Competency information

Details

Produce basic interpretative reports on immunological investigations.

Considerations

  • The information to be included in an interpretative report.
  • How to construct an interpretative report and the format required for presentation.
  • Limits of responsibility in the authorisation and issue of interpretative reports.
  • Clinical conditions that may require urgent action and how to instigate such action.
  • Normal and abnormal results and their significance to the clinical question or condition.

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 1 Outcome Interpret routine requests for common clinical immunology investigations in the correct clinical context and process the specimens that accompany those requests.
# 2 Outcome Use laboratory IT systems for handling, processing and storage of patient data.
# 4 Outcome Report the results of commonly performed clinical immunology investigations of major organ function.