BI301106 LABORATORY MEDICINE

Courses given during the first and second year of the programme

On class completion the student should
- Be able to document the quality of the laboratory’s instruments and technical procedures.
- Be able to develop a perspective on possible environmental consequences of the laboratory’s activity
- Have acquired knowledge about the normal processes in the human body, and processes that reflects diseases in one or more of the body’s organs.
- Be able to understand why specific biochemical principles are being used to measure or determine certain substances.
- Be able to understand biological variation and the clinical relevance of the results from the analyses.
- Be able to evaluate the medical validity of the result of the test, i.e. quality of the analysis in comparison to the medical problem.
- Be able to give priority to one test before another in case of emergency.
- Have knowledge of blood type serology and medical uses of different blood products.

- Clinical chemistry, including clinical biochemistry and haematology
- Nucleic medicine
- Clinical pharmacology
- Immunohaematology and transfusion medicine
- Medical microbiology, including bacteriology, virology, mycology and protozoology
- Pathology, including histopathology and cytology
- Factors influencing the working environment. Internal control systems.
- Official approval systems
- Organisation of the health care system and the laboratory
- Development of the profession of the medical laboratory technologist

Lectures and compulsory laboratory exercises. It is put emphasis upon student active ways of learning, such as student projects, and problem based learning (PBL).

Compulsory laboratory courses, including laboratory journals

Approved compulsory journals from the exercises, and compulsory presence at the exercises. Practical examination must be passed before entry to written examination, which is a theoretical home based project.