Student Forum

Student Membership

Open to students enrolled in approved schools of cytotechnology. A letter from the school (including completion date) is required for membership.  Student membership dues are $20 per year.  Upon graduation, current student members can renew at the same discounted rate of $20, for their first year of employment.  Join today!


As you can see the ASCT has been busy this year in fulfilling our mission and vision, to serve you and our profession as the collective voice for cytotechnologists.

 

Selected highlights from the past year:

  • ASCT represented the cytotechnology profession by attending and participating in the meetings of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee (CLIAC), and sponsoring a survey to address the Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) for cytology Proficiency Testing (PT). Our membership survey results were presented to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
  • ASCT represented cytotechnologists in the workforce by becoming an active member organization of the Coordinating Council on the Clinical Laboratory Workforce (CCCLW) and sponsoring the ASCT 2008 Wage and Vacancy Survey. The Survey Results have been emailed to our members.
  • ASCT represented cytology laboratories as an active participant in the Joint Commission (JC) Professional and Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC), helping to develop and revise cytology accreditation standards for the JC Standards Improvement Initiative (SII). The ASCT is also an active member of the Cytopathology Education and Technology Consortium (CETC), contributing and endorsing the “HPV Test Utilization” document this year.
  • ASCT represented cytotechnology educators by endorsing the “Cytology Schools Under Threat” letter sponsored by the American Society of Cytopathology (ASC) and co-sponsoring a Cytotechnology Educators’ Forum with the ASC.


Use your membership to show support for such continued activities and efforts on your behalf and for our profession. And to acknowledge your fellow cytotechnologists who as ASCT Board Members, Regional Directors, Committee Chairs and Committee members volunteer thousands of hours annually to ensure that the mission and goals of the Society are accomplished.
 

 

Scholarships
Wanda Culbreth Cytotechnology Student Scholarship
ASC - Geraldine Colby Zeiler Award
NJ Association of Cytology Antonin Kostecky Award
VT/NH Cytotechnology Association Scholarship


ASCT Student Contest Details and Winners
Each year at the ASCT Annual Meeting, all currently enrolled cytology students are invited to present an interesting case. The ASCT/Warren R. Lang Student Awards are presented to the students with the best interesting case presentations.
($150 for first place, $100 for second place and $50 for third place).

Both content and presentation are considered when determining awards. All student participants will each receive a "Certificate of Recognition" and be acknowledged in the ASCT Voice and on the website. This is a wonderful opportunity for students to showcase their talents and meet and interact with other students and cytotechnologists. 
2010 Student Submission Form
Guidelines for student presentations


2009 ASCT Warren R. Lang Student Winners
This award is funded by donations to the ASCT Foundation.  

1st Place:  Akewa-Bah Korotoumou of MD Anderson:  "FNA of Forearm Mass:  Soft Tissue Myoepithelioma”

 2nd Place:  Apryll Minnis of Fletcher Allen: "Hepatocellular carcinoma presenting in a 33 year old female”

3rd Place:  Mayra Sanchez of MD Anderson: “FNA of Right Inguinal Node:  Extrmedullary Hematopoiesis”

4th Place Honorable Mention:  Rafat Jalal: “Malignant Mesothelioma in a patient with no known asbestos exposure”

Computer Presentation Winners
Fatimah Abdullah, MD Anderson:  “Ileo-Conduit Urine:  Urothelial Carcinoma”
Sarah Friend, Fletcher Allen: “Metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma presenting in a Chest Wall Mass”