Laboratory Management & Function

Principles and functions of Management. Personnel Management, Staff/Management relationships, stock control, record keeping. Management and administrative practices. Ecology of administration. Inventory and quality control. Accounting and budgeting. Medicolegal aspects of medical laboratory sciences. Professional ethics. Laboratory planning. Introduction to statistical procedures and biological research estimation, analysis of variance, tests of significance, goodness of fit, correlation and regression. Theory and practice of quality control – setting up quality control, various methods of quality control; factors affecting quality of output.