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Important Reminders

• 2009 ASCCP Algorithm and Update on HPV Genotyping Published

The ASCCP recently published it's 2009 Algorithm and update on HPV Genotyping and management of HR HPV+/Cytology Negative women age 30 years and older. You may download from the ASCCP website at http://www.asccp.org/consensus.shtml. To discuss these guidelines, follow this link. For more information about these updated guidelines, visit 2009 ASCCP HPV Algorithm and 2006 ASCCP Guidelines.

• 2009 Cytology PT Test Proposed Changes: January 15, 2009- Please go to ProficiencyTesting for information.

• For any State Societies, National Societies, International Societies or Cytotechnology Schools who wish to set up there own Blogs or Wiki pages, please contact me. You can reach me by email at any time. (Remember....this is a FREE service to you! Why not take advantage of it!!)

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Please Help Out our Tikiwiki Developer Friends!!
By: Jana Sullinger, MD  on: Wed 13 of May, 2009 12:27 UTC  (518 Reads)

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Nominate Tiki for the 2009 Community Choice Awards Nominations are now open for the 2009 Community Choice Awards Please help nominate Tiki by using this link r clicking on the picture below.: http://sourceforge.net/community/cca09/nominate/?project_name=TikiWiki%20CMS/Groupware&project_url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/ I am asking our visitors to help our Tikiwiki developer friends by nominating there project on Sourceforge. I know most of you are saying, "who?....what?....why?...". The CYTOPATHNET site you visit is based on the efforts of an open source community of dedicated passionate developers who have on many occasions, helped me with this site when I was having difficulties. They represent a true example of teamwork and collaboration across countries...a true worldwide social community who came together to build something. My hats off to them. I would greatly appreciate it, if you would join me in thanking them for their contribution by voting for their Tikiwiki CMS/Groupware system by clicking the link below. Thank you all!!! Nominations close on May 29, 2009, so time is short. The most nominated projects will become finalists in their categories. Finalists will be announced on June 22nd. The winners will be revealed on July 23 during our infamous party at OSCON.

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Cytology Proficiency Testing Proposed Rule
By: Jana Sullinger, MD  on: Sat 02 of May, 2009 23:45 UTC  (567 Reads)

The Cytology Proficiency Testing Proposed Rule was published in the Federal Register on January 16, 2009.

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Site Upgrade
By: Jana Sullinger, MD  on: Sat 02 of May, 2009 04:42 UTC  (496 Reads)

Site Upgrade to v 2.4. We upgraded to Tikiwiki 2.4. This will help site performance. We were able to fix the image thumbnail issue. In addition, some security fixes were applied.

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National Cytotechnology Day
By: Jana Sullinger, MD  on: Wed 29 of Apr, 2009 22:33 UTC  (591 Reads)

May 13 has been designated National Cytotechnology Day (NCD). Since 1985, NCD commemorates Dr. George Papanicolaou's contributions to the field of medicine, occuring on his birthday each year. May 12-18, 1985 became the first ever National Cytotechnology Week.

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How Did You Celebrate Lab Week 2009?
By: Jana Sullinger, MD  on: Sun 26 of Apr, 2009 16:20 UTC  (533 Reads)

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This past week was Lab Week...how did you celebrate it in your lab? Please submit your stories to us to share what your lab did to celebrate. Continue reading to see how we celebrated in our Lab.

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Items of Interest

• Cytology Proficiency Improvement Act of 2007: Current Bill Status
• 2006 Cytology PT Educational Status Continues: Sanctions for 2006 Suspended (http://cytopathnet.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=45)
• Join the CYTOPATHNET-L Listserv today!!! Visit CYTOPATHNET Listserv for information how to join TODAY!!! To join our CYTOPATHNET Google Group, which allows for easy searchable online archives, easy to use interface and easy online access.

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• Surveys- Take our brief Survey on Cytology PT (See Surveys. (For Registered users.).

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For anyone interested in posting content to CYTOPATHNET, please send me a message and I will make sure you have the right permissions assigned.

I have begun recreating much of the prior content out of the old site into a new format that is based on TikiWiki. I have posted most of the CLIA Forum articles that Sandra Fite, CT(ASCP) has contributed over the years. The idea behind CYTOPATHNET has always been to create an online community for collaboration and sharing of ideas. Tiki allows for this for the adventuresome in providing a way for users to work collectively on document creation, allow for posting of news articles, online forums, and user Blogs.

I wanted to thank everyone for their continued patience and support as I implement these upgrades. As you may or may not be aware, I maintain the site alone on top of a very demanding work schedule, which has definitely cut into my time that I can devote to CYTOPATHNET. That is why it is so very important that the CYTOPATHNET community GET ACTIVE and use CYTOPATHNET in the way it was intended. It needs your DIRECT INPUT! I want to thank Sandra Fite for her longtime dedication and support in providing articles and feedback on CLIA issues. This will certainly continue (unless I hear differently from Sandra ).

And THANK YOU to our users cytocox UserPagecytocox for their contribution of commentary!!!! WELCOME ABOARD!!!

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CYTOPATHNET users who had previously registered will have to register again under this new site design. This will assure that we have the most current email address for you, and allow you to update your preferences and information.

Individual users upon registering will obtain their own person Wiki area, which will allow you to compose your own home page and personal Wiki. You can also access your personal messages here, review any Forum or Wiki/Blog watches and To-Do? lists. The best way to find out what is available to you, is to register and explore away!

What is TikiWiki?

We will be putting together a Tutorial on How-To? user TIKI for CYTOPATHNET. If you would like to help with this project, please visit this link, http://cytopathnet.org/tiki-index.php?page=Tutorial%3A+How+To+Post+to+a+Blog.

To find out more about TikiWiki, please visit this link. Then, be sure to edit and set your MyTiki settings in order to take advantage of all of the great features of this site. Your MyTiki area will allow you to set up web access to your email account, set task reminders, upload notes and files, and create your own user web page, all about you! You can read more at http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=MyTiki.