Projects

Medical Laboratory Community of Practice Is there a need for a Community of Practice in the Medical Laboratory Profession? To answer this question, we need your help and input. A team of researchers and practitioners lead by Brenda Gamble and Lavern Bourne at Ontario Tech University have developed a survey to determine the views on a Medical Laboratory Profession community of practice. The survey was developed based on feedback from a workshop, held in October 2022 and was attended by medical laboratory professional stakeholders from across Canada....

Providing quality health care is a priority in all health care sectors. Interprofessional collaborative practice supports this priority. We at Ontario Tech University have developed micro-credentials to support interprofessional education for Medical Laboratory Professionals. The team needs your help in evaluating the usability and content validity of these virtual micro-credentials. Join This Study Starting April 24, if you are interested in participating in the study, please click on this link: https://uoit....

Key to the delivery of timely, accurate and high-quality laboratory services is the collaboration between patients, primary care physicians, medical laboratory technologists (MLTs) and other health care professionals during the pre- and post-analytical phases of the laboratory process. Errors in the clinical laboratory process are directly related to patient safety. Inaccurate tests results can potentially lead to the delivery of incorrect treatment, delay in correct diagnosis, unnecessary treatment, treatment complications, and additional unnecessary diagnostic testing....