Head of Unit: Ghimja Fessahaye
B.Sc., M.Sc., Addis Ababa University
Specialization: Parasitology
E-mail: ghimja@fhs.uoa.ed.er

 

Overview

The Department of Clinical Laboratory Science During offers a four-year undergraduate professional degree program. Following the completion of the freshman program, students acquire a broad theoretical knowledge and complement this knowledge with specific skills developed and practiced in laboratory experiments as well as in clinical laboratories. This theoretical background is supplemented with two summer practical field assignments (to be conducted at the end of 2nd and 3rd year) in hospitals or laboratories, during which students rotate among the specialty units.

Upon completion of the program, graduates will have acquired the knowledge and skills necessary to fulfill the job requirement of an entry-level Clinical Laboratory Scientist in a clinical diagnostic laboratory.

This degree allows graduates to work in a variety of laboratories encompassing the specialties: hematology - the study of blood; clinical biochemistry - the study of body chemistry; histology - the study of body tissues; microbiology - the study of microorganisms; serology - immunological diagnostics; and immunohematology - the study of blood banking and blood transfusion.

The broad training in many specialties will result in good employment opportunities in referral and regional hospitals, clinics as well as private laboratories. Other areas in which there will certainly be future employment opportunities include pharmaceutical companies, public health laboratories and research laboratories.

 

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