MLS ASCP Renewal: Time of Your Recertification
Do you know how to make your MLS ASCP renewal process successful?
Is the MLS (ASCP) certificate only valid for 3 years?
What is the meaning of MLS ASCP CMP?
Why is my credential only MLS ASCP, not MLS ASCP CM?
If you want to know the answers to all these questions, stick with us on this page; we will clear all one by one.
MLS ASCP Renewal: What is it?
The MLS ASCP renewal is also called the ASCP MLS recertification process and the MLS ASCP CMP process.
When you get your MLS ASCP score report, your certificate expiration date is highlighted on it.
You are liable to update your license before its expiration date.
For this purpose, you have to participate in the MLS ASCP renewal.
MLS ASCP Renewal: Why is It Vital?
The mission of the ASCP BOC (American Society for Clinical Pathology Board of Certification) is to offer the best cure to patients.
Therefore, it awards its certification to the most relevant lab professionals who prove his/her experience and knowledge by passing its challenging exam.
But your MLS ASCP journey is not till the completion of the certificate-getting process.
ASCP BOC sticks with you through its MLS ASCP renewal process, which updates your certificate for the next three years by introducing you to the latest technologies in your field.
In this way, you remain up to date with your field and ASCP completes its mission to provide treatment to patients in the latest ways by advancing the professionals’ skills with MLS ASCP renewal.
Why am I MLS ASCP, not MLS ASCP CM?
The certificate only with MLS ASCP, demonstrates that the license has not passed through its recertification process.
But if the certificate is described as MLS (ASCP) CM, it means it has maintained its renewal process successfully by participating in the CMP (Credential Maintenance Program).
MLS (ASCP) Renewal: Eligibility Requirements
To make your MLS ASCP CMP successful, you have to earn 36 points in your active years of practice.
CE points and their distribution
For four subjects, including chemistry, blood banking, hematology, and microbiology, you have to achieve 8 points: 2 points for each.
26 points in lab management, lab specialty, education, molecular diagnostics, or other lab work.
In medical ethics, you need to acquire one point.
1 point must be obtained for lab or patient safety.
MLS ASCP Renewal Process: Application Fees
The application fee for the MLS ASCP CMP is $100 if you send your declaration before the expiration date of your certificate.
Make sure to send your declaration at least three months prior to your expiration date.
But, if your certificate has expired due to any reason, you have to pay the fee for the expired credential with your CMP application fee, which is $135.
MLS (ASCP) Renewal Points: How to Earn?
The ASCP Board of Certification allows you to achieve your CMP point in two ways: from the ASCP website and from non-ASCP CE providers.
The CE points that you will earn from the ASCP BOC platform will automatically be entered into your ASCP transcript but the points from non-ASCP CE providers, you need to insert manually.
Abdelhalim Elshawadfy is an ASCP certified Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS ASCP), Specialist in Microbiology (SM ASCP), and Molecular Biology Technologist (MB ASCP) with a distinguished career marked by expertise, continuous learning, and a commitment to elevating the standards of clinical laboratory science. As an ASCP Certification Expert and American Board Certification Expert, Abdelhalim Elshawadfy continues to make invaluable contributions to the field, leaving a lasting impact on the medical community.
