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The organisation of an educational program for specialists in clinical chemistry by the Greek Society of Clinical Chemistry-Clinical Biochemistry

Demetrios Rizos orcid.org/0000-0003-2143-3377 ; Hormone Laboratory, “Aretaieion” Hospital, Athens, Greece
Photini Karababa ; Certification body TUV Hellas, Athens, Greece
Angeliki Sarandakou ; Hormone Laboratory, “Aretaieion” Hospital, Athens, Greece
Othon Panagiotakis ; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, “Evangelismos” General Hospital, Athens, Greece
Alexander Haliassos ; Greek External Quality Assessment Scheme (ESEAP), Athens, Greece
Konstantinos Makris ; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, “KAT” General Hospital, Kifissia, Greece
Katerina Psarra ; Department of Immunology- Histocompatibility, “Evangelismos” General Hospital, Athens, Greece
Eleni Bairaktari ; Laboratory of Clinical Chemistry, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
Panagiota Spyropoulou ; Blood Bank, “Tzaneion” General Hospital, Piraeus, Greece
Chara Nikolou ; Research Center for the Certification of Biological Material (EKEVYL), Athens, Greece
Nikolaos Galiatsatos ; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, “Hippocrateio” Hospital, Athens, Greece
Nikolaos Trakas ; Department of Clinical Chemistry, “Sismanoglio” General Hospital, Athens, Greece
Angeliki Ferderigou ; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, “Agios Savvas” Hospital, Athens, Greece
Konstantin Seferiadis ; Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

Sažetak

In Greece, there is no officially organized training in clinical chemistry for scientists. The Greek Society of Clinical Chemistry-Clinical Biochemistry decided to organize an intensive educational prog-ram of 18 seminars on clinical chemistry content as it is described in the EC4 Syllabus.
The duration of each seminar was about 6 hours and consisted of 6 to 9 lectures. At the end of each seminar there was a voluntary written examination, comprised of 24 multiple choice questions. Suc-cessful completion of the Educational program was leading to a Certificate of Competence.
Two cycles of the 18 seminars were performed: 1st cycle from October 2003 to December 2005 and 2nd cycle from March 2005 to October 2007. One hundred eighty nine colleagues was the mean at-tendance per seminar for the seminars of the 1st cycle and 38 colleagues for the seminars of the 2nd cycle. The mean participation to the examination for each seminar was almost 80% for the 1st cycle and 68% for the 2nd cycle. More than 80% of the participants performed Good or Very good in the examination in both cycles.
It is estimated that more than 40% of the scientists who practice Clinical Chemistry in Greece, partici-pated to this educational activity. This program is now provided as an e-learning application, and it is open for all scientists who want to follow the discipline of clinical chemistry.

Ključne riječi

clinical chemistry; education; Register; EC4

Hrčak ID:

64495

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/64495

Datum izdavanja:

15.2.2011.

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