Assess your understanding of the biochemistry of different disease states and your ability to interpret case studies.Your work should be informed by the learning you have experienced within the taught components of the module, but should be supplemented by reference to relevant published literature (text books and journal articles). Please do NOT cite lecture or workshop material in your essays. The word limit for this assignment is 2000 words. This should be divided equally between the two essays ie 1000 words per essay. You need to be confident in your understanding of accuracy, precision, linearity, limit of detection, limit of quantitation, assay sensitivity and specificity and clinical sensitivity and specificity. Quality assurance is also an important aspect of clinical biochemistry – the narrated PowerPoints will introduce you to the methods used in clinical biochemistry labs in the UK. Point of care testing, Clinical Sensitivity and Specificity, Result Interpretation, Quality Assurance, Automation, Method validation and Quality Assurance
