ASCP Battles Workforce Shortage on Many Fronts

Building a laboratory workforce to meet the future: ASCP Task Force on the Laboratory Professionals Workforce.

OBJECTIVES To analyze the demand for services from the nation's medical laboratories, which is predicted to dramatically increase as our citizens age and millions receive insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act. METHODS A systematic review of relevant publications and databases was conducted to assess the current state of the nation's medical laboratory workforce and to examine the...

Battling cancer on many fronts. Meeting on New Battlefields in Human Cancer--Attacking in Many Fronts.

Introduction in March 2008, around 100 young scientists met at the Spanish national cancer centre (cnio) in Madrid, Spain, to share their results with one another and a few invited senior scientists from their fields. the workshop was organized by eight foreign students on the oncotrain programme—supported by the Vi European Framework—who are undertaking their phDs at the cnio in the fields of ...

Can training reduce the rural workforce shortage?

Microtubule motors: moving forward on many fronts

Microtubule motors drive the movement of many different cargoes in eukaryotic cells. A combination of in vitro and in vivo approaches has led to a better understanding of their mechanism of action and function and are also revealing that the microtubule track itself may have an important role to play in directing cargo movement within the cell.

Cardiology's workforce shortage: implications for patient care and research.

The common wisdom at the end of the 20th century was that the United States was training too many specialists, including cardiologists.1 By 2001, however, there was increasing evidence that the supply of cardiologists was not meeting the growing demand. That year, as presidentelect of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), I appointed a task force to evaluate cardiology workforce. The task f...