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44 - MDC - Medical Sciences and Clinical Research
MDC 140 - Medical Lab Design and Operations Optimization
Code | Start Date | Duration | Venue | |
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MDC 140 | 11 November 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
MDC 140 | 09 December 2024 | 5 Days | Istanbul | Registration Form Link |
Course Description
The main objective and approach of both the Lab and beneficiaries within the market should be creating added values in quality, commercialization and innovation. With faster and more accurate diagnoses, faster recovery of patients and shortened hospital stay are expected. This way the users of health care laboratories are satisfied with the quality of laboratory service and their expectations are met by the laboratory performance. To achieve this, certain aspects should be taken into consideration. Layout design of the lab, its equipment, services, organization, and quality are all topics discussed in this course.
Course Objectives
- Improving specimen processing
- Optimizing space allocation
- Encouraging healthy work environments
- Reviewing the management process for improving the quality of all aspects of laboratory operations
- Summarizing ways of laboratory quality assessment
Who Should Attend?
- Nurses
- Laboratory Personnel
- Junior and Senior Technologists
- Supervisory Personnel
- Laboratory Administrators
- Administrative Directors
- Quality Managers
Course Details/Schedule
Day 1
- Introduction to the concept of internationally accredited laboratory
- Designing clinical labs
- Premises and equipment for a medical laboratory
- Open-plan designs
- Automated testing
- Key operating principles
- Organization of staff and management
- Service delivery strategy
- Biosafety level
- Molecular testing
- Long-term success
- Automated testing systems and lab efficiency
Day 2
- Sample reception & processing
- Opening the package and inspection of the sample
- Sample identity confirmation
- Verification of the analysis request form
- Sample integrity
- Laboratory records
- Storage conditions
- Laboratory sample tracking
- Possible problems causing sample rejection
- Retention and disposal
Day 3
- Quality standards in health laboratories
- Quality management models in healthcare
- Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
- International organization for standardization
- Perceived dimensions of quality
- Development and implementation of standards
- Conceptual framework of implementation
- Measuring healthcare quality
Day 4
- Total Quality Management (TQM) of the Laboratory
- Phases of TQM
- Planning and design for quality
- Quality management system design
- Total Quality Management (TQM) Models
- Quality management tools
Day 5
- Essential requirements for successful implementation of TQM
- Implementation strategies
- Managing organizational change
- Implementing TQM and the management of change
- Sustaining continuous improvement
- Drinking water quality tests
- Test formats
- What should your water be tested for?
- Taking required samples
- Interpreting results