Volume 90 - Fall 2005	Download

CEO's corner by Olive M. Kimball, PhD, EdD Chief Executive Officer

The summer issue of NAACLS News provided information about a NAACLS task force convened to explore development of accreditation standards for programs awarding a doctorate in laboratory practice. This issue provides a glimpse of some of the background work the Graduate Task Force has been engaged in. Randall Lambrecht explores an important issue frequently raised in his article, "Degree Creep in the Health Professions: A Misunderstood Notion." He explains where the Task Force stands on that issue.

In a brief summary taken from her much longer paper on the history of the CLS/MT profession, Lucy Randles searched the literature to aid our understanding of the development of the profession. In addition to these efforts, the Task Force has examined the needs of employers and the value to health care that the doctorate will provide. There has been initial discussion about competencies and standards that would be met by programs producing graduates for this new healthcare practitioner.

NAACLS will collaborate with the ASCLS Practice Doctorate Task Force (PDTF) in developing competencies and curriculum. In addition, both ASCLS and ASCP have been asked to nominate individuals to add to the NAACLS Task Force.

NAACLS and ASCLS are not the only organizations thinking about and working on developing practice doctorates. Past President David Gale was invited to speak to several national meetings addressing doctoral level practice. The most recent were held in October. One was in Washington, convened by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and another in Chicago by the Higher Learning Commission, the regional accrediting body for universities located in the Midwest.

There are now major studies and reports looking at emerging doctorates. An Australian study, "Research Training in Doctoral Programs," looked at the increasing number of professional doctorates and their close connection with industry partners fostering innovation. The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has just come out with a major study, "The Responsive PhD: Innovations in US Doctoral Education." It calls for new paradigms, practices and partnerships in development of doctoral levels. The Graduate Task Force will continue to develop a bibliography, already fairly lengthy, and with the Board's approval make it public in the future.

We live in interesting and challenging times. The practice doctorate has the potential for refocusing and redirecting the CLS profession.

"The Responsive PhD: Innovations in U.S. Doctoral Education." The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Princeton, NJ, September 2005.

"Research Training in Doctoral Programs: What can be Learned From Professional Doctorates?" McWilliam, E, et al. Canberra ACT, February 2002.

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