Program offered is a Diploma.

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 physician's office or clinic

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