Revised 08/2022

MDL 276 - Clinical Hematology Techniques (3 CR.)

Course Description

Stresses performing hematological and coagulation methods and operation of typical instrumentation in a clinical laboratory or simulated laboratory setting. Clinical 9 hours per week.

General Course Purpose

This course will give the student the opportunity to perform the hematological techniques learned in MDL 127 in an accredited clinical setting.

Course Prerequisites/Corequisites

• Students must be enrolled in the first-year summer semester of the Medical Laboratory Technology AAS program or receive program director approval.
• Prerequisites: MDL 125 and MDL 225 with a grade of “C” or better.

Course Objectives

Upon completing the course, the student will be able to:

• Receive and process specimens for hematology analysis.
• Demonstrate safe operation of routine hematology analyzers including routine start-up, reagent preparation, and basic preventive maintenance.
• Apply the principles of quality assurance to the analysis and evaluation of hematology results.
• Correlate hematology results with representative disease states.
• Record and communicate results clearly and accurately.
• Demonstrate personal characteristics which are consistent with those of a desirable employee in the clinical chemistry laboratory.
• Compare manual peripheral slide evaluation with instrument parameters
• Perform manual hematology procedures
• Perform basic coagulation procedures.

Major Topics to Be Included

• Hematology/Coagulation procedures Specimen processing
• Quality control/assurance
• Routine operation and daily maintenance of automated equipment Supervised evaluation and reporting of results