AACC offers a number of online education programs which provide an opportunity for accruing continuing education credits. Please take a moment to read about the courses offered through AACC.

These online education programs provides comprehensive training in selected areas of laboratory medicine. Graduates receive certificates as evidence of successful completion.

Clinical Laboratory Leadership and Management Certificate Program
The AACC Management Sciences Division has developed this comprehensive online distance learning program to assist laboratory professionals in improving their management skills. Category 1 ACCENT credit will be given.  

Laboratory Support for Diabetes Testing Certificate Program
Designed for laboratory managers and supervisors, senior clinical laboratory scientists, industry scientists, physicians, and other mid- to senior-level laboratory professionals, this program focuses on professional knowledge in the field of diabetes testing.   This online education program provides comprehensive training in selected areas of laboratory medicine. Graduates receive certificates as evidence of successful completion. Category 1 ACCENT credit and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ^TM will be given.

Point-of-Care Specialist Certificate Program
The AACC Critical and Point-of-Care Testing Division has developed this comprehensive online distance learning program to prepare point-of-care specialists for their critical role and to promote standardized best practices in near patient testing. Category 1 ACCENT credit will be given.

Challenges of Interfacing the LIS to the Electronic Health Record (New!)
Originally presented as the Laboratory Information Systems and Medical Informatics Division Symposium on July 18, 2009 at the AACC Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.

Demystifying Clinical Use of Cardiac Markers: Troponin and Natriuretic Peptides
Originally presented as an Educational Satellite Symposium (ESS) at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Annual Meeting on March 28, 2009. Share this program with the cardiologists at your institution; they will be glad you did!

Drug Addiction: From Basic Science to Clinical Laboratory Practice (New!)
Originally presented as the Therapeutic Drug Management and Toxicology Division Symposium on July 18, 2009, at the AACC Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.

Optimizing Platelet Assessment in Patients Receiving Antiplatelet Therapy  (New!)
This program was originally presented as an AACC audioconference on April 2, 2009, and was supported by Accumetrics, Inc. Share this program with your institution’s clinical staff; they will be glad you did!

Personalized Genomics—Hype or Reality? A Debate (New!)  
Originally presented as the Molecular Pathology Division and Nutrition Division Symposium on July 18, 2009 at the AACC Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL. 

Personalized Medicine in Oncology and the Management of Chemotherapeutics (New!)
This meeting took place in Baltimore, MD, on September 23-24, 2009, and was presented by the TDM-TOX Division.

Reducing Laboratory Quackery and Other Forms of Unnecessary Laboratory Testing (New!)
Originally presented as the 14th Annual Management Sciences Division Leadership Seminar on July 18, 2009 at the AACC Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL. 

Weathering the Storm: Surviving and Succeeding in Today’s Economy
Originally presented as an AACC webinar on June 24, 2009.  Share this program with your institution’s administrators; they will be glad you did! 

This online education program provide information in selected areas of laboratory medicine.  Continuing education credit is available. 

Updates and Case Studies in Volatile Alcohols, Glycols, and Clinical Alcohol Testing
Approved for up to 4.0 hours of CME and ACCENT credit, this free course contains four PowerPoint four presentations from leading clinical toxicologists.