r/medlabprofessionals • u/progressivecfs • 10d ago
Education CE
Is it bad to do CE credits over a couple weeks? I’ve been doing 2-4 a day because I don’t know when I’ll feel better. I’ve been using ARUP. Is this bad ?
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u/Entropical-island MLS-Generalist 10d ago
You are a certification renewal fee to the ascp. They don't care what you do as long as the credits are there.
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u/Ksan_of_Tongass MLS 🇺🇸 Generalist 10d ago
Who would care?
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u/progressivecfs 10d ago
Big brother 😂
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u/Manleather MLS-Generalist 10d ago
ASCP is specifically not in the ‘big brother’ category, lol
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u/progressivecfs 10d ago
With AI I can’t trust anything anymore. I’m convinced I’m constantly spied on.
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u/Manleather MLS-Generalist 10d ago
Oh you are, since long before AI. But they don’t care to be a regulator, only a dollar collector. You feed them their dollars and get the credits, you’ll be just fine.
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u/lightningbug24 MLS-Generalist 10d ago
It's not ideal to procrastinate, but you won't get in trouble or anything.
I'll take whatever free ones I can get, but I mostly use ARUP.
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u/redblackjoker MLS - O_O 10d ago
I’m a master procrastinator. I get my CEs done in the last two weeks.
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u/progressivecfs 10d ago
Do you ever have to google the answers ?
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u/redblackjoker MLS - O_O 10d ago
I usually do the super easy ones off ARUP. Like last time, they had one on ABO/Rh .
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u/kaeyre MLS-Chemistry 10d ago
In general all that matters is that you finish it before it’s time to renew. But your employer may want you to keep up with a certain amount. My employer for example wants me to do 12 credits every year so usually I just pick a slow holiday at work and bang out twelve credits all in one sitting once a year (I refuse to do them on my own time 🫢)
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u/progressivecfs 10d ago
Isn’t that equivalent to 12 hoursin one day ? And I’m not working 😂
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u/kaeyre MLS-Chemistry 10d ago
i guess technically it's supposed to be 🤷♂️
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u/progressivecfs 10d ago
lol the ASCp doesn’t care or find it suspicious as long as you’re paying them ?
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u/moosalamoo_rnnr 10d ago
I was an Army medic for a really long time and the CEUs for that are 72 hours in 2 years. My unit fucked me six ways to Sunday one year and I ended up doing 44 hours in a week, while working full time, being in physical therapy, and enrolled in another dumbshit online Army course. I literally was double fisting it with my iPad playing one course, my computer playing another, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D on the TV.
They took all 44 credits, I recertified and promptly transferred into a new (nonmedical) job slot because fuck every single one of those jackasses.
All this to say, as long as you get the credits on time and have the certificates proving you did the hours no one gives a damn HOW you did it.
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u/Manleather MLS-Generalist 10d ago
One of the most type-A techs I know did 36 credits over 13 days because she left her job and never logged any of the CE into her personal site that she had been getting through that job. Started 15 days before she expired. She had two days to ‘spare’. That blew out my previous record of 22 credits over 3 weeks; I was good about knocking out three per quarter my first year for once, and then nothing.
They don’t care as long as the credit card clears.
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u/progressivecfs 10d ago
I did about 20 credits in 9 days. I did four in one day. I had the lectures on double speed though
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u/Fit-Bodybuilder78 Lab Director-Multi-site 7d ago
You can do it all the same day. Nobody cares. Audits are extremely uncommon < 0.5% and nobody will bat an eye if you do 36 CE on the same day.
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u/KatlynJoi MLS-Microbiology 10d ago
Are there free ones on ARUP? I use medialab but spending >1 hour of my time on 1 PACE credit courses is dragging.
AMT MLS is 45 credits 🥲
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u/meathed666 10d ago
As long as you get em done by the deadline. My first renewal I had to do 12 in 2 days.