What is clinical biochemistry?
Clinical biochemistry is an area of biochemistry focused on body chemistry. This is also known several other names, including medical biochemistry, chemical pathology, clinical chemistry and pure blood chemistry. The term clinical biochemistry is preferred in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. The terms clinical chemistry and chemical pathology are used more in the United States. Clinical biochemistry concerns the use of biochemical techniques for diagnosis, treatment and disease study.
Clinical biochemistry is a pathology. Blood banking and transfusion medicine are under the pathology of pathology; Chemical pathology, cytopathology, dermatopathology, forensic pathology, hematology, medical microbiology, molecular genetic pathology, neuropathology and pediatric pathology.
In the hospital, chemical pathology services can be configured differently than subsecialities, but according to one or the other name clinical biochemistry of WBUD between them. For example, the Pathology Services at the University of JHopkins University is blood disorders and special coagulation, clinical chemistry, cytokines, special services of HIV, immunology, medical microbiology, molecular pathology and cytogenetics, neoplastic hematopathology and flow cytometry and transfusion medicine. Hospital Clinical Biochemistry Services provides an individual team. on a bachelor's degree or at a postgraduate level. Standard subtopies include biochemical pathologies; Kinetics of the enzyme; immunochemistry; Lipid, protein and carbohydrate testing; toxicology and drug testing; and tumor marking.
For practicing clinical chemistry in the United States, the US Council for Clinical Chemistry requires certification. Requirements include general qualifications, educational requirements, requirements for professional experience, exam and application and fee payment. One must be "good moral character and high ethical and professional position" except that he has a doctorateor MD from an accredited university or college. If necessary, university work. It is also required five years of full -time experience and two years of post -doctoral education approved by the accreditation commissions in clinical chemistry and one has to pass a comprehensive written exam. For example, clinical biochemists in the UK have a marked career path in the NHS, starting as a trainee and ending with the main biochemist (band 8a).