Guidelines

The College produces a number of Guidelines to provide advice to Fellows, Trainees, Employers and the general and medical community on a range of issues.  Click below for the latest Guidelines.

• Admission to Fellowship by Oral Assessment Alone
• Advertising on Pathology Report Forms
• Assessment of Training Programs for Accreditation of RCPA Training:  Process for Assessment of Adequate Staffing Levels
• Autopsy and the Investigation of Scuba Diving Fatalities
• Clinical Privileges Guidelines for Trainees
• Clinical Privileges for Forensic Pathology Trainees
• Consent for Venepuncture
• Design of Research Studies and Abnormal Pathology Test Results
• Educational Activity: Development, Support and Application for an Educational Activity
• Eligibility for Retrospective and Prospective Accreditation of Training
• Guideline Selection of Trainees
• Guidelines for reporting molecular genetic tests to medical practitioners
• Interview of Overseas Trained Specialists
• Joint Training Programs with the RACP
• Medical Appointment panels requiring College input
• Mentoring for Trainees
• NHMRC Guideline for Cervical Cytology Implementation and implications
• Organisations Credentialling Pathologists
• Privacy Principles
• Referral advice on pathology report forms
• Relationship - Fellows and Healthcare Industry
• Release of Results to Patients
• Security requirements for notices sent by email
• Setting up a laboratory
• Specimen Labelling at Point of Collection
• Staffing for mortuaries
• Tendering Issues
• Testing Outside the Normal Pathology Laboratory Request-Test-Report Cycle
• The Pathology Request-Test-Report Cycle (Guidelines for Requesters and Pathology Providers)
• Uncertainty of measurement

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Guidelines for the selection of pathology tests and to facilitate interpretation of results