Open AccessVirtual assessment, training, and evaluation of clinical laboratory technologists amidst peak Covid-19 pandemic: An observational study
Author(s) -
Sibtain Ahmed,
Muhammad Abbas Abid,
Firdous Jahan,
Tomris Özben
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of medical biochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.681
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1452-8258
pISSN - 1452-8266
DOI - 10.5937/jomb0-33962
Subject(s) - covid-19 , observational study , test (biology) , medical education , psychological intervention , pandemic , intervention (counseling) , medicine , comprehension , quality (philosophy) , psychology , medical physics , computer science , nursing , pathology , paleontology , philosophy , disease , epistemology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , biology , programming language
Medical technologists are considered a neglected group when it comes to academic interventions. We developed and implemented an educational intervention and assessment for the technologists based on an online questionnaire as a pre-test consisting of questions related to knowledge (n=5), attitude (n=3), and practices (n=4) of daily internal quality control (QC) monitoring via google docs survey tool. This study served multiple purposes. It allowed to keep the technologists engaged during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, while also improving the knowledge, attitude and practices about the internal quality control using Bio-Rad Unity Real Time (URT) QC software. Subjects were graded based on the scores they received out of 100 (0-60=poor; 61-79=good; 80-100=excellent). Training materials i.e., a set of 5 videos every week via e-mail were circulated. A voice-over PowerPoint presentation was also shared for easy comprehension. This activity was repeated after one month. A post-test was administered to assess the improvement. The results of the study show significant improvement in the technologists’ performance after the intervention.