[New field for the clinical laboratory].
As for clinical inspections, new developments in response to contemporary needs are required during the current rapid medical reforms. Blood inspections now relate to advanced medical fields (such as transplantation, and regeneration medicine), and high skills in these technologies will be in demand from now on. Because of this, it is important to learn the most advanced life engineering technology and to promote blood transfusion inspection, genetic inspection, and so on to enrich it. In particular, bioinfomatics is the field which should be actively advanced because of the tailor-made medical realization, it requires statistical techniques and genome information control studies. Additionally participation in clinical trials (CRC) becomes possible for the execution of the clinical research. These advances are opening up new opportunities in hospitals not only for business expansion as centers for clinical test inspections but also in medicine manufacture, and food company and related inspections. Furthermore, as information network-making that makes the most of medical information and information technology is developed, along with development of the health science field, it is expected that inspection coordinators who build up the relations with hospitals and the area's medical fields will part in the future medical treatment team. Therefore, the maintenance of an educational environment where these skills can be attained is a pressing need so that it may be developed as a new medical field.
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Department of Laboratory Science, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicines, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507.
D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000639:trends*; D019295:Computational Biology; D004351:Drug Resistance; D006402:Hematologic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans