[On the issue of cooperation in organizing the laboratory medicine education].

In the Omsk public medical Academy, the informational and technological support of laboratory medicine education at undergraduate and postgraduate stages required to organize the cooperation between the Russian Association of medical laboratory diagnostics and the Academy course of clinical diagnostics. The non-commercial interaction was organized between the Academy and the manufacturers and suppliers of laboratory diagnostic systems. This approach permitted to implement the cycle of scientific educational forums and to start the territorial program of quality management in laboratory research. The choice of the specialty "clinical laboratory diagnostics" as a prospective profession significantly increased among the Academy graduates. In addition, the Russian Association of medical laboratory diagnostics and the Omsk public medical Academy started a new joint project targeted to the support of laboratory diagnostics techniques training in concordance with the new public educational standard of higher professional education. Thereby, a specified model of joint resolution of actual issues is developed in the field of laboratory medicine education with coordinator collaboration of Russian Association of medical laboratory diagnostics as a professional non-government organization.

[Analysis of protein concentration in the urine of children with metabolic nephropathy, crystal-calcium crystalluria].

We compared the efficacy of a routine sulphosalycilic acid method and a new technique of pirogallolic red staining for urine protein assay in children with metabolic nephropathy, crystal-calcium crystaluria. The former method was found ineffective in proteinuria diagnosis in children with metabolic nephropathy. The pirogallolic method appeared more effective as it detects microproteinuria and therefore allows accurate diagnosis, control of its treatment and finally to improve the results of therapeutic and prophylactic measures.

[An automated method of detecting bacteriuria]. / Avtomatizirovannyi metod vyiavleniia bakteriurii.

A screening test for bacteriuria was developed, based on the use of the Bioscreen microbiological system (Labsystem, Finland) and nutrient media manufactured in the USSR. The diagnostic characteristics of the new test were assessed in screening of inpatients; the test has proved to be not inferior to similar methods realized in the microbiological systems manufactured in Western Europe and USA.