History medical technology (united states)

Question 1

• established the first chemical laboratory at the university of Michigan and
  pioneered laboratory instruction.

Answer 1

Dr. Douglass

Question 2

established another laboratory at Bellevue hospital medical
college
● Gave the first laboratory course in pathology offered in an american medical school
● The first professor of pathology at john Hopkins university in 1885

Answer 2

Dr. William H. Welch (1878)

Question 3

• a clinical laboratory was opened at the university of pennsylvania’s william pepper
  laboratory of clinical medicine

Answer 3

1895

Question 4

opened the first clinical laboratory at john hopkins hospital- routine
examinations were carried out, special attention being given to the search for malaria parasites in
blood.

Answer 4

Dr. William Osler (1896)

Question 5

called for the development of a method that would certify medical
technologists on a national scale
● Published the Demand for and Training of laboratory technicians

Answer 5

John Kolmer (1918)

Question 6

a law requiring all hospitals/institutions to have a
fully equipped laboratory: fit for routine testing and employs full-time lab technician

Answer 6

State Legislature of pennsylvania (1918)

Question 7

• directed the clinical laboratories
  ● Consists of 4 to 5 sections:
  1. clinical pathology
  2. bacteriology/microbiology
  3. radiology

Answer 7

Chief physician

Question 8

The growth of the clinical laboratory
● Produced a great demand for technicians
● Practicing physicians with the knowledge of the laboratory work began to teach their assistants to
do some of the tests for them.

Answer 8

WORLD WAR 1

Question 9

The university of minnesota first to offer a course bulletin entitled “Courses in medical
technology for clinical laboratory technicians”
● The first school offer a degree level program believe to be in 1923
● The american society for clinical pathology (ASCP) was founded:
1. cooperation between physicians and clinical pathologists
2. Serology
3. Maintaining the status of clinical pathologists
4. Code of ethics for technicians and technologists was established

Answer 9

1992

Question 10

● Marked effect on laboratory medicine
● Use of blood increased and the closed system of blood collection was widely adopted
● Instrumentation advancement- these instruments paved for the measurement of the intensity of
color produced
● Automation and quality control programs became common
● Laboratory medicine certainly moved into an era of sophistication
● There is a certain local progression of the growth of the clinical health
● The first portion to develop was pathology which was followed in order by clinical microscopy
(urinalysis)
● Some studies of blood cells, physiological chemistry, and bacteriology

Answer 10

(1939-1945)