PLACEMENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students at the end of the lesson will be familiar with the:

• routine analytical procedures of clinical laboratories (hematological, biochemical, microbiological, blood bank, cytological, immunological, histopathological) and others.
• trends of modern clinical pathology,
• quality control of analytical methods and the quality control assessment of laboratories.

SYLLABUS

The practice takes place in a clinic laboratory or other biomedical laboratories of the public or private sector. It includes:

• Practice in biological samples taking (i.e. taking venous blood mainly with a syringe, or vacuum device, taking vaginal samples, test PAP samples).
• Practice in a biochemical laboratory (i.e. use of biochemical analyzers, immunochemical analyzers, centrifugations, samples’ processing).
• Undergraduate Internship in a hematology laboratory (i.e. use of hematology analyzers, blood smear stains, ESR, microscopy of blood smears, analysis of coagulation factors, etc.).
• Practice in a microbiological laboratory (i.e. microbiological cultivations, preparation of culture medians, antibiograms, identification of bacteria, general tests of urine, feces, CSF and other biological fluids).
• Practice in a histopathological laboratory (i.e. embedding tissues, microtoming of paraffin blocks, histopathological staining, immunohistochemistry).
• Practice in a blood donation laboratory (i.e. blood sampling, blood bag handling, virological tests).
• Practice in a cytology laboratory (i.e. PAP staining, thin prep analyzes).
• Practice in an immunology-histocompatibility laboratory (i.e. determination of autoantibodies by indirect immunofluorescence, immunoenzymatic methods, immunoblotting, determination of HLA).
• Practice in a non-clinical laboratories (i.e. laboratory animals, criminology, toxicology, pharmacy, food-industries).
• Practice in research laboratories of public or private research institutions.