The objective of Medical Laboratory Assistant program is to help individuals prepare for the challenges of a career within the medical environment.
Graduates enjoy the greatest career satisfaction when they are scholastically prepared, hold a solid, practical understanding of their responsibilities and begin their positions with a healthy attitude.
Medical Laboratory Assistant Courses
- Anatomy, Physiology and Terminology
- Introduction to the Clinical Laboratory
- Quality Assurance and Laboratory Mathematics
- Blood
- Circulatory System and ECG
- Medical Microbiology
- Urinalysis
- Clinical Procedures
- Histology and Cytology
- Nervous System and Special Senses Endocrine
- Musculoskeletal System
- Digestive System and Body Metabolism
- Reproductive System
The program provides both theoretical and practical instruction in a well-equipped classroom / laboratory setting. In class learning is supplemented during the enrollment period by clinical work experience in any of the fast-paced hospital departments.
Career Opportunities
This program prepares individuals for a career in:
- A private diagnostic testing laboratory
- A public health laboratory (including Blood Services)
- A hospital laboratory or outpatient department
- A quality control laboratory (food industry, microbiology media, point of care testing)
- A veterinary laboratory
- A physicians office or clinic
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