Undergraduate Internship
The Undergraduate Internship as a professional Medical Laboratories Scientist intent to offer the students the chance to:
i. realize and appreciate the role they are called to fulfill in the field of Health and Biomedical Laboratory Sciences.
ii. gain the necessary practical and empirical skills which lead to the proper function of a clinical Laboratory.
iii. take part (if they wish) in research programs (projects) which take place in the trainee ship establishment.
i. realize and appreciate the role they are called to fulfill in the field of Health and Biomedical Laboratory Sciences.
ii. gain the necessary practical and empirical skills which lead to the proper function of a clinical Laboratory.
iii. take part (if they wish) in research programs (projects) which take place in the trainee ship establishment.
The establishments where the Undergraduate Internship takes place may be the following:
- Primary healthcare Clinical laboratories. These are mostly private bio pathological laboratories of diagnostic centers or sole proprietorship of freelance bio pathologists.
- Clinical laboratories of tertiary hospitals. These are laboratory departments in Athens and provincial public and private hospitals.
These laboratory departments are usually:
- Hematology
- Transfusion Medicine
- Immunology
- Biochemistry
- Histocompatibility
- Cytology
- Microbiology
- Pathology
- Biomedical laboratories of various public sector bodies such as:
- Food testing Microbiological and Chemical laboratories of the Agricultural Economics and Rural Development Ministry and the Development Ministry.
- Microbiological, Immunological, Biochemical and Molecular Biology laboratories of the Agricultural Economics and Rural Development Ministry’s veterinary services.
- Toxicology laboratories of the Ministry of Labor and Social Solidarity and the Ministry of Health and Providence.
- Public and private non-profit Research laboratories. More specifically the graduates can perform The Undergraduate Internship in laboratories and institutes of Microbiology, Hematology, Pathology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Laboratory animal Facilities (etc).
In the laboratories and Research & Development departments of industries which are dealing with the production of:
- Medical diagnostic equipment,
- Food and beverages and
- Medicine and cosmetics.
In clinical or R&D laboratories abroad through ERASMUS.
The Undergraduate Internship is fulfilled under the Division’s members of staff supervision and is coordinated from the Undergraduate Internship Committee.
The selection criteria for the Undergraduate Internship of students are:
- 70%: The number of completed subjects.
- 30%: The average grade of the completed subjects.
The assessment of the Undergraduate Internship is carried out by all the participants involved in its organization. More specifically, the final grade is a result of the following percentages:
- 40%: the assessment of the trainee ship establishment supervisor’s
- 40%: the assessment of the Division’s staff member supervisor
- 20%: the assessment of the Undergraduate Internship Committee
The Undergraduate Internship Committee defines the way of grading the subject of the “Undergraduate Internship” by the supervisors of the trainee ship establishment and the University of West Attica.
