Professional rights of graduates
The professional rights of the Department’s graduates are defined in the Presidential Decree no. 163, article 1 (National Gazette 118/14-6-1996 first issue).
Upon successful completion of their studies, the Department’s graduates have gained the necessary knowledge and laboratory/practical experience in order to be either self-employed or co-operate with other scientists and technologists in the following fields:
- Hematology
- Transfusion Medicine
- Immunology
- Biochemistry – Clinical Chemistry
- Histopathology – Pathology
- Microbiology
- Mycology
- Parasitology
- Laboratory Animal Science
Within these subjects and the relative sectors, the Department’s graduates may undertake the following responsibilities:
- Giving instructions to people who undergo medical examination for their proper preparation as well as the appropriate sample collection for each examination.
- Sampling of biological fluids.
- Receiving the samples that are delivered to the laboratory.
- Preparation of the samples that need to be examined.
- Production of all the necessary materials, reagents and solutions.
- Smear preparation and performance of staining techniques.
- Preparation and testing of all sorts of instruments and machines that are intended for use.
- After conducting the examination, they take responsibility and sign the part of the laboratory examination which was assigned to them.
- Moreover, in the Transfusion Medicine laboratory (Blood Bank) they give instructions to volunteer blood donors for their proper preparation. They check the volunteers’ ability to donate blood prior to blood collection, while afterwards they may take up the processing of blood into components etc.
- Especially in the Animal Model Units they are responsible for the welfare of the laboratory animals, they supervise the proper housing, the balanced diet and living, and they organize their reproduction. They are involved in the calculation of the doses of the medicinal products administrated and the experimental substances In cooperation with the responsible veterinarian of the Unit, they shall be involved in experimental surgical procedures carried out in a painless manner, in accordance with the International Standards of 3R on the protection of laboratory animals, by administering and controlling the sedation and post-operative analgesia of the animals.
- Cooperate with the investigator in relation to the selection of appropriate Animal Models standards used in the in vivo experimental procedure. They also participate in the design of the laboratory layout, the choice of equipment (machines, instruments), while they supervise the proper regular maintenance and cleaning of machines, instruments, devices etc. applying the required hygiene and safety regulations.
- They undertake the selection and application of the most suitable laboratory methods.
- The graduates participate in consumable medical supplies’ committees, qualitative test results, keeping up records, projects and research studies carried out by the relevant laboratories.
