Certified Professional in Healthcare Laboratory

📘Program Overview

The Certified Professional in Healthcare Laboratory (CPHL) program ensures that the laboratory workforce is prepared with the knowledge and skills needed to make sustainable and significant contributions to patient care.

The certification promotes the enhanced delivery of safe and effective care by qualified laboratory staff by encouraging continued professional growth in laboratory practice.

It establishes a standard of knowledge appropriate for laboratory professionals, assisting healthcare organizations in assessing laboratory staff competency across the major disciplines of the clinical laboratory.

🎯Program Rationale

• Laboratory results inform the majority of clinical decisions.
• Workforce competency is essential to accuracy and patient safety.
• Standardized knowledge supports accreditation and quality.
• Certification recognizes and advances laboratory professionals.

👥Target Audience

• Medical laboratory scientists and technologists
• Laboratory technicians and supervisors
• Quality and safety staff within the laboratory
• Allied health professionals supporting laboratory services
• Staff seeking formal laboratory credentials

✅Program Objectives

• Apply core knowledge across the major laboratory disciplines.
• Perform and interpret testing accurately and safely.
• Apply quality assessment and troubleshooting.
• Maintain laboratory safety and sound operations.
• Support continuous professional growth and competency.

🏆Learning Outcomes

• Perform blood-banking, chemistry, and hematology testing.
• Conduct urinalysis, immunology, and microbiology procedures.
• Apply quality assessment and instrumentation principles.
• Maintain safety and accurate laboratory mathematics.
• Support education and basic laboratory management.

📚Program Structure

• Module 1: Blood Banking
• Blood products
• Blood group systems and immunology
• Physiology and pathophysiology
• Serology and molecular testing
• Transfusion practice
• Module 2: Urinalysis & Body Fluids
• Physical and chemical testing
• Microscopic analysis
• Physiology
• Disease states
• Module 3: Clinical Chemistry
• Carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins
• Enzymes and heme derivatives
• Acid–base, blood gases, and electrolytes
• Endocrinology, vitamins, and nutrition
• Therapeutic drug monitoring and toxicology
• Module 4: Hematology
• Physiology and disease states
• Hematology laboratory testing
• Hemostasis
• Module 5: Immunology
• Principles of immunology
• Diseases of the immune system
• Transplantation
• Infectious-disease serology
• Serologic and molecular procedures
• Module 6: Microbiology
• Preanalytical procedures
• Bacteriology and mycology
• Mycobacteriology
• Parasitology and virology
• Post-analytic procedures
• Module 7: Laboratory Operations
• Quality assessment and troubleshooting
• Safety
• Laboratory mathematics
• Manual and automated methodology and instrumentation
• Basic management and education principles

📝Assessment & Certification

• Module knowledge checks
• Practical bench-skills demonstration
• Quality-assessment exercise
• Final comprehensive examination

🚀Capstone / Practical Project

Develop a laboratory quality-assurance and safety plan for a chosen discipline, including QC procedures, troubleshooting steps, and documentation.

🏥Organizational Impact

• More accurate, reliable laboratory results
• Standardized workforce competency
• Stronger quality assessment and safety
• Greater accreditation readiness

📈Career Pathway

• Medical Laboratory Scientist
• Laboratory Technologist
• Laboratory QA Officer
• Laboratory Supervisor

Exam Fee: $1339