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Dr. NAACLS
Advice for Accredited and Approved Programs
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Dear Dr. NAACLS:
Spring is a busy time with students gearing up for finals and meeting to discuss
the next changes for the next fall. In the midst of this, I receive a survey
request from NAACLS, and a link to a six page online survey!
This is a lot of work - what is the data used for?
Sincerely,
Exasperated Program Director
Dear Exasperated Program Director,
NAACLS is an accreditor of educational programs and is recognized by the Council
for Higher Education Accreditation. As such, NAACLS has a responsibility to
gather information about the state of clinical laboratory science education and
to keep appraised of the happenings in NAACLS accredited and approved programs.
NAACLS meets this responsibility in a variety of ways, including programmatic
reviews, the requirements of Standard 22, and maintaining a variety of "lines of
communication" between programs and NAACLS.
One of the more important of these "lines of communication" is the annual
survey. With the survey, NAACLS can ask the entire body of accredited and
approved programs questions at one time. This differs from telephone and email
inquiries from program directors to the NAACLS office, in which the programs are
asking the questions. It also differs from programmatic review, where only the
programs under review are responding. The importance of the survey is one the
reasons that NAACLS requires, under Standard 22, that programs respond to the
survey.
I had the chance to talk with the survey designers - and can now give you the
"Dr. NAACLS Exclusive Inside Scoop." The annual survey questions are divided
into three different categories, and each category serves a different purpose.
The first category is contact and classification information. These questions
are used to update the NAACLS database about new phone numbers, new presidents,
new emails and, especially in today's workplace, changes in a sponsoring
institution's name or administration due to a merger.
The second category contains the longitudinal questions regarding admissions,
attrition, graduates and placement rates. Long-time NAACLS program directors may
recall similar questions on the old AMA survey - and that is intentional. This
information is used to identify trends in the profession, and is presented to
NAACLS' sponsoring agencies as well as researchers reviewing the profession.
The final category is the "other" category. This is where the NAACLS Board of
Directors can place specific questions that give the information they need to
set appropriate policy.
NAACLS recognizes that program directors are busy people, and is diligent in
reviewing the survey to insure that nothing extraneous is included. In addition,
NAACLS' staff is always on hand to help when the questions are unclear.
The information from the Annual Survey travels a long way, and your completion
of the survey is the most important first step!
Sincerely,
Dr. NAACLS
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