ABSTRACT
IHE Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise RI Reference interval IT Information technology LIS Laboratory information system MLT Medical laboratory technician MRCPath Membership of the Royal College of Pathologists MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging NAACLS National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences NACO National AIDS Control Organization NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance PCA Principal component analysis PCR Polymerase chain reaction PET Positron Emission Tomography PMETB Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board POC Point-of-care RCV Reference change value RFID Radio frequency identication RIS Radiology information system SCP-ECC Standard Communication Protocol for Computerized
Electrocardiography SECQ Spanish Society for Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology SPECT Single Photo Emission Computed Tomography TSCP Taiwan Society of Clinical Pathologists
Education is a comprehensive word, meaning a process where both teaching and learning represent dynamic pieces of an action aimed at shaping the individual nature, by developing natural disposition, character, skills, and professional competencies. In all human societies, education has thus represented, and increasingly represents, an element of utmost strategic importance for either the single person’s or the community’s progress. In managing to satisfy the increasing requests, coming from students on one hand and from the community at large on the other, the institutions devoted to education have progressively assumed a highly complex structure, where innovative teaching approaches are ƒanking the most traditional methods of instruction. In this perspective, education directed at the biomedical sciences and biomedical practices deserves particular attention, for a series of reasons. In the last 10 years, many changes have been introduced in the medical study curricula in the United States as well as European Union countries. Moreover, many
other countries worldwide have proceeded in the same direction, with relevant medical studies reforms. is was due to a series of novel educational subjects mainly related to new professional settings, to the explosion of scientic knowledge and related translational practices and technologies, and to new and improved concepts of medical pedagogy.
