Clinical laboratory diagnostics — a scientific speciality

Clinical laboratory diagnostics meets the concepts of science as a sphere of human activity with a theoretical basis and a system of cognitive activity aimed at obtaining and producing knowledge and generalizations that allow building cause-and-effect relationships and predicting the development of pathology and effectively monitoring the treatment process. Clinical laboratory diagnostics meets the criteria of a scientific discipline: objectivity, rationality, essentialist orientation, systematicity of knowledge, verifiability, problematic nature, criticality, the possibility of generalizations and predictions, orientation to practice, and is aimed at obtaining results that are used in health care and science. Clinical laboratory diagnostics actively offers new technologies, on the basis of which the etiology and pathogenesis of hereditary and acquired pathologies and diseases of humans are explained. Activities in the field of laboratory medicine are aimed at maintaining health and developing a system for diagnosing and monitoring pathological conditions and diseases of humans, screening the population for infectious diseases and, on this basis, monitoring the epidemic situation in society.

The subject (object of study) is biomaterial from a living person in vitro. Complex analysis using biochemical, immunological, biophysical, cytological, molecular biological and other methods of studying human biomaterial is the essence of laboratory research. Clinical laboratory diagnostics is included in the list of scientific specialties in medical and biological fields.

Clinical laboratory diagnostics is a knowledge-intensive medical specialty, which is one of the locomotives of medical sciences. The basis for this is the advanced implementation of knowledge-intensive technologies, the complex nature of the specialty, including several biological and medical areas, the unifying (horizontal) principle of functioning with the absolute majority of clinical specialties, a favorable procedure for training scientific personnel, an active educational and tested system for the implementation of scientific achievements through scientific forums, publications in scientific journals and specialized publications.