title: [Undergraduate teaching project on clinical laboratory medicine].
abstract: Undergraduate teaching in clinical laboratory medicine is at the center of contemporary medical education. Students are expected to learn advanced laboratory medicine and basic diagnostic skills such as blood sampling, peripheral blood cell counting, blood typing, cross match test, urinalysis, electrocardiography, and bacteriological examinations through their training program. In our department, we have compulsory lectures, a basic practical training course and an advanced training course for the medical students. The compulsory lectures are programmed for the students in the fourth grade to obtain basic knowledge of clinical laboratory medicine and the patho-physiology of diseases. The teaching staff makes every effort to make their lectures exciting and interesting. As we experienced as medical students in the past, boring lectures give students nothing but a nap. For every senior teaching staff in our school, it is obligatory to be evaluated on their lectures by the students and other teaching staff every year to improve their teaching skills and materials. Teaching materials utilizing personal computers and the Internet are becoming more and more important. The basic practical training course is for the students in the fifth grade. The laboratory technicians help us teach students basic diagnostic skills in this program. The students in the advanced training course have to attend morning conferences in the department, including reverse clinico-pathological conferences and laboratory investigations. The reversed clinico-pathological conferences are popular among the students. Through our training programs, we hope that the students raise many questions that they solve themselves in the future, as well as learning established clinical laboratory medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Integrated Medicine, Division of Clinical and Laboratory Medicine, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita 010-8543.
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kayaba
mesh_terms: D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques; D015510:Clinical Medicine / Q000193:education; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000639:trends*; D007564:Japan; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*