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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!

 

ASCT Student Contest Details and Winners

The 2012 Student Case Presentation Contest is now open!  The ASCT Annual Conference is April 13-15th, 2012 in Seattle, Washington. We are inviting all currently enrolled students to attend the conference and participate in the case presentations. Each year up to 10 students are selected to present their case presentation in person. Because we know that not all students can attend the conference, we also invite all students to submit their presentation for a computer loop that is shown during the break time sessions of the conference. The case presentations are scheduled for the morning of Saturday, April 14th, 2010 at 8:15-10:00am.

Submission information
Student informative letter
Program Director information letter
2012 Submission Form
Guidelines for power points

Warren R. Lang Student Awards
Each year at the ASCT Annual Scientific Conference, 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. 

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 2010 Wage and Vacancy Survey. The Survey Results are 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. 
 

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

Resources
ADVANCE for Medical Laboratory Professionals Student & New Grad Center

The Pap Test, Who Needs It?

Our revised Pap Test brochure will assist you in answering questions such as; What is a Pap test?, Should I have one?, How do I prepare? and more.  You may download, print and share this valuable resource.

2011 ASCT Warren R. Lang Student Winners
This award is funded by donations to the ASCT Foundation.  

1st - Danica Rose Manabat of UCLA for:
The Spread of Deadly Aggressive Malignant Melanoma Invades Multiple Systems

2nd - Bailey Trahan of Fletcher Allen for:
Recurrent Metastic Granulosa Cell Tumor

3rd -  Maleah Summerville of the University of Arkansas for:
Primary Carcinoid Tumor of the Lung in a Female Smoker

Computer Presenter - Binita Thapa of ACPHS for:
Anaplastic large cell lymphoma in plural fluid