Continuing Education and Custom Hands-on Training

A. Continuing Education

With today’s rapidly developing and growing technology, it is essential to keep pace with relevant knowledge areas in any field. Adequate hands-on training, continuing education, and independent assessment of laboratory operations will have the following benefits:

1. Saves time and money.
2. Improves personnel and productivity.
3. Increases reliability and confidence in laboratory data.
4. Supports laboratory management and decision makers with accurate and up-to-date data.
5. Minimizes potential for errors among laboratory personnel and management, thereby containing financial liability and legal implications.

Although computer-based training is a viable and helpful tool to expedite the learning process, the most valuable learning experience continues to be classroom sessions and face-to-interactions with peers and an experienced instructor. Many trivialities/simple common sense notes or directions may be mentioned in the documented literature (journal articles, books, manuals, etc.), but their impact and significance are rarely realized until they are encountered through hands-on exercises and real-life examples.

Selim Laboratories’ continuing education courses include:

1. QC/QA: This course covers a comprehensive discussion of the basic quality control and quality assurance skills required for implementing various laboratory quality systems. It also includes detailed discussion and comparison of national and international quality systems (e.g. GLPs, GMPs, and ISO 17025), their significance, requirements, and implementation.
2. Abused Drugs: This course provides an up-to-date review of various areas of forensic toxicology and analysis of abused drugs. It is perfectly suited for law enforcement officials and crime evidence personnel who need to maintain an efficient, reliable, and defensible evidence analysis.
3. HPLC/MS: This course covers basic applications of mass spectrometric techniques, including instruction and hands-on experience in the applications of various chromatography and mass spectrometric techniques in research, forensic analysis, mass spectrometric services, environmental toxicology, and pharmaceutical analysis.

Please contact Selim Laboratories for detailed course outlines and schedules of future offerings.

B. Custom-Designed On-site Training and Quality System Development

Continuing education courses are offered as a custom-designed on-site training or as a part of an overall quality system development and implementation program. In doing so, Selim Laboratories ensures total confidentiality as part of your team. Throughout the training process, Selim Laboratories provides integrated training and assessment of your quality systems and performance. The advantages are:

• Significant saving of personnel time.
• Effectiveness. Training material is custom-designed to meet the specific needs of personnel, as well as laboratory work and capabilities.
• Flexibility and convenience. Personnel are trained together or in groups at a flexible schedule without interrupting laboratory activity or creating a backlog of work-load.
• Implementation. Providing examples and hands-on exercises using typical laboratory samples and instrumentation to implement new skills until they become part of daily routines.
• Follow-up support. Developing working relationships for continued support, troubleshooting, problem solving, and performance audits and maintenance.
• Providing QC/QA checks to monitor performance, troubleshoot problems, and help solve problems.