Comprehensive Colposcopy Course

Comprehensive Colposcopy Course

Is this educational activity right for me?

This evidence-based course is designed for the beginning/intermediate colposcopist. It will also benefit clinicians needing updated information about the newly published Updated Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines, the Updated National Consensus Guidelines for Management of Women with Abnormal Cervical Cancer Screening Tests and Cancer Precursors, and new concepts about HPV screening and triage, treatment methods, and HPV epidemiology. This course is designed to improve competencies in medical knowledge, practice-based learning, patient outcomes, and/or systems-based practice. The participant should be a licensed physician or advanced practice clinician with an advanced clinical degree from an accredited institution and who makes gynecologic diagnosis and management decisions.

Educational Objectives

Upon completion of this educational activity, participants should be able to:

• Describe the anatomy, cytology, histology, and colposcopic findings of the normal and abnormal cervix, vagina, and vulva (medical knowledge);
• Elicit and document an appropriate history including risk factors for lower genital tract neoplasia (medical knowledge, practice-based learning);
• Define the pathophysiology of lower genital tract neoplasia, including the role of oncogenic HPV in preinvasive and invasive diseases of the cervix, vagina, and vulva (medical knowledge);
• Define the Bethesda System of cervicovaginal terminology (medical knowledge);
• Apply new standards for cervical cancer screening, including HPV testing (systems-based practice);
• Describe the prevention of cervical neoplasia and genital warts using prophylactic HPV vaccines (medical knowledge);
• Discuss the challenges of colposcopy and management of cervical neoplasia for selected patient populations such as adolescents, women infected with HIV, underserved women, and pregnant women (medical knowledge, practice-based learning, patient outcomes)
• Perform appropriate cytologic sampling, colposcopic evaluation, and biopsies (including endocervical sampling), and become familiar with instrumentation and necessary supplies (practice-based learning);
• Recognize the diagnostic characteristics of cervical abnormalities (low-grade and high-grade cervical lesions as well as adenocarcinoma in-situ and cervical cancer) on cytologic, colposcopic, and histologic exam (practice-based learning);
• Interpret and correlate cytologic, colposcopic, and histologic results (practice-based learning);
• Formulate a plan of care for the management of women with Pap test abnormalities according to the most recent ASCCP Consensus Guidelines, the ASCUS/LSIL Triage Study (ALTS), and other evidence-based guidelines (practice-based learning, systems-based practice, patient outcomes);
• Describe, but not perform, treatment options to include cryosurgery and electrosurgical loop excision procedure (LEEP) of the cervix (practice-based learning);
• Summarize and explain the diagnosis and management of vulvar and vaginal neoplasia (medical knowledge, practice-based learning); and,
• Provide appropriate patient education and support (medical knowledge, interpersonal and communication skills).

Continuing Medical Education (CME) 

ACCME Accreditation Statement
ASCCP is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide medical education for physicians. 

Credit Designation Statement
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM  ASCCP designates this live activity for a maximum of 22.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Disclosures

The faculty, committee members, and staff who are in position to control the content of this activity are required to disclose to ASCCP any financial relationship(s) that have occurred within the prior 24 months with any ineligible companies. Financial relationships are defined as remuneration in any amount from ineligible companies in the form of grants, research support, consulting fees, salary, ownership interest (eg, stocks, stock options, or ownership interest excluding diversified mutual funds), honoraria or other payments for participation in speakers’ bureaus, advisory boards, or boards of directors, or other financial benefits. The intent of this disclosure is not to prevent individuals with financial relationships from planning or delivering content, but rather to provide learners with information that allows them to make their own judgments of whether these financial relationships may have influenced the educational activity with regard to exposition or conclusion. ASCCP has reviewed all disclosures and mitigated all relevant financial relationships that have been identified.

The following person(s) disclosed financial relationships:

• N/A

The following person(s) disclosed no financial relationships: 

• Rebecca Compton, DNP, FNP-BC, MBA
• Stacia Crochet, MD
• Susan A., Davis, MD, FACOG
• Tri Dinh, MD
• Julie Kaplan, MD
• Kerry Curtis – Staff
• Liesl Robinson – Staff  
• Joe Pymm - Staff
• Nicole Ratner - Staff
• Diane Catalano - Staff

Faculty

Rebekah Compton, DNP, FNP-BC, MBA 
Chief Clinical Officer, UPG
Co-Medical Director, UVA Family Medicine Primary Care Center Clinic
UVA Family Medicine Clinic

Stacia M. Crochet, MD
Emory University 
Atlanta, GA 

Susan A. Davis, MD, FACOG 
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Emory University Hospital Midtown
Atlanta, GA 

Tri A. Dinh, MD 
Mayo Clinic Florida
Jacksonville, FL 

Julie Kaplan, MD
Medical Director of OBGYN at Comprehensive Family Care Center
Director, Acting Internships and Electives in OBGYN
Associate Director, Medical Student Clerkship in OBGYN
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health 
Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, NY 

Program

Subject to Change

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

6:30 AM – 8:00 AM
Registration                                                                                  

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
Continental Breakfast/Visit Exhibits

8:00 AM – 8:10 AM
Welcome and Introductions of Faculty                                                                                   

8:10 AM – 8:40 AM
The Normal Cervix: Cytology, Colposcopy, and Histology                                                         

8:40 AM – 9:15 AM
Epidemiology of HPV and Cervical Cancer                                              

9:15 AM – 10:15 AM
Cervical Cancer Screening: New Approaches                                                           

10:15 AM – 10:30 AM
Break/Visit Exhibits

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
The Evolution of Lower Genital Tract Terminology

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Establishing U.S. Standards for Colposcopy Terminology and Practice

11:30 AM – 11:50 AM
Questions & Answers

11:50 AM – 12:50 PM
Lunch (provided)

12:50 PM – 1:25 PM
Colposcopy: Equipment and Supplies

1:25 PM – 2:05 PM
Colposcopy: The Procedure

2:05 PM – 2:50 PM
HPV Vaccines

2:50 PM – 3:15 PM
Break/Visit Exhibits

3:15 PM – 3:30 PM
Questions & Answers                   

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM           

• Breakout session A:  Gallery of Images:  The Normal Cervix, Squamous Metaplasia, and Transformation Zone
• Breakout session B: Gallery of Images II: The Normal Cervix, Squamous Metaplasia, and Transformation Zone
• Breakout Session C: Hands-On: "How to Focus"

Thursday, October 23, 2025

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM          
Continental Breakfast/Visit Exhibits

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM          
ASCCP Membership & the Colposcopy Education Program

8:15 AM - 8:50 AM          
Colposcopy of the Abnormal Transformation Zone

8:50 AM - 9:45 AM          
ASC-US/LSIL/CIN1: Cytology, Colposcopy, and Histology with Case Stuides and ASCCP 2019 Risk-Based Management Consensus Guidelines

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM        
Questions & Answers

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM      
Break/Visit Exhibits

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM      
HSIL/CIN2, 3: Cytology, Colposcopy, and Histology with Case Studies and ASCCP 2019 Risk-Based Management Consensus Guidelines

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM      
Lunch (on own)

12:45 PM - 1:15 PM        
Assessment of Cervical Lesions: Determining Where to Biopsy

1:15 PM - 1:45 PM           
Case Studies Using the ASCCP Risk-Based Management Consensus Guidelines

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM           
Questions & Answers

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM           
Break/Visit Exhibits

2:45 PM - 5:00 PM           

• Breakout session A: Interactive Case Discussion and Slide Identification
• Breakout session B:  Selecting Where to Biopsy
• Breakout Session C:  Condyloma, LSIL, HSIL and Cancer

Friday, October 24, 2025

7:00 AM - 7:45 AM          
Continental Breakfast/Visit Exhibits

7:45 AM - 8:45 AM          
Warning Signs of Cervical Cancer: Colposcopy and Management of Microinvasive and Squamous Cell Carcinoma

8:45 AM - 9:15 AM
Questions & Answers

9:15 AM - 10:00 AM          
Glandular Lesions: Cytology, Colposcopy, and Histology with Case Studies and ASCCP 2013 Management Guidelines

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM      
Break/Visit Exhibits

10:30 AM - 11:15 AM      
Cervical Treatment: Indications, Ablative and Excisional Techniques and Outcomes     

11:15 AM - 11:45 AM      
Adolescents and Young Women: A Unique Population

11:45 PM - 1:00 PM        
Lunch (provided)

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM           
Cervical Cancer Risk & Prevention for Immunocompromised Populations

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM           
Colposcopy in Pregnancy

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM           
Questions & Answers

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM           
Break

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM           
Risk Based Management Consensus Guidelines – Module #1

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM           

• Workshop A: Colposcopes, Cervical Biopsy, ECC and Instrumentation
• Workshop B: LEEP of the Cervix
• Workshop C: Module #2: Problem Based Learning – Cases for Residents

Saturday, October 25, 2025

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM          
Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM          
Management of Pre-Malignant and Malignant Diseases of the Vagina

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM          
Benign Conditions of the Vulva and Condylom

9:15 AM - 10:00 AM          
Management of Neoplastic Diseases of the Vulva: VIN and Vulvar Cancer

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM          
Break

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM        
Questions & Answers

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM      
Putting it All Together

11:00 AM
Adjourn

Emory Conference Center Hotel

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Cancellation Policy: Written cancellation must be received at least 30 days prior to the start of the course. Any notice received by this time will be refunded, less a $100.00 administrative fee. No refunds will be made after this time.

Registration is non-transferable.

PLEASE READ these important registration notices:

1. By registering and purchasing access to this live, in-person, face-to-face event, you are agreeing to ASCCP's COVID-19 And Any Other Communicable Or Infectious Disease: Liability Waiver.
   
   
2. A few days before the course, you will receive an email with links to the course program and the slide decks. Please download any documents you need before coming on-site (wifi in the hotel is typically not strong enough to download these large files). If you prefer print, please print your hardcopies and bring them with you.
   
   
3. Food Allergies and Vegetarian Requirements: Please email meetings@asccp.org with your request at least two weeks before the start of the course. Any requests made after this date may not be able to be accommodated. No requests will be accepted on site.

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