Labs & Diagnostics I

Catalog description

In this course, students will learn to appropriately select and interpret lab diagnostic testing utilizing laboratory method concepts and incorporate that data into medical decision making. Understand concepts of sensitivity and specificity; variants of normal; pitfalls in interpreting lab results, and identify specific labs diagnostics used in narrowing the differential diagnosis of patients with dermatologic, EENT, and hematologic/oncologic/coagulopathy disease presentations. Basics of radiology will be introduced in this course.