Anonymous comment?

If you have something to say, it's worth standing behind your words. I can't imagine why you'd not want to put your name to your comments. It sure makes it a whole lot easier to respond if I know to whom I am responding.

I have every reason to believe that the comments concerning MLTs being trained up to be PAs, and the minimum requirement for CAPA membership being a BSc have come from a personal acquaintance of mine from Alberta. This person has expressed concern (justifiably) about the fact that the CAPA will be a small club indeed if MLTs are excluded. I agree (and I have expressed this to the executive committee of the CAPA). As I have told this acquaintance, there will be a grand-mother-/father-ing process wherein those who have been practising PAs for years will be creditted with their valuable years of experience. This will reflect the American experience wherein PAs (many of whom, like many of you, are Histotechs trained up to be PAs) are given credit for their many valuable years of experience and may, with a Pathologist's endorsement, be granted membership to the CAPA.

I don't want it to sound like an eletist group. We want to include as many PAs as possible and we look forward to having a coast-to-coast-to-coast association that has as many Canadian PAs as posisible in the group.