| This module will be complementary with Professional training being undertaken. Good laboratory practice skills, laboratory safety, healthcare economics, management principles and practice, ethics and professionalism, health & safety policies, risk assessment. Professional Practice & Quality Control and Quality Assurance: Method evaluation and quality assurance. Analytical goals. Analytical performance. Clinical relevance of laboratory procedures. The predictive value of laboratory tests. Appropriate and optimal use of the laboratory. Goals and objectives. Test selection for monitoring disease. Characteristics of analytical methods. Setting quality goals for analytical performance. Recommendations for quality goals. Selecting an analytical method. Evaluating an analytical method. Control of pre-analytical variables. Control of analytical quality using stable control materials. Performance characteristics of a control procedure. Levey-Jennings control chart. Shewhart mean and range control charts. Control of analytical quality using patient data. Role of external quality assurance procedures. Identifying sources of analytical errors. Biomedical Skills and Public Health: application of biomedical skills to design and manage screening programmes. |
Administrative assistant: RAINA FERHANA HOSSENBUX
Telephone: 4037400
Email: r.hossenbux@uom.ac.mu |
