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New course: ISO 15189:2022 What labs need to know about the changes

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Who we are

Program Office for Laboratory Quality Management (POLQM) goal is to address the increasing need in Canadian and international laboratories for Laboratory Quality Managers as required by ISO15189:2012 'Medical Laboratories – Particular Requirements for Quality and Competence.'
The Certificate Course in Laboratory Quality Management (LQM) is a program within the University of British Columbia Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.

LQM Program updates


The LQM 2024 program will be starting on January 10, 2024. Registration opens on September 1, 2023.
 

Announcements

The POLQM 2023 conference will be held in June 19 &20, 2023

Registration opens now. See you in June, 2023 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.  

We are launching two new courses in 2023

A short, on demand online course on the ISO 15189: 2022 standard and the changes coming. Ready in February 2023. A new online, mentored course in antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Ready in September 2023.

POLQM Celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the Laboratory Quality Management Certificate Program

The 2022 session of the Certificate Course for Laboratory Quality Management(LQM) has successfully finished in June. In addition to our anticipated 26 Canadian participants, we were also joined by 19 international participants, all laboratory professionals from Saudi Arabia, United Arab  Emirates, Bangladesh, Trinidad and Tobago, and United States. It is a goal of the LQM […]

Welcome to POLQM’s new website

We have updated our website. Welcome to our new site: https://polqm.med.ubc.ca We have re-designed our website for better access to information. Please update your bookmarks. Thank you!!  


Dr. Noble’s blog

Making Medical Lab Quality Relevant

  • Giving Back and Paying Forward - 2023
  • Human Performance Errors (HPEs) and EQA
  • Meeting Customer Threshold Needs in the Laboratory Proficiency Testing Cycle
  •  World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week 2022
  • Keeping Proficiency Testing Relevant (Team 2)
  • Understanding the Laboratory Proficiency Testing Cycle - Part 3
  • The “Guiding Principles” of External Quality Assessment – PT/EQA
  • Understanding the "Why" of Laboratory Proficiency Testing
  • Laboratory Quality in the Research Laboratory
  • Celebrating World Accreditation Day – 2022 (Plus…..!)

Laboratory Quality Management Program
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2211 Wesbrook Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 2B5
Tel 604 827 1333
Email lqm@pathology.ubc.ca
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