Introduction to Lab Diagnostics

Overview

Are you a healthcare professional wanting to develop your understanding of pathology diagnostic principles? Would you like to gain a broader insight into the future direction of pathology diagnostics in the NHS?
Join us to explore this and more in this introductory taster session. Whether you have no knowledge of what pathology diagnostics are or interact with them on a day-to-day basis, this course provides a foundation for lab diagnostic principles.

Learning Objectives

• Describe what diagnostic tests are and their impact on healthcare
• Differentiate how the role of diagnostics changes along a patient’s life
• Discover how pathology diagnostics may change in line with the ‘3 shifts of healthcare’ and how this may relate to their own area of practice
• Explain the advantages and limitations of screening tools
• Identify how specificity, sensitivity, accuracy, and precision relate to diagnostic tests
• Summarise the lab cycle, their role within it and how this relates to sampling and reporting errors.