A Virtual Assessment, Training and Evaluation of Clinical Laboratory Technologists Amidst Peak COVID-19 Pandemic – An Observational Study:

Sibtain Ahmed; Muhammad Abbas  Abid; Farhat Jahan; Tomris Ozben

doi:10.5937/jomb0-33962

A Virtual Assessment, Training and Evaluation of Clinical Laboratory Technologists Amidst Peak COVID-19 Pandemic – An Observational Study

Virtual Training of Clinical Laboratory Technologists

Sibtain Ahmed The Aga Khan University
Muhammad Abbas Abid Pathology and laboratory medicine, Aga Khan University
Farhat Jahan Pathology and laboratory medicine, Aga Khan University
Tomris Ozben Department of Medical Biochemistry, Akdeniz University, Antalya

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/jomb0-33962

Keywords: quality control, technologist, Clinical Laboratory, Virtual, Assessment, Training, Google forms, COVID-19

Abstract

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 to keep 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 results of the study show significant improvement in the technologists’ performance after the intervention.

Published

2022/01/27

Issue

Vol. 41 No. 4 (2022): Journal of Medical Biochemistry

Section

Short Communication

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