A single inaccurate laboratory result can send a doctor down the wrong treatment path entirely, because blood, urine and hormone analyses are usually the deciding factor in how a patient's condition is diagnosed and treated. When a lab's numbers cannot be trusted, every decision built on them is at risk too.

This is why quality control is the backbone of any medical laboratory, not an optional add-on. This training course by the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy equips laboratory owners and analysts with the internal and external quality control practices needed to produce accurate, consistent results and to act as a genuine first line of defence against the spread of infectious disease.

Course Objectives:

• Strengthen quality assurance and quality control programmes and extend them across all medical laboratories.
• Reach accurate diagnoses and eliminate conflicting results between different laboratories.
• Raise the operational efficiency of laboratory performance day to day.
• Apply total quality management rules within a laboratory setting.
• Plan quality processes and evaluate quality performance on an ongoing basis.
• Connect quality practices with laboratory information technology systems.

Target Audience:

• Laboratory owners among doctors and pharmacists across all analytical disciplines.
• Laboratory technicians and quality control staff.
• Anyone connected, closely or remotely, to public health and diagnostic accuracy.

Module 1: What Makes a Laboratory Result Trustworthy

• The concept and types of laboratory medical tests.
• Why quality is the deciding factor in laboratory reliability.

Module 2: Internal Quality Control in Practice

• Setting up and running internal quality control procedures.
• Detecting and correcting deviations before they affect results.

Module 3: External Quality Control and Benchmarking

• External quality control schemes and inter-laboratory comparison.
• Using external results to validate internal performance.

Module 4: Planning and Evaluating Quality Performance

• Quality planning across the laboratory workflow.
• Methods for evaluating quality performance on a continuous basis.

Module 5: Quality and Laboratory Information Technology

• The relationship between quality management and laboratory IT systems.
• Using data systems to reduce human error and speed up reporting.