Welcome to the Challenges in Cytology Application.

The New South Wales (NSW) Cervical Screening Program has been funded jointly by the Australian and NSW State Governments to reduce the burden of death and ill health attributed to cervical cancer in women in NSW, Australia. It does this by promoting increased participation in cervical screening and the provision of quality services for women in the taking and reading of Pap tests and in the follow up of screen detected abnormalities.

Optimising pathology laboratories' contribution to cervical screening is a key objective of the NSW Cervical Screening Program. To this end it works in partnership with cytology laboratories and cyto-professionals to develop initiatives to support quality improvement in laboratory performance. This educational program aimed at improving recognition of difficult high grade lesions is one such initiative.

The NSW Cervical Screening Program has taken advantage of the rapid growth in the use of the Internet, which underpins the emergence of the Information Economy to develop a series of Cytology E-Learning modules to assist laboratory professionals enhance their learning experience in the area of recognising difficult high grade lesions.

The NSW Cervical Screening Program welcomes you to this innovative E-Learning approach to recognising difficult high grade cervical cytology lesions. We hope you find it rewarding.