Medical Laboratory Management
Subject Overview
Medical Laboratory Management is the program's open elective on running a clinical laboratory professionally — ethical principles, Good Laboratory Practice and accreditation, safety awareness (including HIV/Hepatitis B&C exposure guidelines and drug-resistant TB), patient sample management from collection through reporting, quality management systems, biomedical waste management, instrument calibration and validation, laboratory information systems, and laboratory audit. A 4-credit open elective theory paper.
Unit-wise Syllabus
3 units — click WhatsApp below to get the full notes for each
Unit 1: Ethics, GLP and safety
Ethical principles and standards for clinical laboratory professionals (duty to patient, colleagues, society), Good Laboratory Practice and accreditation — aims, advantages and national/international accrediting agencies, general safety precautions, HIV and Hepatitis B/C pre- and post-exposure guidelines, drug-resistant tuberculosis
Unit 2: Sample and results management
Patient management for sample collection, transportation and preservation; sample accountability; factors affecting sample analysis; reporting results — test report format, reference ranges, clinical alerts, abnormal results, turnaround time, referral lab results, report alteration
Unit 3: Quality management, calibration and audit
Quality management systems — quality assurance and control, internal and external QC; biomedical waste management; calibration and validation of clinical laboratory instruments; laboratory information systems and financial management; ethics across the pre-examination, examination, reporting and records-access stages; laboratory audit — types, frequency, responsibility and documentation