Training for Doctors

Medical doctors will review all abnormal cervical cases referred to them and plan treatment for the patients. Doctors will also refer patients that present with cervical cancer to oncology

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Training for lab assistants

Laboratory assistants play key roles in accepting and processing smear samples. Laboratory assistants need good communication and organizational skills, as well as attention to detail. They also must be able to use general office and medical records software.

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Training for Nurses

Nurses are the first point of contact with patients, so it is imperative for nurses to have people skill. Smear taking is a painless process during which patients feel some pressure and slight discomfort. Our training programme lay emphasis on how to take a good smear.




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Training for Medical Scientists

The training of medical laboratory scientist will include recognition of precancerous cells in gynae cervical samples. Quality control measures is the key to efficiency drive of a medical scientist and their performance measured against quality indicators such as sensitivity and specificity. The training for this category is robust with high standard of expectation.

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Information about the different Training courses

 

  1. The Role of Doctors in the cervical screening programme
  2. Anatomy of the female genital tract
  3. The role of HPV in cervical cancer
  4. Diagnosing pre and cancerous cervical cells
  5. The purpose of colposcopy procedure
  6. Treatment of pre-cancerous cervical cells
  7. Types of treatment:
  8. Large loop Excision of the Transformation Zone (LLETZ)
  9. Cone Biopsy
  10. Post treatment management
  11. Staging Cervical Cancer
  12. Management of women with cervical cancer (Oncology)
  1. Health and safety at work and in the laboratory
  2. Process mapping of cervical gynae slide
  3. Criteria for accepting gynae slides for processing
  4. Procedure for preparing and staining gynae slides
  5. Quality control and staining process of gynae slides
  6. Cover slipping process of stained gynae slides
  7. Procedure for de-staining gynae slides
  8. Procedure for preparing stained gynae slides for screening and reporting
  9. Process for filling gynae slides.
  1. The role of Nurses in cervical screening programme
  2. The female genital tract
  3. The process of Metaplasia and transformation zone
  4. Criteria for taking a good cervical smear
  5. Quality control measure and best practice of cervical smear process
  6. Cervical smear taking process
  7. Fixation of Pap smear for processing
  8. Documentation process
  1. Introduction of the screening programme
  2. The expectation and duration of the course
  3. Interactive session
  4. The anatomy of the female genital tract
  5. The importance of transformation zone
  6. Interactive session
  7. The Normal cellular component of the genital tract
  8. Microscopy
  9. Physiological changes that takes place in the female genital tract
  10. Types of infectious agents associated with the genital tract
  11. Microscopy
  12. Degenerative and regenerative changes in the cervix
  13. Microscopy
  14. The process of dyskaryosis
  15. The Bethesda system
  16. Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN). CIN1, CIN2 and CIN3
  17. Microscopy
  18. Cervical glandular intraepithelial neoplasia (CGIN)
  19. Microscopy
  20. Invasive squamous carcinoma in situ
  21. Microscopy
  22. Adenocarcinoma
  23. Microscopy
  24. Management of women with normal and abnormal smear results
  25. Laboratory based training
  26. Competency test
  27. Graduation and automatic employment offer
  28. Signing of contract with Somed-analytical organisation