1 – Objective

These programs are not external quality assessment (EQA) programs: they provide staff competence assistance (clinical biologists, medical laboratory technicians, clinical biology residents) for an initial competence assessment, competence maintenance or inter-operator comparability.

ProBioQual provides a complete dossier: digital slide, clinical context and biological results.

Administrators and super-administrators have access to:

• A consensus differential and a proposed set of acceptable limits defined by expert biologists, with an interpretation on an advisory basis.
• An extraction of the results of tested personnel in Excel spreadsheet format.

The medical laboratory remains responsible for authorising its staff: ProBioQual provides its expertise on an advisory basis and leaves the choice of competence assessment criteria to the laboratory.

2 – Control material

Digital slides: sourced directly from the laboratories of the expert biologists of the program.

3 – Program cycle

1 - Slides made available — ProBioQual makes digital slides available with clinical context and biological results open year-round.

2 - Staff identification — Each staff member identifies themselves by name at login to access the digital slides. One registration allows up to 15 different users to be assessed.

3 - Download of results — Administrators and super-administrators download a summary spreadsheet: individual results for each staff member tested, expected results and interpretation guidance.