MLT-1130 CLINICAL CHEMISTRY 1

This course introduces the student to the basic principles and practices of clinical chemistry, lab safety and regulations, quality control and statistics, and point of care testing. Clinical correlations and lab procedures for the study of amino acids and proteins, enzymes, vitamins, carbohydrates, and lipids and lipoproteins are studied. Students will learn to prepare solutions, performing common clinical chemistry assays, and organize a laboratory. Quality control and laboratory safety are incorporated into all exercises, and an emphasis is placed on the correlation between laboratory test results with health status and disease.