The Nominations Committee is currently seeking candidates interested in running for the following Board of Directors Positions:

• Director, Ontario
• Director, Alberta & Northwest Territories
• Director, British Columbia & Yukon

The terms will begin July 1^st, 2025, and each is a three-year term. If you are interested, please forward your name to Sierra Paprocki, Secretary of Nominating Committee, at SierraP@csmls.org and a Nominating Committee member will contact you.

OR you can self-nominate if you collect 2 signatures from current CSMLS membership. The nomination form and additional information can be found here:

Agreement for Nomination Nomination Form Running for Office

The final slate for the election will then be prepared by the Nominating Committee and the electronic voting will open in the Spring. Election results will be announced at the 2025 Annual General Meeting.

Description: To determine the pass score for each certification exam. Pass scores are determined using a modified double Angoff method. Volunteers are subject matter experts representing the profession from across the country.

Please note participants must not be an educator of an MLP program.

Duration: 3 day workshop

Meeting(s): 3-day live meeting in Hamilton, ON

Eligibility: CSMLS members in good standing. Exam panel committee members are invited to attend.

CSMLS Area: Certification

CSMLS contact: Lorna Zilic (lornaz@csmls.org)

We are currently seeking Educators from the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. The commitment will be for two meetings annually, with additional collaboration as required. It is expected that meetings will be held virtually with the potential for one live meeting a year. Live meeting expenses will be covered by the CSMLS.

This will be a 3-year term, renewable for 1 additional term. There will be staggered expiration terms, for continuity, for those Committee Members beginning in 2018. Representatives will be appointed to ensure geographic representation. The Chair will be a CSMLS Board Appointee (for a two-year term). Ex-Officio members will be the CSMLS Chief Executive Officer and the CSMLS Director of Certification and Prior Learning Assessment. This committee is accountable to the CSMLS Board of Directors.

Please send your CV and Letter of interest via email to certification@csmls.org or fax (905-528-4968).

Please share this opportunity with your colleagues.

If you have any questions, please contact the certification department at certification@csmls.org.

Description: To help ensure that CSMLS content production is linked to the needs of the professional community and content produced is relevant and valuable to members.

Duration: 1 year, renewable term

Meeting(s): Quarterly teleconference

Eligibility: CSMLS certified member in good standing

This committee will serve an advisory role to the CSMLS to influence and guide the development of laboratory related content.

We are not accepting applications at this time.

Description: To develop and maintain the national certification examinations. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Prepare, review and update CSMLS examination blueprint and prepare CSMLS examinations
• Review examination drafts, examination performance and reference text list
• Participate, as requested, in: Angoff sessions, Item Writing Workshops, and revisions of competency profiles

Duration: 3-year term

Meeting(s): One live 3-day meeting annually, in Hamilton, ON. Video conferences as required.

All CSMLS meetings are held in English.

Eligibility: CSMLS member in good standing, practising in: MLT General or Diagnostic Cytology or Clinical Genetics or MLA; educators and preceptors are NOT eligible to apply.

CSMLS Area: Certification

Description: To develop and review exam questions using the Competency Profile and Reference Textbooks.

Duration: 4 day workshop

Meeting(s): 1 live, 4 day, meeting in Hamilton, ON

Eligibility: CSMLS member in good standing and subject matter expert

CSMLS Area: Certification

Description: To review, edit and finalize the current competency profile. This process includes communication with stakeholders via feedback and validation surveys, to ensure stakeholder feedback in the competency profile.

Duration: 6-18 month term

Meeting(s): Teleconferences as required.

Eligibility: CSMLS member in good standing, from all aspects of the profession, as required. Exam panel committee members are invited to attend.

CSMLS Area: Certification

We are not accepting applications at this time.

Description: To review and maintain the guidelines related to each award, and to review applications in order to make recipient recommendations

Duration: 2 year staggered term

Meeting(s): 3 annual virtual meetings (Spring, Summer and Fall)

Eligibility:

• CSMLS members in good standing
• Prior experience with grants, scholarships or awards an asset

CSMLS Area: Membership

We are not accepting applications at this time.

We are not accepting applications at this time.

Description: This committee reviews all CSMLS research meetings/projects in which human subjects are involved for their ethical soundness and potential to contribute to the body of knowledge about the health professions. This may also include external requests for ethics reviews submitted by partners or stakeholders for CSMLS.

Duration: 2 years

Meeting(s): 0-3 meetings a year. Meetings are determined by the number of research proposals submitted.

Eligibility: CSMLS Member in good standing. Preference will be given to those with experience in the research ethics and document reviews.

This committee will work along side the Office of the CEO. If you are interested in applying for this opportunity, please send your Resume/CV and a letter of intent, to SierraP@csmls.org by March 7th, 2022.

Description: To brainstorm and develop tactics to better engage medical laboratory professionals in the first 5 years of their career.

Duration: 1 year, non-renewable

Meeting(s): 3 virtual meetings (Spring, Summer and Fall) and 1 mandatory in-person meeting on June 20, 2024, in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Eligibility:

• CSMLS members in good standing with 0-5 years of work experience
• Participants will be selected to ensure diversity of experience, discipline/subject matter expertise, geography, demographics, etc.

CSMLS Area: Marketing and Communications

We are not accepting applications at this time.

Description: We seek new members for the CSMLS Lab Wisely Database Committee.

The purpose of this committee is to ensure that the Lab Wisely database is properly controlled, monitored, and maintained across time.

The committee meets quarterly to review changes and additions to Choosing Wisely Canada (CWC) recommendations and to categorize and tag lab-relevant CWC recommendations for inclusion in the database. Other duties may include making recommendations for changes to the database, auditing the database for performance, and identifying process gaps.

Duration: 2-year term

Meeting(s): 1 quarterly meeting, approximately 1.5 hours long. Video conferences are required. Meeting prework includes identifying and tagging new Choosing Wisely Canada recommendations that can impact the work of Medical Laboratory Professionals. Meetings are conducted in English.

Eligibility: A CSMLS member in good standing, with a solid understanding of the Medical Laboratory profession and related workflows. Past Lab Wisely participants are encouraged to re-apply. Preference will be given to West and East coast participants, as well as molecular/clinical genetics expertise.

If you are interested in this volunteer opportunity, please send your CV and a brief letter of interest via email to research@csmls.org.

Application deadline is Sept. 30, 2024.

Contact: Brandon Djukic (research@csmls.org)