B.Sc Operation Theatre & Anaesthesia Technology
Undergraduate (B.Sc) programme · 3 years + 1 year internship · Department of Operation Theatre 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:
- direct and indirect patient care,
- equipment set-up and operation procedures,
- assisting surgeons during procedures, and
- monitoring patients in and out of the operation theatre.
Curriculum
What you will study
First year
- Anatomy
- Physiology
- Biochemistry
- Pathology
Second year
- Pharmacology
- Microbiology
- Medicine and medical ethics
- Principles of anaesthesia I
Third year
- Sterilisation procedures
- Principles of anaesthesia II
Non-examination subjects (all years)
- English
- Computer
Clinical internship
One year of compulsory rotatory internship after the three academic years.
Career opportunities
- Operation theatre technologist
- Anaesthesia technologist
- CSSD and sterilisation
- Recovery and ICU support
Higher studies
- M.Sc in operation theatre and anaesthesia technology / allied subjects
- Research
