NATIONAL LABORATORY TRAINING NETWORK

Quality Laboratory Practice through Continuing Education

• Alliance for Prudent Use of Antibiotics 
   
• American College of Physicians - emerging antibiotic resistance is a clinical theme for 2000-2002  
     
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
   
  • Biological Agents - Plague Training Module
      
  • Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
      
  • Multi-level Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Educational Resources (MASTER) -    Division of Laboratory Systems & Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
     
  • National Center for Infectious Diseases
       
    • Antibiotic resistance - Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases
    • Antimicrobial susceptibility testing laboratory fact sheets - Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
• Food and Drug Administration  
   
• Infectious Diseases Society of America

• American College of Physicians/American Society of Internal Medicine  (ACP/ASIM)- articles and links
• Bioterrorism-Related Information
  • Air Force University Bibliographies
  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Weapons of Mass Destruction
  • Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
  • Homeland Security & Defense
  • Terrorism: The Threat and Post 9/11 Trends
  • Islam
  • Media Coverage of 9/11
  • Prisoners of War - Missing in Action
  • Operation Enduring Freedom
  • Law of Armed Conflict in Air and Space Operations
  • Non Lethal Weapons
  • Narco-Terrorism

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Biological Agents/Diseases; Lab Protocols; Chemical Agents
  • Bioterrorism Overview; Role of the Clinical Laboratory; Clinical Aspects; Organism Identification Tables
  • Training Resources
    

• U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) -  educational programs and to links to other useful sites

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
   
• Centers for Medciare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
   
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

• Foodsafety.gov
   
• PulseNet

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Office of Genetics and Disease Prevention - a comprehensive reference on genetics and genetic testing
  • Division of Laboratory Systems - resources for clinical genetics laboratories including the text of the Notice of Intent: Genetic Testing Under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments - HTML, PDF
     
• DNA  From the Beginning - a three part tutorial about the basics of DNA, genes, and heredity
• Glossary of Genetic Terms
  
• The Human Genome Project -  the National Human Genome Research Institute

• National Center for STD, HIV and TB Prevention
   
• National Center for Infectious Diseases - the Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) journal and information on diseases, prevention, current topics and training opportunities
   
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease - general information for the healthcare provider and general public on infectious diseases and immunity
   
• National Network of STD-HIV Prevention Training Centers -the clinician's and educator's resource for the latest information about STDs and HIV including a 3-day laboratory methods course
     
• World Health Organization - information on sexually transmitted infections (STI), epidemic updates, links, slide presentations and meetings
    

• CDC Office of Health and Safety
  • Biosafety
  • Links
     
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • Laboratory Safety Program

• Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES)
  • Distance Education
     
• American Medical Technologists (AMT)
   
• American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS)
    
• American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP)
  • Accredited MLT, PBT, MT or HT programs
  • Careers in Medical Laboratory Technology
  • Lectures on-line
  • Self-Assessment publications
  • Training events
  • Teleconferences
     
• Health Services Career Guide (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
   
• New Jersey Distance Learning Network

• Dr. Fungus - on-line reference to all things mycological
    
• Medical Mycology Online - WWW resource of clinically significant mycological information
  

• Name that Bug - identify the mystery organism
   
• Molecular Expressions: Images from the Microscope
   
• Microscopy Primer
   
• The Center For Phlebotomy Education

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • DPDx - identification and diagnosis of parasites
  • Parasitology and Tropical Medicine - atlas of links
     
• Korkmaz's Parasitology Resources 

• Westgard

• Colorado Association for Continuing Medical Laboratory Education - a self study course on Intermediate Mycobacteriology available for purchase from CACMLE.  Includes general update on the laboratory identification of M. tuberculosis and other mycobacteria   
     
• The Pathology of Tuberculosis - a  presentation by Venkatesh Maruthy Shashidhas at the Fifi School of Medicine
   
• Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center -  a library of educational materials on tuberculosis and mycobacteriology  
   
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Division of AIDS/STD, and TB Laboratory Research
  • The Core Curriculum on Tuberculosis: What the Clinician Should Know (PDF)