History of Medical Technology Flashcards
A health care professional who plays a key role in the modern laboratory – performs various clinical, laboratory procedures that helps the physicians to diagnose, monitor, and treat a certain human condition.
Medical technologist
A healthcare professional who performs diagnostic analytic tests on body fluids such as blood, urine, sputum, stool, cerebrospinal fluid
(CSF), peritoneal fluid, pericardial fluid, and synovial fluid, as well as other specimens.
Medical technologist
Application of principles.
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Heinemann
Performance of laboratory procedures.
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Heinemann
Performance of Laboratory determinations and analyses.
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Anne Fagelson
Maintenance of health.
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Anne Fagelson
An auxiliary branch of laboratory medicine which deals with the examinations by various chemical, microscopic, bacteriologic and other medical laboratory procedures or technique.
Medical technology
A duly registered physician who is specially trained in methods of medicine, or the gross examination of tissues, and function of human body to diagnose certain disease.
Pathologist
A person who engages in the work of medical technology under the supervision of a pathologist, and a graduate of bachelor in medical technology who passed the board exam. Also regarded as the “living clinical eye”.
Medical technologist
A person who is a graduate of bachelor of medtech but failed to passed the board exam.
Medical technician
Greek physician Hippocrates the father of scientific medicine, adopt the triad of regimen, in treating diseases and infections with the use of drugs, surgery, and bloodletting.
[bc]
460 BC
Vivian Herrick shown the incidence of intestinal parasitic infection caused by Ascaris lumbricoides and Taena species.
[bc]
1550 BC
A book that describes the treatment of diseases and the three stages hookworm infection.
Ebers Papyrus
An Arabian physician, proved that scabies are caused by parasites.
Anenzoa
What period when urinalysis became a fashion of practice?
Medieval period ((1098-1438)
Anna Fagelson strongly confirmed the beginnings of medtech when she correlated that the cause of death by Alexander Gilani, a laboratory worker in the university of bologna, was due to laboratory-acquired infection.
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14th century
Anton Van Leuwenhoek invented the first functional crude microscope. First scientist to observe and describe the appearance of red blood cell.
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17th century
He invented the first functional crude microscope.
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Father of pathology and histology.
Marcelo Malphigi
She strongly confirmed the beginnings of medtech when she correlated that the cause of death by Alexander Gilani, a laboratory worker in the university of bologna, was due to laboratory-acquired infection.
Anna Fagelson
Father of microscopic pathology.
Rudolf Virchow
The first scientist to emphasized the study of manifestation of diseases and infections.
Rudolf Virchow
He was the first to utilize the microscope in examining specimen at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Calvin Ellis
He used lab findings as preliminary evidence in diagnosing and evaluating disease.
Dr. Willa Occam
APOTHECARIES ACT of 1815 was initiated by ?
Baron Karl von Humbledt
He performed first quantitative test for urine sugar.
Herman Fehling
The first chemical laboratory related to medicine was established at what university?
University of Michigan
He established another laboratory at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He gave the first laboratory course in Pathology ever offered in an American Medical School.
Dr. William Welch
He became the “first professor of pathology” at the John Hopkins University.
Dr. Welch
The “first pathologist” of the John Hopkins Hospital Department of Pathology.
Dr. Simon Flexner
He wrote the book “A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis”. It was retitled “Clinical Diagnosis by Laboratory Methods” in its 6th edition by Dr. Todd and Dr. Arthur Sanford. This book became the standard reference for laboratories.
Dr. James C. Todd
One of the first school to trained laboratory workers.
University of Minnesota 1922
First to offer a degree level program.
University of Minnesota 1923
United States required a 2 year collegiate education and a twelve-month actual training in the laboratory for the preparation of its practice.
[year]
1940
Standard curriculum was formalized in preparation for a Bachelor of Science degree.
[1940]
1950
The US Army established the first Clinical laboratory at?
Quiricada Sta. Cruz Manila
Laboratory (MPHL) offered training program to high school graduates.
[date]
February 1944
[2] Offered the first B.S. degree course in Medical Technology.
Philippine Union College and Manila Sanitarium
The first graduate of B.S. MedTech from PUC; now OB-Gynecologist in the USA. He is also the owner of the Omega Laboratory at Vito Cruz, Manila.
Dr. Jesse Umali
She started to offer the medical technology course.
Mrs. Willa Herrick
They offered Medical Technology as an elective subject to 4th and 5th year B.S. Pharmacy students.
(UST Faculty of Pharmacy)
Dr. Antonio Gabriel and Dr. Gustavo U. Reyes
He decided to offer Med.Tech. as a course at UST.
Rev. Fr. Lorenzo Rodriguez
Issuance of permit for the internship program.
[date]
June 1960
A year where Our Lady of Fatima University- offer the course Medical technology.
2000
Full recognition of the 4- year B.S. Medical Technology course.
[date]
June 14, 1961
