Alice, Your discussion of the Los Alamos vrs Chicago/Dartmouth course was timely. I want to clarify the CCS course. The CCS course is bi-annual and given in conjunction with the Society's meeting in the fall and again in the spring or summer. Last summer it was given with the Chicago/Dartmouth course in Chicago and we plan to do this again the summer of 2002. This year it is given in Montpellier France. The course is entirely clinical and covers clinical applications of flow cytometry with a heavy emphasis on analysis of data, especially interpretation and diagnosis. Pitfalls in clinical flow, as well as approaches to difficult cases receive ample coverage. There are no wet labs- only computer labs. The course complements the other courses without overlapping with them and I think both are useful. Research is not covered in the CCS course, only clinical applications. There is little flow cytometric technical theory, but lots of practical how to. Roughly half the students are medical technologists and they are grouped into 2 classes- experienced med techs and inexperienced med techs so that classes match the level of the student. The same is done with the M.D./Ph.D. classes. Therefore, an experienced M.D. gets as much out of the course as an inexperienced med tech. Sorry if I go on too long. I really enjoy the course. It's a lot of fun. If any one has additional quaestions, please contact me. Maryalice > > >There is a loosely-related pair of week-long courses given each year >in the US. >Both emphasize hands-on laboratory work. One course has more of a >research orientation >--- with, for example, lab modules on topics like cell sorting and >GFP and bacterial >DNA fingerprinting. The other course has more of a clinical >orientation -- with lab >modules covering the major clinical applications as well as some >clinical frontiers >(like tetramer staining and cytokine synthesis). Both courses have >good presentation >of the general theory and practice of flow cytometry. > >The research-oriented course in this group has rotated between >Los Alamos, New Mexico >and Bowdoin, Maine. This year it will be at Los Alamos (June 9-15, >2001). Contact >Jim Jett (email: jett@lanl.gov) for details. > >The clinically-oriented course in this group has rotated between >Northwestern University >in Chicago, Illinois and Dartmouth Medical School in Lebanon, New Hampshire. >This year it will be at Dartmouth (15-20 July, 2001). Contact Alice >Givan (email: >givan@dartmouth.edu) for details. Contact >karen.griswold@dartmouth.edu for an application >and brochure. > >In addition to these two rotating courses, there is also a separate >course that >is sponsored by the Clinical Cytometry Society. It is being >presented this summer >in Montpellier, France from May 6-8, 2001. This course was >announced by Maryalice >Stetler-Stevenson (stetler@box-s.nih.gov) in an e-mail to this >network last week. >Contact clee@chaffee.net for more information. > >In terms of the two clinically-oriented courses, my impression is >that the course run >by Maryalice Stetler-Stevenson has more of an emphasis on clinical >diagnosis from >sample patient data whereas the Dartmouth/Chicago course emphasizes >hands-on lab >work to illustrate general flow principles as they are applied to >clinical assays. >Someone should correct me if I am wrong about this. > >In addition to these US courses, there are others around the world. >The Purdue >website tries to list most of them. It is not very up-to-date at >the moment (hint). >http://www.cyto.purdue.edu/flowcyt/educate/courses.htm > > >Alice > >Alice L. Givan >Englert Cell Analysis Laboratory >of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center >Dartmouth Medical School >Lebanon, New Hampshire NH 03756 >tel 603-650-7661 >fax 603-650-6130 >givan@dartmouth.edu Maryalice Stetler-Stevenson Director Flow Cytometry Unit Laboratory of Pathology, NCI, NIH "Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly." The Dalai Lama
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