Biochemia Medica, Vol. 21 No. 1, 2011.
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Laboratory medicine education in Lithuania
Zita Ausrele Kucinskiene
; Department of Physiology, Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Jonas Bartlingas
; Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius, Lithuania
Abstract
In Lithuania there are two types of specialists working in medical laboratories and having a university degree: laboratory medicine physicians and medical biologists. Both types of specialists are officially being recognized and regulated by the Ministry of Health of Lithuania.
Laboratory medicine physicians become specialists in laboratory medicine after an accredited 4-year multidisciplinary residency study program in Laboratory Medicine. The residency program curriculum for laboratory medicine physicians is presented. On December 9, 2009 the Equivalence of Standards for medical specialists was accepted and Lithuanian medical specialists in Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine can now apply for EC4 registration.
Medical biologists become specialists in laboratory medicine after an accredited 2-year master degree multidisciplinary study program in Medical Biology, consisting of 80 credits.
Various postgraduate advanced training courses for the continuous education of specialists in laboratory medicine were first introduced in 1966. Today it covers 1-2-week courses in different subs-pecialties of laboratory medicine. They are obligatory for laboratory medicine physicians for the renewal of their license. It is not compulsory for medical biologists to participate in these courses.
The Centre of Laboratory Diagnostics represents a place for the synthesis and application of the basic sciences, the performance of research in various fields of laboratory medicine, as well as performan-ce of thousands of procedures daily and provision of specific teaching programs.
Keywords
laboratory medicine; medical biology; education of specialists
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15.2.2011.
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