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ajlm-220	Makokha, Ernest P.; Mwalili, Samuel; Basiye, Frank L.; Zeh, Clement; Emonyi, Wilfred I.; Langat, Raphael; Luman, Elizabeth T.; Mwangi, Jane	Using standard and institutional mentorship models to implement SLMTA in Kenya	2014		.htm	text/html	4933	240	40	SLMTA laboratories In May 2010, the first four-day SLMTA workshop was conducted for representatives from each of the laboratories. These developments built the foundation for laboratory quality system improvements and enabled the country to roll out the Strengthening Laboratory Management Toward Accreditation (SLMTA) programme in April 2010, nine months after its launch in Kigali, Rwanda in 2009.3 Since the launch of SLMTA, observational studies have suggested that the mentorship component, especially when aligned to laboratory accreditation goals and overall plans of the Ministry of Health (MOH), provides substantial impact on laboratory quality improvement.9 SLMTA mentorship approaches have ranged from standard short-term visits10,11 to newer models of peer or embedded mentoring.11,12 In the standard short-term model, a mentor visits the mentee laboratory and stays in the laboratory for a short stint, often a week or less.	cache/ajlm-220.htm	txt/ajlm-220.txt