Medical Laboratory Academy · MINC-ML-001
Laboratory Biosafety, Specimen Management and Core Practice
A forty-unit laboratory practice module covering professional organisation, risk assessment, PPE, patient and specimen identification, collection, transport, waste, exposure response and pre-analytical improvement.
40 CPD credit hours · 40 one-hour units · 2400 minutes · UGX 200,000 in total
Module aim
Strengthen risk based laboratory practice that protects patients, workers and communities while preserving specimen integrity and result reliability across constrained services.
What you will be able to do
- Organise laboratory work through current procedures, competent staff, maintained equipment and accountable records.
- Conduct activity-specific biosafety risk assessment and select controls using the control hierarchy.
- Select and use PPE as part of a complete risk-control system.
- Maintain correct patient and specimen identity through collection, packaging, transport and receipt.
- Respond to exposure and improve pre-analytical quality through measurement, corrective action and closed-loop communication.
Units
- Professional conduct and laboratory organisation: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Professional conduct and laboratory organisation: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Professional conduct and laboratory organisation: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Professional conduct and laboratory organisation: case-based practice in resourcelimited settings (60 min)
- Professional conduct and laboratory organisation: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Biosafety risk assessment: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Biosafety risk assessment: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Biosafety risk assessment: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Biosafety risk assessment: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Biosafety risk assessment: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Personal protective equipment: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Personal protective equipment: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Personal protective equipment: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Personal protective equipment: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Personal protective equipment: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Specimen request and patient identification: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Specimen request and patient identification: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Specimen request and patient identification: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Specimen request and patient identification: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Specimen request and patient identification: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Specimen collection principles: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Specimen collection principles: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Specimen collection principles: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Specimen collection principles: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Specimen collection principles: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Packaging, transport and referral: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Packaging, transport and referral: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Packaging, transport and referral: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Packaging, transport and referral: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Packaging, transport and referral: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Waste management and exposure response: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Waste management and exposure response: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Waste management and exposure response: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Waste management and exposure response: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Waste management and exposure response: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
- Pre-analytical quality improvement: foundations, purpose and professional scope (60 min)
- Pre-analytical quality improvement: assessment, standards and practical tools (60 min)
- Pre-analytical quality improvement: applied decisions, procedures and safeguards (60 min)
- Pre-analytical quality improvement: case-based practice in resource-limited settings (60 min)
- Pre-analytical quality improvement: documentation, reflection and quality improvement (60 min)
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