The National Credentialing Agency for Laboratory Personnel (NCA) was a professional association for medical laboratory professionals.
It was founded 1978 by members of American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science to enable members of the medical laboratory profession to control the certification process.[1][2] It was previously known by the full acronym NACMLP.
In 2009, NCA was acquired by American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) to form a single certifying agency, the ASCP Board of Certification.[3][4][5] People who had an NCA certification were transferred to the Board of Certification, without needing to sit any additional examinations.[6]
^Morris, Susan (January 2010). "Unification of the NCA and the ASCP Board of Registry". American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science. 23 (1): 2–4. doi:10.29074/ascls.23.1.2. PMID20218088.
^Ramsey, Glenn; Anderson, Christina E. (2024). "Regulatory issues in laboratory medicine". Clinical laboratory management (Third ed.). Hoboken, NJ : Washington, DC: Wiley ; ASM Press. p. 33. ISBN9781683673934. Retrieved September 19, 2024.
