title: Design and administration of a continuing education policy.
abstract: Personnel development by the laboratory administrator depends on well-established continuing education policies and procedures. This article assists in defining those policies and procedures, based on the authors' experience in developing a continuing education policy for a hospital laboratory. Ten categories of acceptable laboratory continuing education are defined, and a method for assigning credit to each category is presented. A decision-making scheme is outlined for distributing resources (such as time and money) for continuing education. The process for documenting and monitoring employee participation is described.
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004496:Education, Continuing; D007753:Laboratories / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000193:education; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D011050:Policy Making