Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Code:

OPT82

Acronym:

PCML

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2020/2021 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Departamento de Biomedicina
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master in Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIMED	36	Mestrado Integrado em Medicina- Plano oficial 2013 (Reforma Curricular)	4	-	3	28	81

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

To be able to value the importance of the right laboratory test to each individual patient according to its own particular situation and the phase of the disease, knowing also the main causes of analytical variability and developing critical reasoning in relation to the data coming from the clinical laboratory.

Learning outcomes and competences

The student will be expected to develop the following skills:

1. Knowledge of the value of Clinical Patgology
2. Problem solving
3. Test selection in common conditions
4. Valorization of pre-analytics
5. Venous blood collection for haematology and chemistry tests.
6. Routine urinalysis, including chemical screening and sediment examination.
7. Elementar peripherial blood cell analysis

Working method

Presencial

Program

01. Introduction to Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
02. The value of lab tests and their good use
03. Biomarkers- meaning and value (natriuretic peptides and markers of muscle disease)
04. The Clinical Pathology of infectious diseases
05. The role of the clinical laboratory in infection control and epidemic control
06. Molecular biology tests in the clinical laboratory
07. The interest and role of point of care testing
08. Peripherial blood cell analysis
09. Automatic blood cell couters
10. Test repetion- concepts and rules
11. Clinical case- diabetes
12. Clinical case- dispnea and cough
13. Clinical case- osteoporosis

Mandatory literature

Richard A. McPherson, MD, MSc and Matthew R. Pincus, MD, PhD ; Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods, 23rd Edition , Elsevier, 2017. ISBN: 978-0-323-29568-0

Complementary Bibliography

Mary A. Williamson MT(ASCP) PhD and L. Michael Snyder MD; Wallach's Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests , Wolters Kluwer, 2011. ISBN: 978-1605476674

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures- 2 h per week.
Practice of phlebotomies.
Lab activities rotations- 6h per semester.
Total of 28 to 30 h of attending sessions per student.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Teste	80,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	53,00
Frequência das aulas	28,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Presence in at least 75% of sessions

Calculation formula of final grade

NF = [(test) x 0,8] + [participation (in lectures and ativities)] x 0,2