Comprehensive Colposcopy Course – Online and On-Demand

This online course was recorded in April 2025, following a series of substantive updates and revisions to its content and materials.

Important information about Comprehensive Colposcopy Online

• All work including claiming CME is due by the course end date with NO EXCEPTIONS.
  The nature of our system does not allow for extensions. All lectures are on-demand so you may view the lectures at your own pace. Note, however, the course end date. All lectures must be viewed, CME claimed, and materials downloaded by the course end date. We plan to offer (4) cohorts per year. Sign up for a timeframe that is right for your schedule.
• This material is didactic.
  There is no hands-on component.

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 Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines, 2019 ASCCP Risk-Based Management Consensus Guidelines for 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.

Continuing Medical Education (CME)

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, people living with HIV, underserved communities, and pregnant people (medical knowledge, practice-based learning, patient outcomes).
• Describe 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 patients with cervical cancer screening results using current evidence-based guidelines.
• Describe, but not perform, treatment options including cryotherapy, thermal ablation, and  electrosurgical loop excision procedure (LEEP) of the cervix.
• Summarize and explain the diagnosis and management of vulvar and vaginal neoplasia (medical knowledge, practice-based learning).
• Provide appropriate patient education and support (medical knowledge, interpersonal and communication skills).

This course is designed to support clinicians in building core competencies of colposcopy and anogenital disease related management. This knowledge- based course does not provide clinical skills credentialing. Completion of this course will not prepare participants for independent clinical practice.  Clinical training and performance required for credentialing is per each participant’s home institution policy.  There are currently no national training guidelines or certifications specifically for colposcopy, either through ASCCP or any other organization.

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

Credit Designation Statement 
The ASCCP designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 21 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Information 

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:

• Christine Conageski, MD – Content Reviewer
• Simone Cox, BSN, MSN, NP, RN, WHNP – Faculty
• Laura Fry, MD – Faculty
• Melissa Gee, MD – Faculty
• E.J. Mayeaux, Jr, MD – Content Reviewer
• Susan Park, MD, MPH – Faculty
• Alan G. Waxman, MD, MPH – Faculty, Content Reviewer
• Diane Catalano – Staff
• Kerry Curtis – Staff
• Connor Hendrix – Staff
• Robert Pulley – Staff
• Joseph Pymm – Staff
• Nicole Ratner – Staff
• Liesl Robinson – Staff

Program Directors

Simone Cox, BSN, MSN, NP, RN, WHNP
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

Laura Fry, MD
Amoskeag Health
Manchester, NH

Melissa Gee, MD
Associate Clinical Professor
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
Mid Valley Comprehensive Health Center
Van Nuys, CA

Susan Park, MD, MPH
Harbor UCLA
Torrance, CA

Alan G. Waxman, MD, MPH
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Albuquerque, NM

Pricing

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Important information about Comprehensive Colposcopy Online.

• We plan to offer (4) cohorts per year. Sign up for timeframe that is right for your schedule.
• All work is due by the course end date with no exceptions. 
  The nature of our system does not allow for extensions. All lectures are on-demand so you may view the lectures at your own pace. Note, however, the course end date. All lectures must be viewed, CME claimed, and materials downloaded by the course end date.
• This material is didactic. 
  There is no hands-on component.
  

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.

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Program

01. The Normal Cervix: Cytology, Colposcopy, and Histolog

02. Epidemiology of HPV and Cervical Cancer

03. Cervical Cancer Screening: New Approaches

04. The Evolution of Lower Genital Tract Terminology

05. Establishing U.S. Standards for Colposcopy Terminology and Practice

06. Colposcopy: Equipment and Supplies

06a. Questions & Answers

07. Colposcopy: The Procedure

08. HPV Vaccines

09. Colposcopy of the Abnormal Transformation Zone

09.1a. Gallery of Images: The Normal Cervix, Squamous Metaplasia, and Transformation Zone

09.2b. Gallery of Images II: The Normal Cervix, Squamous Metaplasia, and Transformation Zone

10. ASC-US/LSIL/CIN1: Cytology, Colposcopy, and Histology with Case Studies and ASCCP 2019 Risk-Based Management Consensus Guidelines

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

11a. Questions & Answers

12. Assessment of Cervical Lesions: Determining Where to Biopsy

13. Case Studies Using the ASCCP Risk-Based Management Consensus Guidelines

14. Adolescents and Young Women: A Unique Population

15. Warning Signs of Cervical Cancer: Colposcopy and Management of Microinvasive and Squamous Cell Carcinoma

15a. Questions & Answers

15.1. Interactive Case Discussion and Slide Identification

15.2a. Selecting where to Biopsy I

15.2b. Selecting where to Biopsy II

15.2c. Selecting where to Biopsy III

15.3. Condyloma, LSIL, HSIL and Cancer

16. Glandular Lesions: Cytology, Colposcopy, and Histology with Case Studies and ASCCP 2019 Management Guidelines

17. Cervical Treatment: Indications, Ablative and Excisional Techniques and Outcomes

18. Risk Based Management Consensus Guidelines-Module 1

18a. Questions & Answers

18.1c. Module #2: Problem Based Learning: Cases for Residents

19. Cervical Cancer Risk and Prevention for Immunocompromised Populations

20. Colposcopy in Pregnancy

21. Management of Pre-Malignant and Malignant Diseases of the Vagina

22. Benign Conditions of the Vulva and Condyloma

23. Management of Neoplastic Diseases of the Vulva: VIN and Vulvar Cancer

24. Putting It All Together/Q&A

24a. Q&A from Putting it All Together