Report of the Third Conference on Education in Clinical Chemistry (Meeting Report) (Conference Notes‪)‬

The Third Conference on Education in Clinical Chemistry was organized by the Board of Directors of the Commission on Accreditation in Clinical Chemistry (COMACC) and was held at the Sheraton Gateway Suites, O'Hare Airport in Chicago, IL, on September 29-October 1, 1995. (3) The two previous conferences had been held in Columbus, OH, in 1973 [1] and Chicago, IL, in 1975 [2]; the 1975 conference had 75 attendees representing 50 institutions. The Third Conference was cosponsored by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC), the American Board of Clinical Chemistry (ABCC), and the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry. Directors of postdoctoral training programs from each COMACC-accredited program were invited to attend, as were Jay McDonald, University of Alabama at Birmingham, who provided the keynote address, and guest speakers representing clinical chemistry opportunities within industry. A total of 30 program directors and guest speakers were present, representing all but 2 of the 19 postdoctoral programs accredited by COMACC at the time. A current listing of COMACC-approved graduate and postdoctoral programs in clinical chemistry is included in Table 1.