BIO 446 Management, Education, and Laboratory Information Systems

1 Credit

This integrative seminar examines issues which are related to laboratory management, administration, budgetary controls, personnel evaluation, long-range planning, communication, medical ethics, and problem solving. Education methodology, including establishing goals and objectives and methods of testing and/or measurement of outcomes, is also taught. Laboratory information systems are studied to include topics on operational characteristics and the workflow of a laboratory information system (LIS), data information interchange between computers, and the technology associated with LIS.

Prerequisite(s): BIO 330/BIO 335, BIO 355/BIO 365, BIO 420/BIO 425, BIO 440/BIO 445, BIO 450/BIO 455