Flashcards: PMLS QUIZ (HISTORY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY IN US)

was opened to highlight the service role of clinical laboratories (1895)

First professor of Pathology in John Hopkins University (1870s)

introduced and used microscope and a blood counting machine (1880)

First to give laboratory instruction (1884)

became the largest and best equipped chemical laboratory open to students in US

First clinical laboratory (1896)

basis of diagnosing disease

Published The Demand for Training of Laboratory Technicians (1918)

All hospitals and institutions required to have complete laboratory facilities with full time technicians

Two-year collegiate education and twelve-month actual training in the laboratory was formally established

Clinical Laboratories are divided into 4 to 5 divisions (1920)

- Objective of encouraging the cooperation between physicians and clinical pathologist

- Maintaining the status of clinical pathologist

- Established the code of ethics for technicians and technologists (1922)