Participants in the NGC education program receive four mailings (A through D) of the NGC glass slide program during a year. Each shipment includes five glass slide challenges with an interpretive menu, and the program offers one complimentary interactive online CME activity featuring five select cases with accompanying in-depth discussions and assessment questions.
The Cytopathology Committee encourages all participating laboratories to consider donating quality slides to this program. Requirements for submitting glass slides are located in the Cytopathology Topic Center (under slide submission forms, https://bit.ly/CAP_CTC).
Participating laboratories in the glass slide NGC educational program receive feedback via email with the laboratory reference interpretations and performance statistics for the NGC slides within 20 minutes of faxing the laboratory response form to the CAP.
The complimentary online activity is offered every January with the NGC-A mailing. If enrolled in the NGC glass slide program, the NGC education program has an electable 25 CME/CE credits available, five of which are associated with online activity. Starting in the 2026 NGC-A mailing, an insert with a QR code (included within the packet) directs the program participants to the NGC online registration page where they can register or, if already registered, take the online course.
While enrollees wait for their glass slides to arrive, they can complete their NGC complimentary online learning module and earn CME/CE credits.
Dr. Hegde is a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and director of cytopathology in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Connecticut, Farmington. Dr. Magers is a pathologist with Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital, Ypsilanti, Mich. Both are members of the CAP Cytopathology Committee. Molly Hansen, CT(ASCP), CAP senior cytology technical specialist, is staff to the Cytopathology Committee.
