Requesting laboratory tests and interpreting the results -- Water and sodium -- The kidneys -- Acid-base disturbances – Potassium -- Calcium, phosphate and magnesium -- The hypothalamus and pituitary gland -- The adrenal cortex -- The reproductive system -- Pregnancy and infertility -- Thyroid function -- Carbohydrate metabolism -- Plasma lipids and lipoproteins – Nutrition -- Vitamins, trace elements and metals -- The gastrointestinal tract -- Liver disorders and gallstones -- Plasma enzymes in diagnosis (clinical enzymology) -- Proteins in plasma and urine -- Purine and urate metabolism -- Disorders of haem metabolism: iron and the porphyrias -- Cardiovascular disease -- Cerebrospinal and pleural fluid -- Metabolic effects of tumours -- Therapeutic drug monitoring and poisoning -- Clinical biochemistry at the extremes of age -- Inborn errors of metabolism -- Genetics and DNA-based technology in clinical biochemistry -- Patient sample collection and use of the laboratory -- Point of care testing

1. Clinical biochemistry
2. Metabolism
3. Clinical Chemistry Tests
4. Metabolic Phenomena