MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE

Our desire is to bring laboratory medicine closer to the outside world and to create the opportunity for closer collaboration with institutions, organizations and agencies for our mutual benefit. Our vision is to offer high quality career-oriented professional education for national development. In the light of this, we put emphasis to provide youths with opportunities that will reduce unemployment rate of Cameroonians by training viable youths with manual dexterity to become leaders in holistic-oriented education.

1. Objective of the Training:

• The BMLS (Top-up) program in the school of Medical and Biomedical Sciences is designed to offer the opportunity for completion of a BMLS degree in advanced academic and practical work, to candidates who have successfully completed the Higher National Diploma (HND) program and have obtained the HND certificates and will wish to top-up to a bachelor degree.
• Also toping-up to a degree prepares an individual to work in all the disciplines in a clinical laboratory. It also gives an opportunity for learners to cover all aspects of medical laboratory sciences.
• Students will be taught by staff who are leading researchers in their fields and who are also qualified health practitioners.

2. Skills to be acquired:

• Explain and analyze concepts in sociology and anthropology and their applications in medicine.
• Understand the structure and functions of human body in relation to health and disease through collaborative group work, interactive notebook projects, and labs.
• Understand normal and abnormal cell and tissue structure, carry out preparation of slide for biopsies and pap smears for cancer diagnosis.
• Apply principles in optics, mechanics, reflection, light and waves in medicine.

 

3. Employment Opportunities:

• Biological Technician
• Blood Bank Technologist
• Chemical and Materials Scientist
• Chemical Technician
• Clinical Chemistry Technologist
• Cytotechnologist
• Immunology Technologist
• Medical Laboratory Scientist