BIO 555 Advanced Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory

1 Credit

An examination of technical concepts and skills utilized to ensure quality in the medical laboratory. The course will focus on enhancing quality control analysis and method validation skills, and utilizing statistical tools to monitor and improve quality testing processes in the medical laboratory. The quantitative and qualitative procedures used in this clinical laboratory emphasize the principles of analysis, recognition of normal ranges, handling of patient data, quality control management, principles of spectrophotometry, fluorometry, potentiometry, discrete analysis, electrophoresis, and chromatography.

Prerequisite(s): Baccalaureate degree with appropriate pre-requisite courses.