Ned-Sykes Renée, Johnson Catherine, Ridderhof John C, Perlman Eva, Pollock Anne, DeBoy John M
MMWR Suppl. 2015 May 15;64(1):1-81.
These competency guidelines outline the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for public health laboratory (PHL) professionals to deliver the core services of PHLs efficiently and effectively. As part of a 2-year workforce project sponsored in 2012 by CDC and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), competencies for 15 domain areas were developed by experts representing state and local PHLs, clinical laboratories, academic institutions, laboratory professional organizations, CDC, and APHL. The competencies were developed and reviewed by approximately 170 subject matter experts with diverse backgrounds and experiences in laboratory science and public health. The guidelines comprise general, cross-cutting, and specialized domain areas and are divided into four levels of proficiency: beginner, competent, proficient, and expert. The 15 domain areas are 1) Quality Management System, 2) Ethics, 3) Management and Leadership, 4) Communication, 5) Security, 6) Emergency Management and Response, 7) Workforce Training, 8) General Laboratory Practice, 9) Safety, 10) Surveillance, 11) Informatics, 12) Microbiology, 13) Chemistry, 14) Bioinformatics, and 15) Research. These competency guidelines are targeted to scientists working in PHLs, defined as governmental public health, environmental, and agricultural laboratories that provide analytic biological and/or chemical testing and testing-related services that protect human populations against infectious diseases, foodborne and waterborne diseases, environmental hazards, treatable hereditary disorders, and natural and human-made public health emergencies. The competencies support certain PHL workforce needs such as identifying job responsibilities, assessing individual performance, and providing a guiding framework for producing education and training programs. Although these competencies were developed specifically for the PHL community, this does not preclude their broader application to other professionals in a variety of different work settings.
这些能力指南概述了公共卫生实验室（PHL）专业人员高效且有效地提供PHL核心服务所需的知识、技能和能力。作为2012年由美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）和公共卫生实验室协会（APHL）发起的为期两年的劳动力项目的一部分，来自州和地方PHL、临床实验室、学术机构、实验室专业组织、CDC和APHL的专家制定了15个领域的能力要求。这些能力要求由大约170名在实验室科学和公共卫生方面具有不同背景和经验的主题专家制定和审查。该指南包括一般、交叉和专门领域，并分为四个熟练水平：初学者、胜任、精通和专家。这15个领域分别是：1）质量管理体系，2）伦理，3）管理与领导，4）沟通，5）安全，6）应急管理与响应，7）劳动力培训，8）一般实验室操作，9）安全，10）监测，11）信息学，12）微生物学，13）化学，14）生物信息学，以及15）研究。这些能力指南针对在PHL工作的科学家，PHL被定义为政府公共卫生、环境和农业实验室，这些实验室提供分析生物和/或化学检测以及与检测相关的服务，以保护人群免受传染病、食源性和水源性疾病、环境危害、可治疗的遗传性疾病以及自然和人为公共卫生紧急情况的影响。这些能力支持PHL劳动力的某些需求，例如确定工作职责、评估个人绩效以及为制定教育和培训计划提供指导框架。尽管这些能力是专门为PHL社区制定的，但这并不排除它们在各种不同工作环境中更广泛地应用于其他专业人员。
