The professional standard of a specialist in clinical laboratory medicine and its evaluation by medical laboratory staff

The issue of improving the personnel service in clinical laboratory diagnostics is topical, since specialists, having modern knowledge in laboratory research, can not stay aside from active participation during their appointment and interpretation. Training of specialists of this level requires revision of the regulatory framework, namely, the development of professional standards for specialists in clinical laboratory medicine. The survey involved 83 specialists with higher education working in clinical diagnostic laboratories of various forms of ownership in the Samara Region (Russia). In the course of the study, data were obtained reflecting the readiness to perform a number of generalized labor functions of the professional standard. Prior to the evaluation of the criterion of attention paid to the labor function in each group of respondents, we expected to obtain values of 9-10 units. However, in the course of the study, we found that this indicator in various groups of respondents fluctuated in a wide range. We believe that the training of professional stuff with higher education in laboratory medicine should be implemented in parallel with the introduction of the professional standard.