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Laboratory
Medicine
Course
#: LABMD-853
Title: Laboratory
Medicine
Instructor:
Sally Self, M.D.
Location:
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston,
SC
Number of students:
6
Duration:
4 weeks
Credit hours:
5
Course offered:
Fall, Spring
DescriptionThis comprehensive elective exposes students to the scope, methods, and techniques of laboratory medicine and clinical pathology as they relate to patient care. Students evaluate the use of normal values, choice of test methods, and utilization of statistical materials for determining quality control within laboratories. The students are exposed to the multidisciplinary aspects of modern laboratory medicine. They work with a variety of physicians and doctoral scientists as well as clinical laboratory personnel.
Course Objectives
Instructional Methodology (approximate # of hours per week)
- Evaluate the use of normal values
- Evaluate the use of test methods
- Evaluate the use of statistical methods within laboratories
- Develop and present, to faculty, residents and staff, a case presentation using laboratory data and clinical history
- Expand knowledge of relationship of clinical laboratory to clinical medicine
- Lectures - 4
- Rounds/discussions - 10
- Patient Contact - 1
- Lab - 25
- Patient Load - none
- Call - none