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Offered in the Fall semester, Mon/Wed, 11:15am-12:05pm

INSTRUCTORS: Donald Lehman, MS, MT(ASCP) and Mary Ann McLane, PhD, MLS

PURPOSE:  This course provides introductory concepts and principles related to the study of Clinical Chemistry. Topics to be covered include making reagent solutions and using those solutions in spectrophotometric analyses, and evaluating the quality assurance of those analyses by statistical means. A significant portion of this class is also devoted to introductory statistics, with an emphasis on how statistics are used in clinical laboratory science. This course also introduces laboratory information systems, and the role of research in the clinical laboratory.

COMPETENCIES: Upon completion of this course, the student will achieve:

• a thorough knowledge of descriptive and inferential statistics.
• a theoretical basis for the use of statistics in clinical laboratory science.
• facility in the use of medical terminology
• a thorough knowledge of the safety requirements for a clinical chemistry laboratory.
• problem solving skills in performing calculations for clinical assays.
• an appreciation of the need for a quality assurance program in the clinical chemsitry laboratory.
• a theoretical basis for the use of general laboratory resources covered in this course.

The final grade for the course is derived from the following numerical scale:
 > 94% ......... A               77-79%......... C+
 90-93%......... A-             74-76%......... C
 87-89%......... B+            70-73%......... C-
 84-86%......... B              65-69%......... D
 80-83%......... B-            < 64% ........... F

This course is a major one in the curriculum and must be passed with a grade of C- or better.

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