Continuing Education
LifeStream supports quality learning and provides continuing education to its community partners and employees by providing the following:
American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) Audioconferences.
LifeStream offers a series of audioconferences which focus on the skills and knowledge of professionals working in blood centers, hospital blood banks, transfusion services, testing laboratories and cellular therapy facilities.
AABB audioconferences afford professionals in transfusion medicine and cellular and related biological therapies the opportunity to obtain timely information from recognized experts in the field. AABB audioconferences provide individuals and facilities up-to-date information on current standards, accreditation requirements, medical and scientific advances as well as administrative and management practices.
AABB Continuing Education Credit
Continuing Medical Education Credit: AABB is accredited by the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education (Provider # 0000381) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. AABB designates each audioconference for a maximum of 1.5 contact hours in Category 1 credit toward the American Medical Association Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credit hours spent in the activity.
California Nursing Continuing Education Credit: AABB is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (Provider Number 4341) as a provider of continuing education activities. AABB designates each audioconference for a maximum of 1.8 contact hours.
California Clinical Laboratory Personnel Continuing Education Credit: AABB is an approved accrediting agency for continuing education for California-licensed clinical laboratory personnel. Each audioconference has been approved for a maximum of 1.5 contact hours. AABB’s accrediting agency number is 0011. Credit earned through attendance at audioconferences may be used to fulfill the state requirement for continuing education hours to maintain licensure status.
Perfusionist Continuing Education Units: AABB is approved by the American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion (ABCP) as a provider of Category 1 credit to those perfusionists who attend audioconferences.
American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Teleconferences:
LifeStream offers several of these teleconferences annually. ASCP teleconferences are designed to bring information and insights from world-class faculty to the entire laboratory team on wide-ranging topics that include chemistry and immunohistochemistry, cytology, management, hematology, microbiology, molecular diagnostics, phlebotomy, and surgical pathology.
ASCP Continuing Education Credit
Pathologists: ASCP meets the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) requirements established by the American Board of Pathology. Continuing medical education activities offered by ASCP, like teleconferences, are acceptable for the ABP’s MOC Program, Part II requirements for Life-Long Learning.
Technologists/Technicians: The ASCP designates Teleconferences for the indicated number of Continuing Medical Laboratory Education (CMLE) credit hours. ASCP CMLE credit hours meet the continuing education requirements for the ASCP Board of Registry Certification Maintenance Program.
The audioconferences are provided in LifeStream’s Administrative Building located at:
384 West Orange Show Rd.
San Bernardino, CA 92408
You can register for any session by contacting LifeStream at:
Phone: 909.885.6503, extension 424
Fax: 909.723.1187, Attn: Jennifer Volkmann
Email: jvolkmann@LStream.org
For more information on our education programs, please contact
Jennifer Volkmann, 909.885.6503, extension 424, jvolkmann@LStream.org
Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Meetings:
LifeStream provides education to partner medical facilities on the latest blood banking technology/advances and general information sessions on transfusion services to improve blood product utilization. These meetings are offered quarterly.
2010 AABB Audioconference Schedule
Customer Service/Donor Satisfaction
July 28, 2010
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm (ET) 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm (GMT)
Transfusion Management of Patients on Extracorporeal Circuits
August 11, 2010
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm (ET) 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm (GMT)
Hot Topics in Transfusion Medicine
August 25, 2010
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm (ET) 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm (GMT)
Platelet Antibody Case Studies
September 01, 2010
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm (ET) 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm (GMT)
Recruiting for Specialty Products
October 06, 2010
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm (ET) 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm (GMT)
Blood Management Overview: A Hospital Perspective
October 27, 2010
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm (ET) 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm (GMT)
Transfusion Management of Obstetric Hemorrhage
November 03, 2010
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm (ET) 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm (GMT)
Antibodies- Coming in from the Cold
November 17, 2010
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm (ET) 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm (GMT)
