This module has been developed to provide clinical laboratory scientists with information about the laboratory identification of Plague. Developed by a team of content experts and information technology personnel from the California Department of Health Services (CDHS) Microbial Diseases Laboratory (MDL) with instructional design and project management support from the National Laboratory Training Network (NLTN), the module seeks to assist clinical laboratory scientists to better recognize potential agents of bioterrorism that they might encounter during routine laboratory work-ups of sputum, blood and aspirate/biopsy specimens. Laboratory managers may consider using this course to assess competency of their staff to accurately perform the relevant laboratory procedures and to correctly refer specimens for confirmatory testing.

The module content consists of interactive challenges that provide the learner with information about a microorganism that could be implicated in a bioterrorism event. The module opens with information about the organism under study and then proceeds to a story-based simulation in which the learners engage in defined laboratory-related scenarios. Three types of scenarios are included: endemic, confounding and bioterrorism-related. At intervals, the learners make multiple-choice decisions that mimic the decisions they would make in a real job situation. The lesson is made interesting and entertaining by the inclusion of images of the scenario characters and audio of their conversations.

Plague Overview
Plague Challenge One
Plague Challenge Two
Plague Challenge Three

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