as soon as you can.