BMED380 Introduction to Quality Management and Accreditation.doc

1. LEBANESE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
COURSESYLLABUS:
BMED380 INTRODUCTION TO QUALITYCONTROL AND ACCREDITATION (2.0 credits)
Campus andSemester
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Schedule
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COURSEDESCRIPTION
This course introduce the concept of Accreditation as certification of competency, authority, or credibility its
necessity to ensure safety, efficacy and good standards in health care systems. It focuses on laboratories’
accreditation as continuous process and emphasizes quality control strategies and improvement plans as well.
COUSREOBJECTIVES
At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
Understand the accreditation process and its basic requirements
Design an improvement plan according to the lab capacities
Prepare necessary documentation for accrediation
Analyse and proceed to resolve workers and customers problems
Deal with quality control profile in all basic medical laboartory sections.
PRE-REQUISTE
MEDL399, Co-requisite: BMED390.
ATTENDENCE
The course is run in lecture and discussion mode. Attendance sheet will be signed by every student at the beginning
of each lecture. Class attendance to the lectures is crucial. Absence should be reported to the student affairs.
Excused absence for more than 6 teaching hours grants an ‘AW’ in the course. Hence no unexcused absence is
allowed.
TUTORIAL SESSIONS
Unscheduled tutorial date, time and venue will be announced in advance.
EXAMINATION
The course will have 2 in-course exams and a final in-class examination.
GRADING
The final grade will be based using the following weights:
Class Performance 5%
In-course exams 50%
Final Exam 45%
Total 100%
The final letter grade will be determined from the total points scored from the assignments and examinations after
rounding up to the nearest integer value. LIU letter grade systemwill be followed without exceptions.
Make-up examinations may be granted only in cases of documented inability to attend. Student is responsible to
submit the inability to attend excuse not latter than one week from the exam. The excuse has to be submitted to the
Student affairs office. Valid reasons will be considered at the instructor's discretion. These cases should be
communicated to the instructor in advance.
TEXT BOOKS:

2. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Using Performance Improvement Tools in Health
Care Settings, Third Edition. Oakbrook Terrace, IL: JCAHO, 2006.
ISO 15189:2003 Medical laboratories, Particular requirements for quality and competence. Geneva, Switzerland:
International Organization for Standardization, 2003.
Handouts
SCHEDULEOF CLASSES
Class Date Topic Assignment
Week One Concept of quality control and accreditation and their goals,
patient safety, international accreditation agencies: JCIA,
MOH, ISO, CAP.
Week Two The Lebanese national accreditation systemfor laboratories.
Week Three The Lebanese national accreditation systemfor blood bank.
Week Four Laboratories staff qualification & Education (competency
testing, educational plans, verification of credentials,
orientation, cross training.
Week Five Accreditation and Certification.
The American college of pathologists’ norms of laboratory
quality control
Week Six Quality control .
ExamI
Week Seven Practice control by Policy & procedures (importance & plotting)
Week Eight Quality improvement plan.
Week Nine Quality improvement tools and applications.
Week Ten Inspection techniques (environmental rounds, self assessment,
mock surveys, real surveys)
Week Eleven performance management system ExamII
Week Twelve Laboratory accreditation and other standard overviews.
(multidisciplinary approach, Contingencies plans )
Week Thirteen Patient safety, (patient identification, labelling...)
Week Fourteen Results reporting and documentation
Week Fifteen Tutorial and revision
DISCLAIMER: Changes may be performedto the above syllabus without any prior notification.
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