Clinical Hematology I

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Prerequisites: Admission into the Cleveland Clinic School of Medical Laboratory Sciences clinical training program. Corequisites: All Session II courses must be taken concurrently. Lectures cover the production, function and morphology of red blood cells, discussion of the diagnostic features of hematologic disorders and principles of laboratory tests employed in their diagnosis. The course also covers specimen collection, manual and automated enumeration and identification of red blood cells and performance of diagnostic test procedures. Laboratory work will give the student hands-on experience with instrumentation and manual methods to assist with the understanding of troubleshooting, quality control and result interpretation.