Course for Lab Technicians (Microscopy and NAAT) in NTEP

Target Audience

• LT-Microscopy
• LT-Microscopy & NAAT

• M 01: Basics of TB and NTEP

  • Ch 01: Epidemiology and Burden of TB
  • Ch 02: Introduction to NTEP
  • Ch 03: General Concepts in TB Care in India
  • Ch 04: Nikshay - The NTEP Information System

• M 02: TB Diagnosis and Case finding in NTEP

  • Ch 05: Diagnostic Technologies in NTEP
  • Ch 06: Diagnostic Network & Hierarchy in NTEP
  • Ch 07: TB Diagnosis
  • Ch 08: Case Finding methods under NTEP
  • Ch 09: Role of LTs and related stakeholders in TB Care

• M 05: Specimen collection and Transportation

  • Ch 18: General Concepts in SCT
  • Ch 19: Packaging and dispatching a sample to a C&DST Lab

• M 03: Smear Microscopy

  • Ch 10: Collecting & Storage of Good Quality Specimen
  • Ch 11: Sputum Smear Preparation
  • Ch 12: Staining Sputum Smear
  • Ch 13: Reading Smear and Reporting Microscopy results
  • Ch 14: Maintenance of Microscope
  • Ch 15: Maintaining Supplies of Lab consumables at DMC

• M 04: Ensuring Quality Microscopy

  • Ch 16: General Concepts in quality assurance
  • Ch 17: EQA for LTs

• Module: CBNAAT

  • Ch 01: CBNAAT as a Rapid Molecular Diagnostic tool
  • Ch 02: Sample processing for CBNAAT
  • Ch 03: CBNAAT Result Interpretation and recording
  • Ch 04: Trouble shooting in CBNAAT
  • Ch 05: Maintenance of CBNAAT
  • Ch 06: Monitoring CBNAAT quality and lab performance
  • Ch 07: Biomedical waste management in CBNAAT Lab

• Module: Truenat

  • Ch 01: Truenat as a Rapid Molecular Diagnostic Test
  • Ch 02: Specimen processing for Truenat
  • Truenat: Testing using Truenat
  • Ch 03: Truenat result Interpretation and recording
  • Ch 04: Troubleshooting in Truenat
  • Ch 05: Truenat Instrument maintenance and record keeping
  • Ch 06: Monitoring Truenat quality and lab performance
  • Ch 07: Biomedical waste management in Truenat

• M 06: Infection Prevention and Control [IPC]

  • Ch 20: General Concepts in IPC
  • Ch 21: Airborne infection Control
  • Ch 22: Biomedical Waste Management at DMC

• M 07: TB Treatment, Follow-up and Public Health Actions

  • Ch 23: General Concepts in TB Treatment for LT
  • Ch 24: TB Treatment initiation and Follow-up
  • Ch 25: TB Preventive Therapy
  • Ch 26: Public Health Actions for TB
  • Ch 27: Comorbidity screening and testing
  • Ch 28: TB Treatment Adherence

• M 08: Interacting with Patients

  • Ch 29: Stigma, Discrimination and Gender sensitivity
  • Ch 30: Counselling for Collecting Sputum Specimen
  • Ch 31: Communicating Results to the patient
  • Ch 32: Counselling the TB patients