UNIT 1: OVERVIEW OF THE MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY/MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE PROFESSION

Question 1

“Application of the principles of natural, physical, and
biological sciences to the performance of laboratory
procedures which aid in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.”

Answer 1

Ruth Heinemann

Question 2

“…A branch of medicine concerned with the performance
of laboratory determinations and analyses used in the
diagnosis and treatment of disease and the maintenance
of health.”

Answer 2

Anne Fagelson

Question 3

An auxiliary branch of laboratory medicine which deals
with the examination of tissues, secretion, and excretion
of the human body and body fluids by various electronic
chemicals, microscopic, and other medical laboratory
procedures or techniques either manual or automated
which will aid the physician in the diagnosis, study and
treatment of disease and in the promotion of health in
general.”

Answer 3

RA5527

Question 4

“Clinical laboratory science/laboratory medicine”

Answer 4

Medical Technology

Question 5

the application of diagnostic, preventive, and
therapeutic medicine to monitor and improve the
management of health condition

Answer 5

medical technology

Question 6

It is a facility that performs chemical and microscopic
examinations of various body fluids. (such as urine,
amniotic fluids, etc.)

Answer 6

clinical laboratory

Question 7

This is where the practice of medical technology is done
in general

Answer 7

clinical laboratory

Question 8

examples of body fluids tested inside the laboratory

Answer 8

urine, feces, seminal

Question 9

what is common between performing laboratory procedures (samples) and diagnosis and treatment (disease)

Answer 9

analysis (results)

Question 10

director in the laboratory / licensed
medical doctor, licensed physician, specializes in
PATHOLOGY, head/director of clinical laboratory

Answer 10

pathologists

Question 11

medical detectives, individual
that is certified / graduate of MedTech and board by
CHED and PRC (Professional Regulation
Commission)

Answer 11

medical technologists

Question 12

assistant, certified by PRC to
log specimens, prepare samples, run various tests
under supervision of MT or PATH

Answer 12

medical technician

Question 13

Father of Medicine (name, year)

Answer 13

Hippocrates, 400 BC

Question 14

Hippocrates described

Answer 14

four humors as body fluids

Question 15

4 humors or body fluids according to hippocrates

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blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile

Question 16

hippocrates emphasized the __ & __ for disease

Answer 16

environmental causes and natural treatment

Question 17

the oldest laboratory procedure

Answer 17

urinalysis

Question 18

who recorded the sweet taste of diabetic urine
as well as polyuria in diabetes

Answer 18

hindu physicians in 600 BC

Question 19

parasites from the stomach after tumae

Answer 19

1500 BC

Question 20

who identified Taenia and Ascaris

Answer 20

Vivian Herrick

Question 21

It is the oldest preserved Egyptian
compilation of medical texts and when was it discoverd

Answer 21

Ebers Papyrus; 1500 BC

Question 22

how long is Ebers Papyrus

Answer 22

110-page long scroll

Question 23

ebers papyrus contains (7)

Answer 23

contraception,
pregnancy, skin and eye problems,
surgery, burns, intestinal disease,
and parasites

Question 24

Introduced the gravimetric analysis of urine using a number of 24-hour urine specimens

Answer 24

Jean Baptiste van Helmont (1577-1644)

Question 25

Presented a test for the detection of protein based on boiling of specimen in the presence of acetic acid

Answer 25

Frederick Dekkers (1673)

Question 26

Invented the single-lensed microscope

Answer 26

Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632)

Question 27

Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632) was first to describe

Answer 27

rbcs, protozoa, and classify bacteria according to shape

Question 28

Founder of Pathology

Answer 28

Marcelo Malphigi (1628-1694)

Question 29

Greatest of the early microscopists

Answer 29

Marcelo Malphigi (1628-1694)

Question 30

Contributed to embryology and anatomy

Answer 30

Marcelo Malphigi (1628-1694)

Question 31

German physician, anthropologist, politician and social reformer

Answer 31

Rudolph Virchow (1847)

Question 32

Rudolph Virchow (1847) is the founder of the field of

Answer 32

cellular pathology

Question 33

He stressed that most of the diseases of mankind could be understood in terms of the dysfunction of cells.

Answer 33

Rudolph Virchow (1847)

Question 34

19th century

Answer 34

the era of public health

Question 35

Showed that cholera was waterborne and brought the situation under control

Answer 35

John Snow (1854)

Question 36

Discovery of the concept of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria

Answer 36

Louis Pasteur (1861)

Question 37

discovery that cause of wine spoiling and it could be prevented by partial heat sterilization at 55-60oC

Answer 37

Louis Pasteur (1867)

Question 38

when did Pasteur discover vaccine against anthrax

Answer 38

1881

Question 39

Performed the first quantitative test for urine sugar

Answer 39

Hermann von Fehling (1848)

Question 40

Fehling's solution is used as a chemical test in

Answer 40

1) differentiate water-soluble aldehyde and ketone functional groups 2) test for monosaccharides

Question 41

His chemical test is used to screen for glucose in urine to detect diabetes

Answer 41

Hermann von Fehling (1848)

Question 42

A Danish physician who further developed Ehrlich's method of staining bacteria

Answer 42

Hans Christian Joachim Gram (1884)

Question 43

A German biologist who originally developed a method of staining bacteria

Answer 43

Paul Ehrlich

Question 44

Ehrlich used __ & __ to stain cells, and the cell walls would appear purple after staining

Answer 44

aniline water and gentian violet (a cationic dye)

Question 45

Gram devised his method that used __ as the primary stain, an iodine solution as a mordant followed by treatment with __ as a decolorizer.

Answer 45

Crystal Violet (Gentian Violet); ethanol

Question 46

Where did Dr. William H. Welch (1878) established a laboratory

Answer 46

Bellevue Hospital Medical College

Question 47

̶First professor of Pathology at John Hopkins University (1885)

Answer 47

Dr. William H. Welch (1878)

Question 48

Opened the first clinical laboratory at John Hopkins Hospital

Answer 48

Dr. William Osler (1896)

Question 49

Dr. Osler opened __ at the University of Pennsylvania

Answer 49

William Pepper Laboratory

Question 50

Produced a great demand for technicians

Answer 50

World War I

Question 51

One of the first schools to establish trainings for workers in 1922

Answer 51

University of Minnesota

Question 52

First to offer degree program in 1923

Answer 52

University of Minnesota

Question 53

* “Closed system” of blood collection was adopted * Advanced instrumentation * Automated equipment * Quality control programs

Answer 53

World War II

Question 54

First clinical laboratory in the PH

Answer 54

January 9, 1945

Question 55

Name of the first clinical lab in the PH and loc

Answer 55

Public Health Laboratory; Quiricada St., Sta. Cruz, Manila

Question 56

When did it reopened as Manila Public Health Laboratory and who were the people involved

Answer 56

October 1, 1945; Dr. Pio de Roda and Dr. Mariano Icasiano

Question 57

Who offered a training for high school and paramedical graduates and when did this occur?

Answer 57

Dr. Pio de Roda and Dr. Prudencia Sta. Ana; 1947

Question 58

who did Dr. Pio de Roda instructed to prepare a formal syllabus

Answer 58

Dr. Sta Ana with Dr. Briones

Question 59

how long was the laboratory training offered?

Answer 59

six months