The latest issue of eJIFCC

Dear members,

The new edition of eJIFCC (2017, Vol 28, no 4) can be found here. eJIFCC is an on-line journal that comes out four times a year to review original articles, posters, case studies and reviews according to the needs of clinical laboratories in the world. The journal publishes IFCC's news, letters, review of books, discussions and educational material to help develop clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine around the world.

Public Information and Public Relations Committee

Survey of EFLM working group on Congresses and Postgraduate Education

Dear Colleague,

We would like to invite you as member of CSMB to participate in the EFLM Working Group on Congresses and Postgraduate Education (WG-CPE) survey related to the on the MedTech Europe Code of Ethical Business Practice, which prescribes high standards for participation of IVD industry in Third Party Organized Educational Events in terms of charitable donations, educational grants, scholarships and fellowships.

The survey aims to investigate the previous and current practice in terms of cooperation between professionals or professional societies and IVD industry, as well as the future plans under incorporation of the MedTech Europe Code.

The invited Health Care Laboratory Professionals and/or Academic Professionals are kindly asked to provide some basic information about their experience and opinion about future practice IVD industry financial support of Third Party Organized Events.

We kindly ask you to fill the questionnaire (only 5 min) until February 18th, 2018.

Thank you for your cooperation!

Evgenija Homsak
Chair EFLM Working Group Congresses and Postgraduate Education

New issue „EuroLabNews“

Dear All,

I am pleased to send you the sixth issue of "EuroLabNews", the bi-monthly newsletter of EFLM. You can download the issue here.

In this issue:

President's Season Greetings
10th EFLM Anniversary
Hot Topics in Laboratory Medicine
- Patient safety and laboratory related errors
EFLM events
- Announcement of the 2nd EFLM Strategic Conference
- EFLM-AACB Test Evaluation Course 2018
Updates on EFLM Publications list
News from National Societies
News about EFLM National Societies
Calendar of EFLM events and events under EFLM auspices

Happy Holiday Season!

Harjit Pal Bhattoa
EFLM Newsletter Editor

9th Congress of Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics with international participation, May 09.-12. 2018, Zagreb

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to annouced preliminary programme of 9th Congress of the Croatian society of medical biochemistry and laboratory medicine with international participation on link: http://kongreszagreb2018.hdmblm.hr/index.php/hr/program/znanstveni-program.

It is a great pleasure to introduce a number of world and national experts who have accepted our call and will share with us the most recent expert knowledge important for the development of laboratory diagnostics of the 21st century.

We inform you that congress registration is open through online pages until May 08, 2018. More about the registration can be found at the link: http://kongreszagreb2018.hdmblm.hr/index.php/hr/registracija.

We also remind you that the posting summary is open until January 15, 2018. You can sign up for the summaries using the link:
http://kongreszagreb2018.hdmblm.hr/index.php/hr/prijava-sazetaka

Read more about the congress, the city of Zagreb, the scientific program and the organization on the congress website: http://kongreszagreb2018.hdmblm.hr/index.php/hr/.

Share your impressions and suggestions with us via social network on Facebook. (https://web.facebook.com/kongresZagreb2018).

We look forward to welcoming you in Zagreb,

Organizing committee