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Mission statement: INNOVATION, EDUCATION, QUALITY ASSESSMENT, CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT
Terms of Reference ISO Registration Goals & Objectives EQA Participation Awards Publications Surveys Research & Development Annual Reports Annual General Meeting 2011 - photos	QUALITY POLICY We at CMPT are a university based, peer directed program, that provides Innovative External Quality Assessment for microbiology laboratories providing services for public and patient health. Our vision is to be recognized provincially, nationally, and internationally as a leader for EQA innovation, education and continued quality improvement for the benefit of healthcare, our participants and our program. CMPT is committed to its Quality Management System, and regular review for continual improvement of its effectiveness. The CMPT Quality Policy is the framework for the regular establishment and review of quality objectives. CMPT is committed to regular review of the Quality Policy to ensure its suitability to the program.
	CMPT’S HISTORY
	1982 - created In 1982, in recognition of the necessity of an education oriented proficiency program to serve the local needs of large and intermediate sized microbiology laboratories in British Columbia, the Clinical Microbiology Proficiency Testing (CMPT) was developed as a service program within the former Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology of the University of British Columbia.
	1995 - Over the next 6 years, CMPT expanded to being the sole mandated proficiency program for all clinical bacteriology laboratories in British Columbia. Since 1990, the program has significantly changed with respect to academic activities, the services provided, the number of participating laboratories, and the number of provinces involved.
	1996 - By 1996, CMPT expanded to provide external quality assessment tools for clinical bacteriology, which included identification and susceptibility testing, Gram stain performance and interpretation, quantitative urine culture assessment, environmental (water) bacteriology, dermatophyte mycology, and enteric parasitology (partial program). The laboratories participating in the Clinical Bacteriology Program included those from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories, Yukon, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Water bacteriology participants included laboratories in B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. In addition, international programs were initiated with the United States.
	1997-1998 This year marked a major departure for the CMPT program with respect to the approach and style of challenge samples submitted throughout the year. For the first time the focus of the clinical bacteriology program was oriented towards clinical relevancy as its primary target, and conventional identification challenges were more selective and focused primarily on category A laboratories. The greatest impetus for change was the impact of restructuring in the provinces participating in CMPT programs. This was the first full year CMPT provided an enteric parasitology program for clinical microbiology laboratories. This year also represented the first complete year of the newsletter CMPT Connections and of this web site.
	1998-1999 The paper challenge format was introduced in 1998-1999 to extend the arena of laboratory challenges further into the pre-analytic, early phase of laboratory testing. Laboratories from Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland joined the Clinical Bacteriology Program, thus expanding participation in the program coast-to-coast. A two-point grading scale was developed during this time, but was changed to a new numeric scale that was trialed for introduction in 1999.
	In 2000, CMPT embarked on the process of meeting international standards for quality management as cited by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). As a proficiency testing program CMPT should be able to meet the recommendations of ISO Guide 43. These recommendations are encompassed in the standard ISO 9001, Quality Management. The requirements for both are met within the more stringent standard ISO 17025, Quality Management for Testing Laboratories. CMPT recognizes that quality management is a journey and not a goal, and that registration is only a single marker to signify our compliance with international standards of quality. The CMPT Mission Statement was amended to include Continual Improvement. 2007 - CMPT celebrates 25 years of PT and EQA.
	in 2010, Canadian Immunohistochemistry Quality Control (cIQc) - CMPT developed a formal relationship with cIQc. This is another proficiency testing program that is hosted by the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UBC. cIQc is focused on the provision of challenge materials for breast tumour marker testing including, but not limited to, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2). CMPT is providing strategic, quality, administrative, and logistic support to cIQc
	in 2011, a new proficiency testing program “Trichomonas antigen” has been implemented by CMPT. The program’s objective is to provide EQA to those laboratories performing laboratory diagnosis of trichomoniasis using the OSOM Trichomonas Rapid Test (Sekisui Chemical Co). This CMPT program is intended for laboratories performing Trichomonas vaginalis antigen tests using OSOM^® Genzyme Trichomonas Rapid Test kit.
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