Competency information

Details

Interpret clinical requests and associated specimens to prioritise investigations, including the identification of urgent cases.

Considerations

  • Clinical terminology for a variety of clinical conditions.
  • The relative seriousness of different clinical conditions and the need for rapid results, e.g. cancer pathway, frozen sections while the patient is in theatre, etc.

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 2 Outcome Perform investigations for the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of named clinical conditions.