Barr J T
Am J Med Technol. 1979 Jun;45(6):532-6.
A continuum of four microbiology courses for medical technology majors has been developed by the Medical Laboratory Science Program at Northeastern University. Using a system approach to curriculum design, the academic and clinical faculty identified career-entry capabilities, delineated appropriate subject content, and developed an instructional system which placed individual topics into one of four courses in the ladder curriculum: a basic, second-year, university-based clinical microbiology course stressing microbial technique and common organism identification; third-year microbiology and cellular physiology courses developing theoretical aspects; a fourth-year, hospital-based clinical microbiology rotation emphasizing isolation and identification techniques for significant pathogens; and a fourth-year, university-based, didactic course covering host defense-organism virulence interactions, infectious disease principles, and new techniques and unusual isolates as reported in the recent journal literature. Based on four years of experience with this system and in light of the publication of the 1978 American Society for Medical Technology (ASMT) Competency Statements, the Northeastern Medical Laboratory Science Program faculty is currently reexamining the continuum to insure completeness and appropriateness of overall subject content, to provide reinforcement, and to remove unnecessary duplication among the courses in the curriculum.
东北大学医学检验科学项目为医学技术专业学生开发了一系列四门微生物学课程。通过系统的课程设计方法，学术和临床教师确定了入职所需能力，划定了适当的学科内容，并开发了一种教学系统，将各个主题纳入阶梯式课程的四门课程之一：一门基于大学二年级的基础临床微生物学课程，重点是微生物技术和常见生物体鉴定；三年级的微生物学和细胞生理学课程，深入讲解理论知识；四年级在医院进行的临床微生物学实习，重点是重要病原体的分离和鉴定技术；以及一门基于大学四年级的理论课程，涵盖宿主防御与病原体毒力相互作用、传染病原理，以及近期期刊文献中报道的新技术和罕见分离株。基于四年使用该系统的经验，并鉴于1978年美国医学技术协会（ASMT）能力声明的发布，东北大学医学检验科学项目的教师目前正在重新审视这一系列课程，以确保整体学科内容的完整性和适当性，提供强化教学，并消除课程之间不必要的重复。
