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Site visitors needed for hospital based programs by Olive M. Kimball, EdD, MT(ASCP) Executive Director

Each fall we issue a call for volunteers to conduct site visits and complete paper reviews and are always impressed with the positive responses. As we prepare the recruitment forms this year we note that there is a special need for experienced site visitors to visit hospital based CLS/MT programs as well as for histotechnology programs in any setting. From this it should not be implied that we are oversupplied with site visitors for CLT/MLT programs, for we are not. However, we will focus on information related more specifically to CLS/MT, with the understanding that qualified histotechnology volunteers are urgently needed.

Careful selection and assignment of site visitors are the responsibilities of the NAACLS staff. Many factors are taken into account at the time of decision. Site visitors' experiential background is important and it is not only their professional expertise but their work with the NAACLS accreditation process that is assessed. Such experience might include paper reviews completed as well as how they have been evaluated as site visitors in the past. They may also have served on NAACLS' committees. Their geographic location is considered both to avert any possible conflict of interest as well as to restrict the costs of travel.

Along with consideration of all of these criteria, site visitors must be selected for the appropriate program level and, wherever possible, hospital based volunteers are selected for hospital based programs, and volunteers from academic institutions are selected for visits to academic institutions. It is the latter criterion which is becoming increasingly difficult to organize because the number of volunteers from hospital programs has dwindled and it is often necessary to assign academic based volunteers to visit hospital programs. When this becomes necessary, there is always at least one visitor from a hospital based program included in the team.

Although hospital based faculty may not be fully receptive to academic based faculty as visitors, it should be remembered that academic faculty undoubtedly worked in a hospital at some point in their careers and probably participate in the student laboratory teaching. Also, because the nature of their responsibilities allows flexibility to participate in professional activities, academic faculty often have more experience as site visitors than do hospital based faculty. Further, because of the larger pool of available academic faculty, it is more likely that a visitor from a nearby institution can be assigned, thus reducing the cost of the visit, than it might have been if a hospital based individual were assigned.

NAACLS staff continue to make carefully considered assignments of visitors to all programs, taking into account experience, proximity and sensitivity to the program's configuration and the institution's mission. Until such time as the pool of hospital based faculty may be greatly expanded, it will be necessary to assign academic faculty to hospital programs. As in the past, programs will continue to have the right to decline an assigned team member and staff will then begin again the assignment process. However, our experience has been that academic faculty have been very successful as site visitors for hospital based programs.

As you receive this year's announcement and Volunteer Recruitment Form to complete and return to NAACLS, we hope that you will reflect upon these comments, that you will volunteer, and that you will assist with the recruitment of others, especially for hospital based CLS/MT programs and for histotechnology.

Dr. Kimball is NAACLS Executive Director.

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