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The Need for Laboratory Medicine in the Undergraduate Medical Education Curriculum: A White Paper from the Association of Pathology Chairs.

R J Christian, J Baccon, B Knollmann-Ritschel, K Elliott, M Laposata, R M Conran

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Article in Medical science educator, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

R J ChristianDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road, L-113 Portland, OR USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7291-8097
J BacconDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Akron Children's Hospital, Akron, OH USA.
B Knollmann-RitschelDepartment of Pathology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD USA.
K ElliottDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT USA.
M LaposataDepartment of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX USA.
R M ConranDepartment of Pathology and Anatomy, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Considering laboratory results are used to make medical decisions, a fundamental understanding of laboratory medicine is paramount to enhance patient care, optimize health care cost containment, and prevent legal repercussions. With increasing laboratory testing complexity, this education is needed now more than ever. This article is a call to action to have medical schools adequately incorporate practical laboratory medicine content into their undergraduate medical education (UME) curricula. The authors discuss the definition of laboratory medicine, what it encompasses, who uses it and why it matters, and propose that a core laboratory medicine curriculum is a necessary part of UME.

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Clinical pathologyLaboratory medicineMedical studentUndergraduate medical education

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PMID38510385
PMCPMC10948729

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