Diagnostics and imagingDiploma
Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology
- Department
- Medical Laboratory Technology
- Duration
- 2 years
B.Sc Medical Laboratory Technology
Undergraduate (B.Sc) programme · 3 years + 1 year internship · Department of Medical Laboratory 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 is concerned with:
- the treatment, diagnosis and prevention of diseases through the use of clinical laboratory tests,
- learning, through these tests, to diagnose, detect and treat diseases, and
- collecting patients' samples, testing, reporting and documentation.
Curriculum
What you will study
First year
- Human biology
- Basic chemistry
- General methodology
- Physics and principles of instrumentation
Second year
- Histopathology and cytology techniques
- Biochemistry I
- Clinical pathology and basic haematology
- Microbiology I, parasitology and entomology
Third year
- Coagulation and transfusion medicine
- Biochemistry II
- Microbiology II
Non-examination subjects (all years)
- English
- Computer
Clinical internship
One year of compulsory rotatory internship after the three academic years.
Career opportunities
- Medical laboratory technologist in hospital laboratories
- Diagnostic laboratories
- Blood banks
- Research laboratories
Higher studies
- M.Sc in medical laboratory technology / allied subjects
- Research
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