[2] It was founded in 1973, after the United States Department of Education pressured the American Society for Clinical Pathology(ASCP) to disband their Board of Schools (BOS) following monopolization concerns.
[2] NAACLS program graduates are eligible to sit for American Society for Clinical Pathology(ASCP) certifications.
By hiring people with an undergraduate degree in a science (usually Biology, Chemistry, or Biochemistry) and training them on-the-job if they can, avoiding the accreditation process entirely as well as the certification of the individual.
If the clinical laboratories don’t require certification of their employees, we lose a subset of our target applicants resulting in decreased admissions and likely closure of accredited programs.
More importantly, an increase in laboratory workers who are not properly educated dilutes our profession and professional identity, damaging our healthcare system....The downstream effects of this quick fix are widespread.