Apr 20,2023
Education program Bachelor of Medical Laboratory technology
EDUCATION PROGRAM
(Issued under Decision No: /QĐ-ĐHNCT 20
of the Rectorl of Nam Can Tho University)
Name of program: Fulltime
Level of education: University
Major of education: Medical Laboratory Technology
Code: 52720332
1. Educational objectives
1.1 General objective
Education of bachelor in Medical Laboratory Technology with basic scientific knowledge, specialized knowledge, and proficient practical skills, ability to work independently and creatively to solve specialized problems to serve required diagnosis and treatment; have professional ethics, high sense of responsibility, cautious and accurate manner; capable of self-study and scientific research for people's health care and protection.
1.2 Detail objective
1.2.1 About knowledge
- General knowledge
+ Apply knowledge of the revolutionary ideology and morality of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on taking care of people's health.
+ Apply information technology knowledge in patient service and scientific research.
+ Apply knowledge of foreign languages in communication and professional work.
+ Assess and analyze security and defense issues and be alert to hostile forces' anti-revolutionary plots.
- General medical knowledge
+ Apply basic scientific knowledge such as chemistry, biology, physics, and biophysics to explain pathological phenomena.
+ Analyze the phenomena, operating mechanisms, and operating principles of equipment for diagnosis and treatment.
+ Access to biological knowledge and modern medical and pharmaceutical techniques.
- General medical field knowledge
+ Apply essential knowledge of health sciences and the relationships between health and environmental and social factors.
+ Assess and analyze the relationship between health, disease, environment, and psycho-social factors.
- General medical knowledge of specialties
+ Understand the anatomy, structure, and function of the human body in normal and pathological states.
+ Assessment of changes in body states under normal and pathological conditions.
+ Apply basic knowledge to thoughtfully explain the pathological symptoms of the patient.
+ Analyze and synthesize symptoms and signs to diagnose medical conditions.
- Clinical knowledge to graduate
+ Having basic scientific knowledge, professional knowledge, and the ability to work independently and creatively to solve problems in the field of medical laboratory.
+ Knowledge of testing quality assurance and medical laboratory management to ensure the coordination and management of activities of a medical laboratory reasonably and effectively.
1.2.2 About skill
1.2.2.1 Professional skills
- Professional reasoning skills, problem-detection, and problem-solving
+ Detect symptoms of illness and health problems.
+ Specify and analyze the results of basic functional testing and techniques.
+ Diagnose common diseases.
+ Manage common diseases and emergency conditions.
- Ability of reasoning and solving problems
+ Formulate hypotheses about health and disease.
+ Assess and analyze health problems.
+ Propose solutions and solve health problems.
- Research and discovery skills
+ Ability to form research hypotheses.
+ Ability to collect information.
+ Ability to execute scientific research projects under the guidance of experts.
+ Ability to apply research results in practice.
- Systemic reasoning skills
+ Analyze the relationship between health and environmental, cultural, and socio-economic factors.
+ Identify priority health problems.
+ Analyze choices between problems and find solutions.
+ Having multi-dimensional analytical thinking on health and disease issues.
- Social context and external environment
+ Demonstrate the role and responsibility of the general practitioner towards society.
+ Meet the standards of society for the medical profession and general practitioner.
+ Assess development and global health issues in the profession.
- Organizational context
+ Analyze the characteristics and situation of the unit.
+ Create plan to develop the unit.
+ Build relationships with key partners.
- Applying knowledge in clinical practice
+ Apply and implement techniques and procedures in clinical practice.
+ Proficient in the use of equipment in the unit.
+ Discover new problems in the profession.
- Creative capacity, development, and ability to change in the profession.
+ Improve care and treatment techniques.
+ Updating scientific and technical advances at work.
+ Ability to work in different positions in the unit.
1.2.2.2 Soft skill
- Self-control skills
+ Organize work plan scientifically and reasonably
+ Quickly adapt to changing living and working environments.
+ Learning and self-study, lifelong self-study.
+ Analyze the qualities of colleagues to exchange and learn.
- Teamwork skill
+ Build and manage effective working groups.
+ Connect groups.
- Management and leadership skills
+ Organize and assign work in the unit.
+ Evaluate individual and collective activities.
+ Connect with key partners.
- Communication
+ Organize ideas and communication content.
+ Able to communicate in writing, via email/media
+ Excellent presentation skills.
+ Having interpersonal communication skills: consulting, health education for patients, exchanging and sharing with colleagues...
1.2.3 About attitude
- Personal ethics
+ Willing to face difficulties.
+ Perseverance, hard work, enthusiasm, and passion for creativity.
+ Empathize, and share with colleagues, and patients.
- Professional ethics
+ Dedication, dedication, honesty, and responsibility.
+ Professional working style.
+ Behavioral culture of doctors (12 medical ethics).
- Societal morality
+ Appreciate traditional medicine.
+ Comply with laws and guidelines and policies of the Party and State.
+ Preserving and promoting the image of a doctor in society
1.2.4 Job opportunities after graduation
After graduating, bachelors in medical laboratory technology can work in hospitals, medical facilities, medical and pharmaceutical training institutions, research institutes, and health science management agencies, organizations, and individuals. Government and non-governmental organizations:
- Treatment facilities: participating in professional work in laboratory department and management departments at public and private hospitals.
- Training institutions: lecturers of universities, colleges, and medical schools, training managers.
- Research institutes: experts in research institutes in the fields of health science, medicine, biomedicine, and medical technology.
- Regulatory agencies: specialists in health regulatory agencies. Specialists in state and non-governmental organizations.
Ability to learn to improve the level
After graduating, bachelors of medical laboratory technology can study level 1 specialization, level 2 specialization, Master of medical laboratory technology, and doctor of medical laboratory technology.
1.2.5 Foreign languages, Informatic Technology
- Use of foreign languages: English B1 equivalent to TOEIC 400.
- Informatics and information technology: proficiently use common software (STATA, EPI-INFO, SPSS...), Basic Informatics.
2. Graduation standards
2.1 Knowledge
- Having basic scientific knowledge, professional knowledge, and the ability to work independently and creatively to solve problems in the field of medical laboratory.
- Using the principles and mechanisms of common medical testing techniques in disease diagnosis.
- Have a scientific working method, and the ability to apply theory to professional work.
- Having basic knowledge to update scientific and technical advances and apply the performing professional activities of medical testing.
- Having knowledge about quality assurance and medical laboratory management to ensure the coordination and management of activities of a medical laboratory reasonably and effectively.
- Knowledge of laws and policies on care, protection, and improvement of people's health.
2.2 Skill
- Prepare a number of standard solutions, dyes, reagents, and media; to use reagent sets (Kit) for medical testing.
- Perform testing techniques for blood transfusion, hematology, biochemistry, microbiology, parasitology, immunology, cell, and pathology.
- Apply some specialized testing skills (molecular biology, immunology...) to perform medical testing procedures for medical examination and treatment.
- Perform medical tests in the community independently or in collaboration with colleagues.
- Apply the principles, principles, and procedures of operation, preservation, and maintenance of a number of specialized equipment, aseptic regulations, and regulations on the use of specialized chemicals and biological products in food. perform testing and manage the laboratory
- Implement quality assurance measures and check the quality of medical tests.
- Have the ability to do scientific research, participate in training in the field of medical testing, and learn to improve.
- Able to work independently.
2.3 Autonomy and responsibility
- Have professional ethics and communication skills.
- Humility, respect for colleagues, and good cooperation at work.
- Comply with the principles of ethics in testing including prudence, meticulousness, perseverance, honesty, objectivity, and confidentiality of testing information for patients, customers, and the community.
- Have a spirit of learning.
3. Knowledge of the whole course
136 credits (CD), not including the content of Physical Education and Defense Education
4. Enrollment candidate: High school graduate or equivalent, nationwide enrollment
5. Educational process, graduation conditions
Apply "Regulations on full-time university and college training according to the credit system" issued under Decision No.
6. Evolution methods
- Theory course: includes 03 grades on the 10/10 system, including the Diligence scale for 20%, the regular scale for 30%, and the final scale for 50%. The form of examination as prescribed for each subject is clearly stated in the detailed course outline.
- The practical, practical, and clinical practice module at hospitals and communities consists of a single grade scale with the exam format specified in the detailed course outline for each subject.
7. Program content
7.1 General educational medical knowledge
|
TT |
TÊN MÔN HỌC/HỌC PHẦN |
Total Credit |
|
|
|
LT |
PC |
|||
|
1 |
Philosophy |
2 |
2 |
|
|
2 |
Political Economy |
2 |
2 |
|
|
3 |
Science socialism |
1 |
1 |
|
|
4 |
Ho Chi Minh Thought |
2 |
2 |
|
|
5 |
Revolutionary line of the Communist Party of Vietnam |
3 |
3 |
|
|
6 |
General and Medical English |
12 |
12 |
|
|
7 |
Basic Informatics |
3 |
2 |
1 |
|
8 |
General law |
2 |
2 |
|
|
9 |
Physical education* |
3 |
|
3 |
|
10 |
Defense and security education* |
8 |
5 |
3 |
|
|
Total * |
27* |
26 |
1 |
* Excluding content of physical education and national defense and security education
7.2 Professional education knowledge
7.2.1 Basic medical knowledge
|
NO |
COURSE |
Total Credit |
|
|
|
TR |
PC |
|||
|
1 |
Probability-medical statistics |
3 |
3 |
|
|
2 |
General chemistry |
3 |
2 |
1 |
|
3 |
Biology and genetics |
3 |
2 |
1 |
|
4 |
General Molecular Biology |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
5 |
Methods of health science research |
2 |
2 |
|
|
6 |
Biophysics |
3 |
2 |
1 |
|
|
Total |
16 |
12 |
4 |
7.2.2 Medical knowledge
|
NO |
COURSE |
Total Credit |
|
|
|
TR |
PC |
|||
|
1 |
Anatomy |
3 |
2 |
1 |
|
2 |
Physiology |
3 |
2 |
1 |
|
3 |
Histology |
3 |
2 |
1 |
|
4 |
Pathophysiology and Immunology |
2 |
2 |
|
|
5 |
Pharmacology |
2 |
2 |
|
|
6 |
Basic Nursing and First Aid |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
7 |
Internal medicine Pathology |
2 |
2 |
|
|
8 |
Surgical Pathology |
2 |
2 |
|
|
9 |
Epidemiology |
2 |
2 |
|
|
10 |
Health organization & management |
2 |
2 |
|
|
11 |
Environment and health |
2 |
2 |
|
|
|
Total |
25 |
21 |
4 |
7.2.3 Laboratory knowledge
|
NO |
COURSE |
Total Credit |
|
|
|
TR |
PC |
|||
|
1 |
Basic Laboratory Technique |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
2 |
Biological safety |
2 |
2 |
0 |
|
3 |
Hematology 1 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
|
4 |
Hematology 2 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
|
5 |
Hematology coagulation - blood transfusion |
4 |
2 |
2 |
|
6 |
Biochemistry 1 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
|
7 |
Biochemistry 2 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
|
8 |
Biochemistry 3 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
|
9 |
Microbiology 1 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
10 |
Microbiology 2 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
|
11 |
Microbiology 3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
12 |
Microbiology 4 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
13 |
Parasitology 1 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
14 |
Parasitology 2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
15 |
Parasitology 3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
16 |
Cytology 1 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
17 |
Cytology 2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
18 |
Molecular Biomedical |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
19 |
Infectious control |
2 |
2 |
0 |
|
20 |
Laboratory quality management |
2 |
2 |
0 |
|
21 |
Clinical practice 1: Biochemistry |
4 |
|
4 |
|
22 |
Clinical practice 2: Hematology |
4 |
|
4 |
|
23 |
Clinical practice 3 Microbiology and Parasitology |
4 |
|
4 |
|
24 |
Clinical practice for graduation |
4 |
|
4 |
|
|
Total |
64 |
30 |
34 |
7.3 List of elective courses
|
NO |
COURSE |
Total Credit |
||
|
TR |
PC |
|||
|
|
Graduation Course |
4 |
|
4 |
|
Alternative Courses |
||||
|
1 |
Immunoassay |
2 |
2 |
0 |
|
2 |
Cytology (advanced) |
2 |
2 |
0 |
TEACHING PLAN
1st semester
|
NO |
Course name |
Total |
TR |
PC |
|||
|
CD |
Nb |
CD |
Nb |
CD |
Nb |
||
|
1 |
Marxist - Leninist philosophy |
2 |
30 |
2 |
30 |
|
|
|
2 |
General English 1 |
3 |
45 |
3 |
45 |
|
|
|
3 |
General Chemistry |
3 |
60 |
2 |
30 |
1 |
30 |
|
4 |
Biology and genetics |
3 |
60 |
2 |
30 |
1 |
30 |
|
5 |
Biophysics |
3 |
60 |
2 |
30 |
1 |
30 |
|
6 |
Defense and security education(*) |
8 |
240 |
|
|
8 |
240 |
|
7 |
Physical education 1 (*) |
1 |
30 |
|
|
1 |
30 |
|
Total |
14 |
255 |
11 |
165 |
3 |
90 |
|
2nd semester
|
NO |
Course name |
Total |
TR |
PC |
|||
|
CD |
Nb |
CD |
Nb |
CD |
Nb |
||
|
1 |
Political Economy |
2 |
30 |
2 |
30 |
|
|
|
2 |
General English 2 |
3 |
45 |
3 |
45 |
|
|
|
3 |
Basic nursing and first aid |
2 |
45 |
1 |
15 |
1 |
30 |
|
4 |
Medical Statistical Probability |
3 |
45 |
3 |
45 |
|
|
|
5 |
Anatomy 1 |
3 |
30 |
2 |
30 |
1 |
30 |
|
6 |
Basic Informatics |
3 |
60 |
2 |
30 |
1 |
30 |
|
7 |
Physical education 2 (*) |
1 |
30 |
|
|
1 |
30 |
|
8 |
Science socialism |
1 |
15 |
1 |
15 |
|
|
|
Total |
17 |
270 |
14 |
210 |
3 |
90 |
|
3rd semester
|
NO |
Course name |
Total |
TR |
PC |
|||
|
CD |
Nb |
CD |
Nb |
CD |
Nb |
||
|
1 |
General English 3 |
3 |
45 |
3 |
45 |
|
|
|
2 |
Ho Chi Minh Thought |
2 |
30 |
2 |
30 |
|
|
|
3 |
General law |
2 |
30 |
2 |
30 |
|
|
|
4 |
Environment and health |
2 |
30 |
2 |
30 |
|
|
|
5 |
Pathophysiology and Immunology |
2 |
30 |
2 |
30 |
|
|
|
6 |
Physiology |
3 |
60 |
2 |
30 |
1 |
30 |
|
7 |
Biological safety |
2 |
30 |
2 |
30 |
|
|
|
8 |
Basic testing techniques |
2 |
45 |
1 |
15 |
1 |
30 |
|
9 |
Physical education 3 (*) |
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
30 |
|
Total |
18 |
300 |
16 |
240 |
2 |
60 |
|
4th semester:
|
NO |
Course name |
Total |
TR |
PC |
|||
|
CD |
Nb |
CD |
Nb |
CD |
Nb |
||
|
1 |
Pharmacology |
2 |
30 |
2 |
30 |
|
|
|
2 |
Biochemistry 1 |
3 |
60 |
2 |
30 |
1 |
30 |
|
3 |
Internal medicine Pathology |
2 |
30 |
2 |
30 |
|
|
|
4 |
Surgical Pathology |
2 |
30 |
2 |
30 |
|
|
|
5 |
Histology and Embryology |
3 |
60 |
2 |
30 |
1 |
30 |
|
6 |
Epidemiology |
2 |
30 |
2 |
30 |
|
|
|
7 |
Microbiology 1 |
2 |
45 |
1 |
15 |
1 |
30 |
|
8 |
Medical English |
3 |
45 |
3 |
45 |
|
|
|
Total |
19 |
330 |
16 |
240 |
3 |
90 |
|
5th semester
|
NO |
Course name |
Total |
TR |
PC |
|||
|
CD |
Nb |
CD |
Nb |
CD |
Nb |
||
|
1 |
Revolutionary line of the Communist Party of Vietnam |
3 |
45 |
3 |
45 |
|
|
|
2 |
Health science research methods |
2 |
30 |
2 |
30 |
|
|
|
3 |
Biochemistry 2 |
3 |
60 |
2 |
30 |
1 |
30 |
|
4 |
Hematology 1 |
3 |
60 |
2 |
30 |
1 |
30 |
|
5 |
Microbiology 2 |
3 |
60 |
2 |
30 |
1 |
30 |
|
6 |
Parasitology 1 |
2 |
45 |
1 |
15 |
1 |
30 |
|
7 |
Quality Management Laboratory |
2 |
30 |
2 |
30 |
0 |
0 |
|
Total |
18 |
330 |
14 |
210 |
4 |
120 |
|
6th semester:
|
NO |
Course name |
Total |
TR |
PC |
|||
|
CD |
Nb |
CD |
Nb |
CD |
Nb |
||
|
1 |
Cytology 1 |
2 |
45 |
1 |
15 |
1 |
30 |
|
2 |
Hematology 2 |
3 |
60 |
2 |
30 |
1 |
30 |
|
3 |
Biochemistry 3 |
3 |
60 |
2 |
30 |
1 |
30 |
|
4 |
Microbiology 3 |
2 |
45 |
1 |
15 |
1 |
30 |
|
5 |
Parasitology 2 |
2 |
45 |
1 |
15 |
1 |
30 |
|
6 |
Molecular biology |
2 |
45 |
1 |
15 |
1 |
30 |
|
7 |
Clinical practice 1: Biochemistry* |
4 |
120 |
|
|
4 |
120 |
|
Total |
18 |
420 |
8 |
120 |
10 |
300 |
|
7th semester
|
NO |
Course name |
Total |
TR |
PC |
|||
|
CD |
Nb |
CD |
Nb |
CD |
Nb |
||
|
1 |
Health organization and management |
2 |
30 |
2 |
30 |
|
|
|
2 |
Cytology 2 |
2 |
45 |
1 |
15 |
1 |
30 |
|
3 |
Parasitology 3 |
2 |
45 |
1 |
15 |
1 |
30 |
|
4 |
Molecular Biomedical |
2 |
45 |
1 |
15 |
1 |
30 |
|
5 |
Hematology coagulation - blood transfusion |
4 |
90 |
2 |
30 |
2 |
60 |
|
6 |
Microbiology 4 |
2 |
45 |
1 |
15 |
1 |
30 |
|
7 |
Clinical practice 2: Hematology* |
4 |
120 |
|
|
4 |
120 |
|
Total |
18 |
390 |
10 |
150 |
8 |
240 |
|
8th semester
|
NO |
Course name |
Total |
TR |
PC |
|||
|
CD |
Nb |
CD |
Nb |
CD |
Nb |
||
|
1 |
Infectious control |
2 |
30 |
2 |
30 |
|
|
|
2 |
Graduation thesis or alternative course |
4 |
60 |
4 |
60 |
|
|
|
3 |
Clinical practice 3: Microbiology and Parasitology* |
4 |
120 |
|
|
4 |
120 |
|
4 |
Clinical practice for graduation |
4 |
120 |
|
|
4 |
120 |
|
Total |
14 |
330 |
6 |
90 |
8 |
240 |
|
8. Instructions for implementing the program
- Program:
+ The detailed training program of the Medical Laboratory Technology major includes 136 credits. The detailed implementation of the program and supervision of professional quality is directed by the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Health.
+ Compulsory program content: Nam Can Tho University directs the Faculty of Medicine to organize and teach the prescribed amount of knowledge.
+ Contents of supplementary knowledge program: Based on the addition of a number of courses in Medical Laboratory Technology and at the same time increasing the duration of some existing medical courses, related to many training disciplines but consider it beneficial to expand the operational capacity of students after graduation. On the basis of approved compulsory credits and approved supplementary knowledge credits, the Faculty of Medicine has compiled a detailed program of subjects and submitted them to the scientific training council and the President of Nam Can Tho University for promulgation for approval.
- Plan to arrange content and time budget:
+ The Faculty of Medicine actively arranges and adjusts the subjects of the semesters and must ensure the logic and systematicity of the training program in order for students to learn basic science, basic medicine preclinical, and preclinical before specialized courses. The Department of Training and Faculty of Medicine will arrange the program and implement it according to the approved detailed program.
- Clinical practice in the community:
+ Practice: Organize laboratories and practice on the basis of Medical Laboratory Techniques according to the standards of the Ministry of Health (medical construction equipment): Laboratory of biochemical and blood gas testing equipment; Department of Hematology and blood transfusion; Department of Microbiology - Parasitology: Department of Anatomy; Using physics and chemistry laboratories; biology; physiological anatomy.
+ Internship: after students have studied basic subjects and related majors. Medical centers and hospitals with testing departments are practical places to practice. The school has signed cooperation contracts with all district general hospitals in Can Tho city; specialized hospitals, hospitals in military health care; medical diagnosis centers, and clinics with function and equipment for diagnosis and treatment.
- Teaching/learning methods:
Appreciate the students' self-study: the lecturer guides the self-study method according to the characteristics of the subject.
Enhance audio-visual means, active teaching/learning methods
Ensure textbooks and references for students
Enhance the effectiveness of practical sessions in the laboratory, practice at medical and pharmaceutical facilities, and practice in the community by assigning lecturers to combine with part-time lecturers at the facility to monitor and supervise activities. of students, organize the final examination of each experimental technique, each professional operation procedure at the institution, and each unit of study.
- Test, exam
Apply the "Regulations on formal university and college training according to the credit system" issued under the Decision of the Nam Can Tho University
