Session Handouts can be accessed via the online program.

1. Select the session of interest.
2. Handouts (if provided by presenters) will be located under the "Resources." 

**Note: handouts are typically only posted as PDFs, six slides per page.

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• Please submit all comments online by March 31, 2018.

• 9:00 am – 9:30 am                  MediaLab, Inc.

• 9:30 am – 10:00 am                Siemens Healthineers

• 10:00 am – 10:30 am              American Medical Technologist

• 10:30 am – 11:00 am              Bio-Rad Laboratories

• The Diagnostic Management Team: A Solution for Diagnostic Error and Inappropriate Test Utilization

• Beyond the “Teach Out Plan”: Planning for Continuity of Business

• Note Taking Skills for Student Success
• Want a Quick and Easy Way to Improve Your Course? Let the CAT Out of the Bag!
• Microbiology Clinical Intensive Rotation-Education’s Response to Changes in Industry
• The Colorful Hats of a Program Director

Poster & Technology Demonstrations Abstracts, Questions & Online Quiz

• To access the online quiz, please visit the CLEC online community.  P.A.C.E.® credit can only be obtained by submitting your answers online.
• Click here to access the paper form of the online quiz.  This form is for attendee purposes only.  It will not be graded.  Quiz must be taken online only.

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• Making the Tacit Explicit: Helping Students Develop Approaches to Data Analysis and Problem Solving

• “Leave” Them Thinking: Using Interleaving to Promote Retention in a Capstone Review Course
• Hot Topics:
  • To Change or Not to Change
  • Clinical Practicum Evaluations: Getting Bench Preceptor “Buy-In” for Thoughtfully Completing Evaluations
  • Putting the CARE Back in HealthCARE
• ECLIPS (Excellence in Clinical Laboratory Integration into Interprofessional Simulation):  Bringing Lab Education into a New Era
• Guided Career Paths in Clinical Laboratory Sciences

• LL01 – Clinical Laboratory Science Graduate Student Research without Funding
• LL02 – Did Someone Say FREE? Utilizing a Learning Management System in a Hospital based Program
• LL03 – Entry Level Curriculum: What Is It and How Could I Use It?
• LL04 – Preparing for Evolving Clinical Microbiology Rotations
• LL05 – Critical Conversations
  • Handout #1
  • Handout #2
  • Handout #3

• R01 – New Faculty Roundtable
• R02 – MLS Programs Only
• R03 – MLT Programs Only
• R04 – Hospital-Based Programs Only
• R05 – Discussing the Discussion: Why Discussion Boards Are Vital in Online Teaching
• R06 – A Program Saved by Community Funded Partnering
• R07 – Effective Phlebotomy Programs — Training Phlebotomists that Employers Want to Hire
• R08 – Quality Improvement: Teaching Systems Theory
• R09 – Face-to-Face Labs vs. Hybrid Labs: A Comparison of Student Performance in an Introductory Microbiology Course for a Two-year Period
• R10 – Challenges Encountered with Clinical Affiliation Agreements
• R11 – e-Accessibility – The 5 W’s … and How!
• R12 – Scheduling Clinicals in a Hospital-Based Program
• R13 – FERPA Compliance in the Digital Age
• R14 – Lead Testing IPE Collaboration with Nursing Program
• R15 – MASH — A Blast from Past to Combat Shortages
• R16 – e-Portfolios Using PowerPoint
• R17 – Engaging Students in State Professional Societies: Meetings, Posters, and Student Bowl
• R18 – Onsite Clinical for Blood Bank
• R19 – Replenishing the Medical Laboratory Scientist Supply: Innovative Education Partnership
• R20 – Characteristics of Effective Educators
• R21 – Surviving Huge Budget Cuts
• R22 – Incorporating Interprofessional Education (IPE) into the MLS Curriculum

• Grants! A Guide to Finding Money for CLS Professionals
• The Use of Virtual Laboratories to Enhance the Laboratory Sciences Curriculum
• Best Practices for Hospital-based MLS Programs
• Hot Topics:
  • Gotcha! Grabbing Attention with Interactive Course Objects
  • Using Yuja for Online and Hybrid Delivery
  • Kahoot – Developing Engagement with Low Cognitive Overhead

• Strategies for a Successful Program Assessment
  • Handout #1
  • Handout #2
• Pre- and Post-Analytic Phases — What Is Important?
• Medical Laboratory Educators Choose Wisely
• Writing in the Discipline of CLS:  Writing Intense Pedagogy

• Humor in the Classroom: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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• Agenda
• Minutes – August 2017 Business Meeting
• ESA Presentation Materials
• CEPI Presentation Materials

• Developing Multidiscipline Clinical Laboratory Educational Programs to Meet the Challenges of Delivering Personalized Care Medicine
• Real-time & Paperless Clinical Recordkeeping
• Professional Development Assessment in Multiple Learning Formats and Environments
• Harvesting Publication-Ready Manuscripts from the Senior Capstone Experience

• Educational Leadership: Lessons Learned from Harvard
  • Handout #1
  • Handout #2

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P.A.C.E.® Attendee Letter – Instructions for obtaining P.A.C.E® credit at CLEC 2018.

Online Overall Meeting Evaluation – Tell us how we did!  Evaluate the overall CLEC 2018 meeting online.  Deadline for submission is March 31, 2018.

Call for Proposals CLEC 2019 – online program proposal submission; deadline is April 30, 2018

Call for Abstracts CLEC 2019 –  poster and technology demonstration submission instructions; deadline is October 1, 2018.

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Thank you to the volunteers who created an outstanding program for CLEC 2018.

• Karen Chandler, CLEC 2018 Co-Chair
• Brandy Greenhill, CLEC 2018 Co-Chair
• Muneeza Esani
• Jun Gu
• Sharon Verg Johnson
• Deidre Parsons
• Joan Polancic
• Linda Smith
• Theresa Spain
• Mary Lou Turgeon
• Darius Wilson, ESA Chair, 2016-2018