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Virtual assessment, training, and evaluation of clinical laboratory technologists amidst peak Covid-19 pandemic: An observational study

Medical technologists are considered a neglected group when it comes to academic interventions. We developed and implemented an educational intervention and assessment for the technologists based on an online questionnaire as a pre-test consisting of questions related to knowledge (n=5), attitude (n...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, Sibtain, Abbas, Abid Muhammad, Jahan, Farhat, Ozben, Tomris
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Society of Medical Biochemists of Serbia, Belgrade 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9618329/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36381081
http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/jomb0-33962
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description Medical technologists are considered a neglected group when it comes to academic interventions. We developed and implemented an educational intervention and assessment for the technologists based on an online questionnaire as a pre-test consisting of questions related to knowledge (n=5), attitude (n=3), and practices (n=4) of daily internal quality control (QC) monitoring via Google Docs survey tool. This study served multiple purposes. It allowed keeping the technologists engaged during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic while also improving the knowledge, attitude, and practices about the internal quality control using Bio-Rad Unity Real Time (URT) QC software. Subjects were graded based on the scores they received out of 100 (0-60 = poor; 61-79 = good; 80-100 = excellent). Training materials, i.e., a set of 5 videos every week via e-mail, were circulated. A voice-over PowerPoint presentation was also shared for easy comprehension. This activity was repeated after one month. A post-test was administered to assess the improvement. The study results show significant improvement in the technologists' performance after the intervention.
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spelling pubmed-96183292022-11-14 Virtual assessment, training, and evaluation of clinical laboratory technologists amidst peak Covid-19 pandemic: An observational study Ahmed, Sibtain Abbas, Abid Muhammad Jahan, Farhat Ozben, Tomris J Med Biochem Original Paper Medical technologists are considered a neglected group when it comes to academic interventions. We developed and implemented an educational intervention and assessment for the technologists based on an online questionnaire as a pre-test consisting of questions related to knowledge (n=5), attitude (n=3), and practices (n=4) of daily internal quality control (QC) monitoring via Google Docs survey tool. This study served multiple purposes. It allowed keeping the technologists engaged during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic while also improving the knowledge, attitude, and practices about the internal quality control using Bio-Rad Unity Real Time (URT) QC software. Subjects were graded based on the scores they received out of 100 (0-60 = poor; 61-79 = good; 80-100 = excellent). Training materials, i.e., a set of 5 videos every week via e-mail, were circulated. A voice-over PowerPoint presentation was also shared for easy comprehension. This activity was repeated after one month. A post-test was administered to assess the improvement. The study results show significant improvement in the technologists' performance after the intervention. Society of Medical Biochemists of Serbia, Belgrade 2022-10-15 2022-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9618329/ /pubmed/36381081 http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/jomb0-33962 Text en 2022 Sibtain Ahmed, Abid Muhammad Abbas, Farhat Jahan, Tomris Ozben, published by CEON/CEES https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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