B.Sc Dialysis Technology
Undergraduate (B.Sc) programme · 3 years + 1 year internship · Department of Dialysis Technology
Overview
About the programme
This is an undergraduate specialised course in allied health science: a three-year full-time course with one year of compulsory rotatory internship.
It teaches students:
- the treatment of various diseases related to the kidney, and to perform dialysis on patients suffering from kidney failure, and
- the equipment involved, from repair and maintenance to water treatment monitoring and dialyser reprocessing.
Curriculum
What you will study
First year
- Anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and pathology - I
Second year
- Microbiology, pathology - II, nutrition and pharmacology
- Community medicine, basic physics, introduction to genetics and basic medical electronics
Third year
- Dialysis technology
Non-examination subjects (all years)
- English
- Computer
Clinical internship
One year of compulsory rotatory internship after the three academic years.
Career opportunities
- Dialysis technologist in hospital dialysis units
- Stand-alone dialysis centres
- Nephrology departments
- Dialysis equipment and water treatment
Higher studies
- M.Sc in dialysis technology / allied subjects
- Research
