Curricula Descriptions
Office Laboratory Medicine
Laboratory testing in the physician's office improves efficiency and quality of patient care because test results can be available at the time the patient is seen. Laboratory technology has produced systems that are reliable, simple to use and inexpensive.
Laboratory Rotation Elective Experience
| Goals: |
- Gain an understanding of laboratory requirements
- Gain certification required laboratory training in a high complexity lab. as a complex CLIA lab director
- Improve skills with in office microscopy
- Appreciate the roll of lab staff as a member of your medical team
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| Objectives: |
- Appreciate the regulatory requirements necessary to run an office lab and the certification process. (MK, SBP)
- Understand CLIA 88. (MK)
- Understand basic laboratory terminology, test menu and complexity. (MK)
- Become competent at office microscopy (PC, MK, PBL)
- Learn lab documentation including policy, procedures, quality control, proficiency testing and quality assurance (MK, SBP)
- Know the name and use for each piece of lab equipment (PC, MK)
- Complete the CLIA required hours of laboratory experience, equivalent to 20 CME credits (as required by CLIA for lab directors of a moderate complexity lab). (PBL, MK, Prof)
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| Rotation Mechanics |
| Meet with the QFM lab manager. They will provide you with necessary materials. Satisfactory completion of this rotation is determined by
the QFM lab manager. |
| Grading Scale: |
- Does not meet expectations
- Meets expectations
- Exceeds expectations
- Complete the hours required by CLIA for laboratory experience
- Understands CLIA 88
- Able to identify and knows the use of each piece of lab equipment
- Understands basic lab terminology, test menu, and complexity
- Technical skills with office microscopy
- Promptness reliability and integrity
- Demonstrates respect to lab team members
- Overall attendance
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| Resources |
- Stepp CA, Woods MA. Laboratory procedures for medical office personnel. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1998.
- Davis BG, Mass D, Bishop ML. Principles of clinical laboratory utilization and consultation. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1999.
- Jacobs DS. Laboratory test handbook. Hudson: Lexi-Comp, 1996.
- COLA. A voluntary education and accreditation program for physicians' office laboratories. 9881 Broken Land Parkway, Columbia, Md 21046. E-mail: info@COLA.org; Web site: http://www.cola.org
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Regulations for implementing Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988: a summary. JAMA 1992;267:1725-7,1731-4.
- AAFP-PT site for POLs: http://www.aafp.org/pt
- CLIA-related publications from the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations: http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/dls/clia/chronol.asp
- Bloodborne pathogens regulations: http://www.osha-slc.gov/SLTC/bloodbornepathogens/index.html
- HCFA's page on the CLIA program: http://www.hcfa.gov/medicaid/clia/cliahome.htm
- Online CME for the POL: http://www.vh.org/Providers/CME/CLIA/CLIAHP.html
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Last updated: 10/07/08
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