Medical Laboratory Sciences

Admission Criteria

Admission requirements for Medical Laboratory Sciences

To be admitted to the regular Program, candidates must:

- Meet the set entrance criteria for Higher Education institutions.
- Satisfy the academic rules and regulations of the university.
- Present diploma in Medical Laboratory Technician/Technology/Sciences who meet the admission criteria set by authorized institution. Diploma/advanced diploma/ level IV graduates in Medical Laboratory Sciences, passed certificate of competency (COC) exam and able to pass entry exam of the teaching institution
- Be physically and mentally healthy and fit to the program
  - Applicants with minor physical problems that would not hinder effective training should be considered in to the school
  - However, any student with any visual problem and any problem in manipulation of laboratory equipment using his/her both hands should not be selected to join the school. If the student has a claim on his/her suspected visual impairment, he/she must confirm his/her eye vision with medical evidence.

Module Breakdown

Year	Module Name	Module Code	Module Type	Module Credit hour	Module EtCTS	Delivery
Year I Sem I	Communicative English Language Skills I	FLEn1011	General	3	5	Parallel
	General Physics	Phys 1011	General	3	5	Parallel
	General Psychology	Psch1011	General	3	5	Parallel
	Mathematics for Natural Sciences	Math1011	General	3	5	Parallel
	Critical Thinking	LoCT1011	General	3	5	Parallel
	Geography of Ethiopia and the Horn	GeES1011	General	3	5	Parallel
	Physical Fitness	SpSc1011	General	–	P/F	Parallel
	Total EtCTS			18	30
Year I Sem II	Communicative English Language Skills II	FLEn1012	General	3	5	Parallel
	Social Anthropology	Anth1012	General	2	4	Parallel
	General Biology	Biol1012	General	3	5	Parallel
	Economics	Econ-M1012	General	3	5	Parallel
	Introduction to Emerging Technologies	EmTe1012	General	3	5	Parallel
	Moral and Civics Education	MCiE1012	General	2	4	Parallel
	General Chemistry	Chem1012	General	3	5	Parallel
	Total			19	33
Year II	Determinants of Health	SPH-M2152	Supportive	2	3	Parallel
	Chemistry	Chem-M2162	Supportive	6	10	Parallel
	Biomedical science	Biom-M2172	Supportive	9	15	Parallel
	Basic to Medical Laboratory Science	MeLS-M2183	Core	5	9	Parallel

	Molecular Biology and Applied Genetics	MeLS-M2193	Core	5	8	Parallel
	Medical Parasitology and Vector Biology	MeLS-M2203	Core	10	17	Parallel
	Hematology and Immunohematology	MeLS-M2213	Core	11	19	Parallel
	Global Trends	GlTr-M2221	General	2	3
	Total			50	84
Year III	Immunology and Serology	MeLS-M3233	Core	6	10	Parallel
	Medical Bacteriology and Public Health Microbiology	MeLS-M3243	Core	10	17	Parallel
	Urine and Body Fluid Analysis	MeLS-M3253	Core	4	7	Parallel
	Basic Pharmacology	Phar-M3262	Supportive	3	5	Parallel
	Inclusiveness	SNIE-M3271	General	2	3	Parallel
	Clinical Laboratory Attachment I	MeLS- M2283	Core	2	3	Parallel/Block

	Clinical chemistry and toxin analysis	MeLS-M3293	Core	10	17	Parallel
	Histopathology	MeLS-M3303	Core	3	5	Parallel
	Instrumentation	MeLS-M3323	Core	2	3	Parallel
	Medical Mycology	MeLS-M3323	Core	2	3	Parallel
	Measurement of Health and Disease	SPH-M3332	Supportive	3	5	Parallel
	Clinical Laboratory Attachment II	MeLS-M3343	Core	3	5	Parallel/Block
	Total			50	83
Year IV	Medical Virology	MeLS-M4353	Core	3	5	Parallel
	Health promotion and disease prevention	SPH-M4362	Supportive	2	3	Parallel
	Health Informatics	Hinf-M4372	Supportive	2	3	Parallel
	Health Laboratory and supply chain management	MeLS-M4383	Core	3	5	Parallel
	Quality assurance in medical laboratory	MeLS-M4393	Core	2	3	Parallel
	Health service management and policy	SPH-M4402	Supportive	2	3	Parallel
	Research Methodology	SPH-M4412	Supportive	2	3	Parallel
	Student Research Proposal	MeLS-M4423	Core	1	2	Parallel
	Advanced and Research laboratory attachment	MeLS-M4433	Core	2	3	Block
	Clinical Laboratory Attachment III	MeLS-M4443	Core	4	7	Parallel/Block

	Entrepreneurship	ENps-M 4451	General	2	3	Block
	Laboratory Internship	MeLS-M4463	Core	6	10	Block
	Student Research project	MeLS-M4473	Core	2	3	Parallel
	Team Training Program (TTP)	ComH-M4482	Supportive	4	7	Block
	Comprehensive Examination	MeLS-M4493	Core	–	P/F	Block
	Total Year IV module credit hours			37	60
Total				174	290

Graduation Requirement

Graduation requirement will be according to the university’s rule and regulation. Thus, a student enrolled in the BSc Medical Laboratory Science program is eligible for graduation if and only if he/she:

Has taken all the required modules for the program and obtained a minimum CGPA of 00
Student should be able to pass comprehensive exam of the department/school, both in theory and practice before graduation.
Has not scored “F” grade in any module, should not score less than “C” grade in any core module and should not score less than “C-” grade for any supportive module.
A student shall score at least “C-” for any supportive modules
Has carried out a student research project on a selected and agreed topic of research problem and scored a minimum of “C” grade in his/her thesis
Pass successfully the comprehensive exam.

The minimum passing mark for the Comprehensive exam (Internal plus external) is 50%. If a student failed to score the above-mentioned result, he or she should be delayed for three months. During this period the student will be attached to hospital laboratories for further practice and/or be given an assignment and re-evaluated. The evaluation shall be consisted of hospital attachment evaluation (40%), written examination (40%) and oral examination (internal examination) (20%). This should be conducted until competency is ascertained

Degree nomenclature

The degree to be awarded to the students after completion of the program will bear the following name:

English version: “Bachelor of Science Degree in Medical Laboratory Sciences”

Amharic version: “የሳይንስ ባችለር ዲግሪ በህክምና ላቦራቶሪ ሳይንስ”

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