Advanced Diploma in Medical Laboratory

The Medical Laboratory Technology program prepares students to become integral members of the health care team as Registered Medical Laboratory Technologists. Through a blend of classroom learning, laboratory activities and clinical placements, students develop the knowledge, technical and critical thinking skills essential to safely and reliably collect and analyze patient samples in a fast-paced clinical environment. Analysis of samples provides timely and critical information to support diagnostic decisions and to evaluate the efficacy of treatment plans. Students in this high-tech health care program learn to operate sophisticated equipment to measure components of blood and body fluids through course work related to clinical chemistry and clinical hematology. They prepare cultures of collected micro-organisms for identification as part of course work in clinical microbiology, and prepare tissue samples for histological study. Through hands-on practice, students perform blood typing and cross-matching of blood to support blood transfusions within the clinical environment, learn to draw blood safely from patients, and develop other collecting techniques related to the profession.