MDLT 2818 Chemistry II

Course Information

Pre/Corequisites

Prerequisite: MDLT 1810 & MDLT 2817 with a grade of C or higher.

Institutional Core Competencies

• Communication - Students will be able to demonstrate appropriate and effective interactions with others to achieve their personal, academic, and professional objectives.
• Critical and Creative Thinking - Students will be able to demonstrate purposeful thinking with the goal of using a creative process for developing and building upon ideas and/or the goal of using a critical process for the analyzing and evaluating of ideas.

Course Competencies

1. Practice laboratory safety.
2. Describe the basic principles of instructor selected clinical chemistry testing methods/techniques used in the clinical chemistry laboratory.
3. Discuss the types of clinical chemistry testing methods/techniques used in the diagnosis of clinical diseases/disorders. This is at the instructor's discretion.
4. Interpret, evaluate, and report patient outcomes using clinical chemistry testing methods/techniques.
5. Demonstrate standard quality assurance practices to ensure quality patient outcomes.
6. Calculate mathematical problems related to methods/techniques found in the clinical chemistry laboratory.
7. Discuss the general role and clinical significance of acid-base balance within the body, including measurement of common acid-base parameters.
8. Discuss the basic anatomy and physiology of the liver, including the major functions of the liver, disorders of the liver, and laboratory assessment of liver function/dysfunction.
9. Discuss the basic anatomy and physiology of the cardiac system, its major disorders, laboratory assessment and common treatments.
10. Discuss the function of the pancreas in the body, major hormones produced, pancreatic disorders, and laboratory testing for pancreatic function.
11. Discuss the physiology of gastrointestinal function, the role of gastric secretion, and the laboratory tests that evaluate both.
12. Discuss the functions of the endocrine system, components comprising the endocrine system, major hormones produced, hormone methodologies, and laboratory correlation of endocrine disorders.
13. Discuss the basic anatomy and physiology of the thyroid, laboratory testing and evaluation of major thyroid hormones, and major disorders of the thyroid.
14. Discuss the function of the parathyroid, endocrine and organ physiology of calcium metabolism, clinical disease states of calcium metabolism, and laboratory testing for clinical disease states of calcium metabolism.
15. Discuss, identify, and define therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) processes, including: TDM terminology, routes of administration, drug administration, drug distribution, drug elimination, specimen collection, pharmacokinetics, and therapeutic drug categories.
16. Discuss, identify, and define the clinical significance and the toxic mechanisms of commonly encountered poisons.
17. Explain the major clinical value of tumor markers.
18. Discuss, identify, define and appraise the biological role of vitamins. Include in the discussion the clinical significance of nutritional assessment.
19. Discuss, identify, define and appraise the clinical significance of the essential trace elements in the body.
20. Discuss the biochemical changes that occur during normal pregnancy and the role of the laboratory in assessing the health of the mother and fetus.
21. Discuss the impact of pediatric and geriatric patients on the clinical laboratory.
22. Discuss automation in the clinical laboratory, including the stages of automated analysis and the critical points of automated analysis where errors are likely to occur.
23. Discuss the use of computers in the clinical laboratory, including the laboratory information system.
24. Discuss point-of-care testing (POCT), including the tests that are typically performed in a POCT laboratory and the pre-analytic, analytic, and post-analytic considerations of POCT.