Clinical Chemistry I

A pair of courses in which the main objective is to acquaint students with fundamentals of clinical chemistry, including various analytical procedures, instrumentation, and methods used for determination of clinical analytes. Correlation of laboratory results with clinical manifestation is also an integral part of these courses. These two courses cover all aspects of routine clinical chemistry testing, such as carbohydrates, electrolytes, acid-base balance, blood gases, nitrogen metabolites, proteins, enzymes, lipids and lipoproteins, calcium metabolism, liver function tests as well as some advanced topics (hormones, therapeutic drug monitoring, toxicology) and specialized techniques like chromatography (HPLC and GC/Ms).