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Clinical or laboratory  topics covering Haemostasis, flow cytometry, blood morphology.

Delivered by a combination of Clinical  and Senior level  Scientists. 

Suitable for Biomedical scientist doing specialist portfolios, Staff wanting to expand their practical and theoretical knowledge  and Registrar's  doing RCPATH part1 and part 2 exams.

ISO 15189 standards are delivered in clinical context, using  examples to demonstrate requirements effectively. delivered  layman's terms that any grade of staff can participant in.

Fixed courses are either a crash course- 2hours  or an intense course  typically 1 day in duration  (6 hours).

 Topics covered 

Criteria for assay development and validation 

i) Definition of the intended purpose(s)

 ii) Optimisation 

iii) Standardisation

 iv) Repeatability 

v) Analytical sensitivity 

vi) Analytical specificity 

vii) Thresholds (cut-offs) 

viii) Diagnostic sensitivity 

ix) Diagnostic specificity