General provisions

The content, length and level of the education are regulated by Ordinance 2008:1101 in the Swedish Code of Statutes.

The course is given in semester 3 of the Complementary Programme for Biomedical Laboratory Scientists with a Foreign Degree, and consists mainly of practical proficiency training. The course aims to enable students to acquire the knowledge in biomedical laboratory science and its methodology which are required for an understanding of later courses in the programme as well as the skills that are included in the biomedical scientist's professional activities. The placement may be transferred to a location different from the study location.

Entry requirements

Basic Laboratory Science, 11 credits, in the Complementary Programme for Biomedical Laboratory Scientists with a Foreign Degree. For placement in clinical laboratories, it is required that the relevant clinical courses are completed or have been credited as well as that the relevant practical tests are passed.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding

On completion of the course the student should be able to:

• notice and handle technical irregularities
• identify the elements that provide the foundations for compliance with specific quality demands
• process and interpret analysis and research results from both a technical and a medical point of view
• describe the logistics of diagnostic laboratories
• be able to present the regulatory framework that applies to documentation in a laboratory

Skills and abilities

On completion of the course, the student should:

• be able to apply his/her theoretical and practical knowledge in Biomedical Laboratory Methodology
• be able to write a project outline according to a given template
• be able to give an oral presentation of an analysis performed according to quality assured documentation
• review, assess and use relevant information critically
• show ability for teamwork and co-operation in the workplace irrespective of the staff's gender, ethnicity or sexual disposition
• be able to design a laboratory protocol from a scientific article

Evaluation ability and attitudes

On completion of the course, the student should:

• with regard to human rights be able to meet patients professionally in the sample taking / examination situation from an ethical, diversity and equality perspective.

Content

Patient approach, sampling, sample handling, referral procedure and test flow. Laboratory analyses and studies including analysis principles, the technical implementation, result assessment and quality assurance for the chosen fields. Retrieving information from scientific publications. Writing a report on at least two projects

Instruction

Practical and theoretical teaching is carried out under supervision at at least three fundamentally different laboratory activities.

Assessment

Examination takes place in the form of a laboratory diary and an independent written report which is to be presented as a Powerpoint presentation. The placement supervisor makes assessments according to a standard assessment form.

The student has the right to go through a new clinical placement once. Exemption for additional occasions can be granted by the Programme Committee if special circumstances apply.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.

Other directives

A student who did not get a passing grade for the placement has the right to go through a new placement once (Chapter 6 Section 21 Higher Education Ordinance (1993:100)).

PREMATURELY INTERRUPTED PLACEMENT A student may be failed and be forced to interrupt the clinical placement prematurely if there is a noticeable risk that the student due to incompetence may injure another individual or valuable property if he or she continues the clinical placement.

An individual plan should be decided for the student and be given to him or her in writing. In this plan, to be determined by the Programme Committee, the knowledge and skill shortages should be clearly stated. The plan should also state which support the student can get from the department and how and when the control can take place as well as how these should be done. A student has the right to at most two control occasions however no more than one a year.

The student may not participate in the clinical placement again, until the Programme Committee has checked and accepted that the student has the required knowledge and skills.

Decisions on the individual study plan may be delegated by the Programme Committee to a student welfare committee or equivalent with student representation.