Clinical Chemistry

Clinical Chemistry Home Page

Course leadership

Maximo J. Marin, MD
Joe Wiencek, PhD | Michael Swete, DO

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• Use this form for any course-specific questions, and one of our qualified clinical chemistry faculty will reach out to help you.

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• Enjoy you time learning about clinical chemistry — it’s way more fun than you’d think

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Course Description

Clinical chemistry is an area of laboratory medicine that plays a significant role in the majority of routine and specialized laboratory testing throughout hospitals. Like other areas of laboratory medicine, clinical chemistry testing can be compartmentalized into three basic components: Pre-analysis, analysis, and post-analysis. Pre-analysis deals with factors that impact testing before it reaches the instrument analyzer. The analytical component focuses on the actual testing of the sample. Post-analysis incorporates the processes involved with releasing results and interpretation. Here are some questions and concepts we are going to learn about in the clinical chemistry module:

• Was the specimen collected in the appropriate tube?

• How might transportation of the specimen impact the analyte of interest before it even reached the laboratory staff?

• What are common laboratory methods used to measure enzyme activity?

• What are common interferences that may impact test results?

• Alright enough of that, let’s get started!

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