was opened to highlight the service role of clinical laboratories (1895)
William Pepper Laboratory of Clinical Medicine
First professor of Pathology in John Hopkins University (1870s)
William H. Welch
introduced and used microscope and a blood counting machine (1880)
Dr. William Osler
First to give laboratory instruction (1884)
Dr. Silas Douglas
became the largest and best equipped chemical laboratory open to students in US
University of Michigan
First clinical laboratory (1896)
John Hopkins Hospital
basis of diagnosing disease
Insurance act of 1911
Published The Demand for Training of Laboratory Technicians (1918)
John Kolmer
All hospitals and institutions required to have complete laboratory facilities with full time technicians
State Legislature of Pennsylvania
Two-year collegiate education and twelve-month actual training in the laboratory was formally established
Standard curriculum
Clinical Laboratories are divided into 4 to 5 divisions (1920)
Clinical Pathology
Bacteriology
Microbiology
Serology
Radiology
- 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)
American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)