RATIONALE
In accordance with Department Memorandum No. 2020-0538, the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) is authorized to designate and certify training providers capacitating licensed COVID-19 testing laboratories, including training for new techniques such as pooled testing, and providing the requisite training for laboratories securing license-to-operate as COVID-19 testing laboratories.

SCOPE
This guideline shall apply to all institutions or interested parties such as but not limited to, Center for Health Development (CHDs), government and private entities or hospitals, Professional Societies like Philippine Society of Pathologists (PSP), Philippine Association of Medical Technologists (PAMET), Philippine Society for Microbiology (PSM), Philippine Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (PSMID) requesting to be certified as training providers enabling licensed COVID-19 testing laboratories.