| News and Updates |
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| WANTED: Subject Matter Experts! |
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NCCT is looking for subject matter experts in all of the disciplines it tests.
These experts fill many roles for NCCT, most of which are paid consulting positions.
To learn more, just download this form.
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| New CE Courses |
The following CE courses are now available
- 2012 Update CPT Codes - 4 clock hours
- An Introduction to Sepsis - 2 clock hours
- An Overview of Labor, Delivery, and Dystocia - 1 clock hour
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - 3 clock hours
- Autism Spectrum Disorders - 3 clock hours
- Body Fluids - The Ins and Outs - 5 clock hours
- Depression - 2 clock hours
- Phlebotomy Order of Draw - 5 clock hours
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - 3 clock hours
- Schizophrenia - 3 clock hours
- Working with Difficult People - 2 clock hours
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| The Center for Excellence in Education & CPI® Certification |
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The Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) offers a comprehensive faculty development program for career college instructors,
including basic orientation for new instructors and performance boosters for experienced instructors.
Career colleges can subscribe to the faculty development program on an annual basis.
The program provides each instructor, including those that are adjunct/part-time,
at the participating career college with 12 hours of training and continuing education per year.
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The CEE’s faculty development program for instructors includes the competency standards identified by the Career College Association (CCA)
and the instructional skill competencies identified by NCCT. The CEE development program includes preparation for the NCCT
Certified Postsecondary Instructor® (CPI) certification examination.
CEE also offers annual continuing education programs that are acceptable for CPI annual recertification.
For an additional fee, the CEE courses are available to CPI certificants who qualified for the exam through experience.
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For more information about CEE career college subscriptions and/or taking CE courses, go to www.iaf-cee.org.
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| Medical Supplies |
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Hurry, this great deal won't last long! We are now offering some great medical supply products.
We have a limited quantity of stethoscopes and blood pressure & stethoscope kits.
Click here for more details.
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| Good News: Shorter Tests! |
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Since the beginning of 2010, NCCT has reduced the number of questions in some of its certification exams,
particularly the longer exams. NCCT is doing this at the advice of its psychometricians who say this
will minimize examinee fatigue. Exams will typically have 10-20% fewer questions, but item proportions
in exam categories will not change. Changes will be seamless!
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| Exam Coordinator FAQ |
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Please read Question #1 regarding the use of Test Site Codes on this new form,
created just for our Exam Coordinators. Learn how to add your questions, too!
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| New 30 Day Retest Policy |
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As of January 30, 2010, the retesting policy will change for NCCT and MMCI:
Students who fail a certification exam and want to retest will be able to do so after 30 days!
Read more here!
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| Rescheduling Exams |
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Effective immediately, candidates who reschedule more than once will be charged a rescheduling fee of $10 each time.
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| New Phlebotomy FAQ Resource! |
- Is it acceptable to draw blood without orders?
- What are the effects of underfilling heparin tubes?
- How long should you wait after the patient receives a transfusion before drawing blood?
Answers to these and hundreds more of the most commonly asked questions on specimen collection
are now available in Blood Specimen Collection FAQs. This 376-page soft cover reference book
provides authoritative answers to nearly 300 of the most commonly asked phlebotomy questions.
Published by the Center for Phlebotomy Education, every answer in this reference is highly researched
and reflects the current CLSI standards, OSHA guidelines, and published literature.
This book was researched and co-edited by Dennis J. Ernst MT(ASCP), Director of the Center for
Phlebotomy Education and member of the NCCT Board of Testing.
Click here for more information and for an interactive preview of Blood Specimen Collection FAQs.
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| MA Exam Grid Update |
Click here
to see the 2009 MA exam grid representing our 2008 job analysis update.
Although there are no changes in job categories for the 2009 exam,
there will be more emphasis in some content areas (e.g. Medical Procedures) and less in others.
Knowing this will help you prepare better for our MA certification exam.
Thank you to our MA Exam Committee volunteers and to everyone who responded to our job
analysis survey from across the United States. Your input mattered!
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| New CPI Review Books Available |
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The second editions of our Certified Postsecondary Instructor Review Books are now available for
purchase through the NCCT Professional Store. Filled with valuable information, our books provide a
comprehensive review for your CPI certification exam. These newly revised editions include updated
information on the CPI exam, plus select articles from the ERIC Digest - the world’s largest digital library
of educational literature. Go to the NCCT Professional Store to purchase our CPI Review Package -
The CPI Review Package includes both CPI Review Book 1 and CPI Review Book 2 for just $44.95.
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| CE Updates |
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NCCT may accept your outside CE courses/college courses for recertification credit.
If you want NCCT to consider outside coursework, complete the
Application for Outside CE Approval form,
attach all applicable documentation and send it to NCCT with your recertification application
and recertification payment. You will be notified if the coursework is acceptable.
If the outside CE course CH does not equal 14 CH, you will need to make up the difference with NCCT CE courses.
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| Attention California Phlebotomists! |
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Questions about obtaining or renewing your CA state certification?
Go to the LFS website
or call 510-620-3800 for assistance.
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