COURSE OVERVIEW

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops.
Medical laboratory services are essential to patient care and therefore have to be available to meet the needs of all patients and the clinical personnel responsible for the care of those patients. Such services include arrangements for requisition, patient preparation, patient identification, collection of samples, transportation, storage, processing and examination of clinical samples, together with subsequent validation, interpretation, reporting and advice, in addition to the considerations of safety and ethics in medical laboratory work.
The “core business” of the clinical laboratory is the production of reliable test results. The development of automation and the availability of ready-to-use test kits for most of the analytes may induce the wrong idea that high quality results can be easily produced. This is not true and a considerable effort must be dedicated to the control of the analytical aspects in order to provide to the clinicians results useful for the patient’s care.