WEEK 2: History Of Medical Technology Profession 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?
● Application of principles
● Performance of laboratory procedures
● Diagnosis and treatment of disease
By Heimann
● Performance of Laboratory determinations and analyses
● Diagnosis and treatment of disease
● Maintenance of health
By Anne Fagelson
Approved June 21, 1969 by Ferdinand Marcos
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*Section 2 - definition of terms
“The Philippine Medical Technology Act of 1969”
(RA 5527)
- An auxiliary branch of laboratory medicine
which deals with the examinations by various chemical,
microscopic, bacteriologic and other medical laboratory
procedures or technique. (RA 5527)
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
Give three personal qualities of a medtech
A. Good eyesight
B. Caring attitude
C. Normal color vision
The father of scientific medicine, adopted the triad of regimen, in treating diseases and infections with the use of drugs, surgery, and bloodletting. 460 BC.
Hippocrates
She showed the incidence of intestinal parasitic
infection caused by Ascaris lumbricoides and Taena species. 1550 BC.
Vivian Herrick
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 is the title of Ruth Williams’ book?
“An Introduction to the Profession of Medical Technology”
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
- He invented the first functional crude microscope.
- First scientist to observe and describe the appearance of red blood cell.
Anton Van Leuwenhoek
Father of pathology and histology.
Marcelo Malphigi
He was recognized as the ‘’father of microscopic pathology’’ also the first scientist to emphasized the study of manifestation of diseases and infections
Rudolf Virchow
The year when the dept. of Pathology was established
1850
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. William Occam
Initiated by Baron Karl von Humbeldt.
It was formulated for the regulation of the practice of apothecaries throughout England and Wales. It is the beginning of regulation of the medical profession in UK.
APOTHECARIES ACT of 1815
He performed first quantitative test for urine sugar.
Herman Fehling
It was formulated for the regulation of the practice of apothecaries throughout England and Wales. It is the beginning of regulation of the medical profession in UK.
APOTHECARIES ACT of 1815