PRELIM Flashcards
An auxiliary branch of laboratory medicine
Medical technology
A person who engages in the work of medical laboratory
Medical technologist
Depende only on patientspalpation and auscultation
Ancient world
Available only to the upper class
Therapeutic procedures
Methodologies began to diagnose diseases
300 BC
Father of medicine
Writer a book called uroscopy
Hippocrates
The observe if urine attracted ants for diagnosis of diabetes
Greek
Practiced variolation
Chinese
Inhaling powder made from smallpox scabs to develop immunity
Variolation
The developed laboratory tools
Romans
They introduced agadantantra
Indians
Practice of toxicology / study of poisons
Agadantantra
First to describe hematuria
Rufus of Ephesus
Blood in urine
Hematuria
Invented the microscope (9x magnification)
Zaccharias-Janssen
Improved the microscope (90x-270x)
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Used the microscope to investigate the cause of diseases
Athanasius kircher
First to discover cell
Robert hooke
Investigated the embryology of chicks
Marcello malphigi
Developed the gravimetric analysis of urine
Jean baptiste van Helmont
Describe the protein in urine
Frederick dekkers
Performed the first blood transfusion in animals
Richard lower
Describe the process of coagulation
William hewson
Developed the yeast test for sugar
Francis home
Identified sugar in blood and urine
Matthew Dobson
Discovered the great London cholera outbreak
John snow
Viewed medical practices as materialistic and impious studies
Spanish
Discovered malaria and cholera
Americans
First to introduce medical technology in the ph
26th medical infantry of the 6th us army
First clinical laboratory in the ph
Manila public health laboratory
Took over the laboratory when the us army left in June 1994
National department of health
In October 1945 the laboratory was reorganized by who?
Dr. Pio De Roda
Manila CHO who assisted Dr. Pio in the 1st laboratory
Dr. Mariano Icasiano
Offered 6month syllabus for the aspiring laboratory workers
Dra. Prudencia Sta. Ana
Approved a four-year course in BSMT
Bureau of private education
Opened the first school of medtech in the PH in 1954
The Manila sanitarium and hospital
Led the opening of the first school of medtech
Mrs. Willa Hedrick
Affiliated UNIV of the hospital w/c offered medical internship and residency training program
LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY
Absorbed the Manila sanitarium and hospital in 1954
Philippine Union College (Adventist University of the Philippines)
The first graduate of PUC in 1956
Dr. Jesse Umali
RA 5527 date of approval
June 21 1969
Who signed the approval of RA 5527
Former President Ferdinand E. Marcos
Not a graduate of BSMT but passed in civil service under the supervision of a RMT or qualified pathologist
Medical technician
Medtech board examination is given during the month of?
March & August / September
Professional license need to renew every
3 years
Section 20
Oath taking
Unanimous vote of all the three members of the board
Revocation