Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners Circular No. 15/2017

Updating the Lab related Scopes of Physicians in the State of Qatar

From

Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners (QCHP)

To

  • All Physicians in the State of Qatar

  • All Healthcare Facilities Focal Points in the State of Qatar

Subject

Updating the Lab related Scopes of Physicians in the State of Qatar

Date

31 July 2017

“Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners presents to you its compliments”.

As a result of the keenness of the registration department of the Qatar Council for Healthcare Specialties to update all policies related to the organization of the work of healthcare practitioners in the health sector in Qatar and to comply with the regional and international standards. The lab related scopes of physicians in the State of Qatar have been updated without changes to the definition or job description of the scopes.

The updated name of the Laboratory medicine scopes will be as:

  1. Laboratory medicine / Anatomic pathology.

  2. Laboratory medicine / Immunology.

  3. Laboratory medicine / Virology.

  4. Laboratory medicine / Microbiology

  5. Laboratory medicine / Hematology

  6. Laboratory medicine / Clinical pathology (involves Chemical pathology + microbiology + hematology +Blood banking).

  7. Laboratory medicine / Chemical pathology (Medical Biochemistry).

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