MTLE

• PAMET CODE OF ETHICS

  • Integrity
  • Commitment
  • Excellence
  • Unity
  • Professionalism
• CODE OF ETHICS

  • Reliability
  • Honest
  • Integrity
• Hector Gentapanan Gayares Jr.

  • composer of the PAMET Hymn lyrics
• Francis Jerota Pefanco

  • Pamet Hymn music
• Code of Ethics First line:

  • I shall accept the responsibilities inherent to being a professional...
• Pre-analytical

  • most critical phase in drug testing in which specimen collection and identification is concerned
• Meaning of 'A' in RACE

  • ALARM
  • Rescue, Alarm, Contain/Confine, Extinguish
• RA 9288

  • Newborn Screening Act of 2004
  • new added disease: MSUD
• G6PD Deficiency

  • most common disease in RA 9288
• Newborn Screening is done

  • 24 hours after birth/ within 3 days
• Guthrie Test is a newborn screening blood test for Phenylketonuria (PKU).
• T-test

  • the difference between the means. directly related to ACCURACY
• F-TEST

  • the ratio of variance (SD^2) of two samples. Directly related to the PRECISION.
• DIRECT COST

  • expenses that can easily be traced to an end product.
• SOFTWARE

  • set of instruction written in a special computer language that tells the computer how to operate and manipulate data.
• HARDWARE

  • these computer components are the physical pieces of the equipment like the monitor.
• Organizing/Leadership

  • a Chief MT DIRECTS her laboratory staff on their work.
• Blood Banks are classified according to Service Capability.
• Blood Banks are inspected Yearly/Annually.
• License to Operate (LTO)

  -needed to operate a Clinical Laboratory
• Pathologist

  • Head of Clinical Laboratory
• In places like rural areas with no assigned pathologist, a MT shall be supervised by Licensed Physician.
• SIMULATION

  • designs model to imitate real-life conditions so the different intervention scenarios can be computed.
• Probability Analysis

  • measures risk by assigning value, expressed in percentage to the like hood of a specific event occuring.
• Crossmatching can be done on secondary and tertiary laboratory.
• Tertiary Laboratory

  • type of lab capable of performing culture and sensitivity
• RA 4688 = Clinical Laboratory Law
• RA 9288 = Newborn Screening Act
• RA 8981 = PRC MODERNIZATION ACT OF 2000
• E.O No. 266 = Continuing Professional Education (CPE)
• Unprofessional & grossly negligent MT

  • MT disregards the lab protocol in reporting lab result
• The board of MT is composed of:

  1. 1 Pathologist
  2. 2 RMTs
• Term of board of examiners

  • 3 years
• Removal of Board members

  • President of the Philippines
• If there's a violation, it should be reported to Ethics Committee of the PAMET.
• Number of votes for Suspension: 2/3 votes
• Number of votes for Revocation: 3/3 votes (unanimous)
• PRC consists of:

  1. 1 Chairperson
  2. 2 Commissioners
• PRC resolution 323

  • Foreign Reciprocity
• An individual who graduated BSMT and passed the MT licensure exam is called Medical Technologist.