Upgrading and Continuing Lab-Education


Upgrading and Continuing Education


Medicine is the most dynamic of biological disciplines . so is also science of laboratory technology. While the basic principles remain unacurrent practice is undergoing exponential change when a lab technologist or health care professional completes  a course, receives his/ her diploma learning or need to learn does not stop there.

Reasons of upgrading education:

  • To improve confidence and competence of lab. Technologist.
  • To improve quality of lab. Technologist.
  • To learn new methods and procedures in laboratory science.
  • To make lab. Technologist life long learners.
  • To  produce skilled , educated lab. Technologists whose standards will be internationally accepted.
  • To reflect developments in the field of education,
  • To reflect changing needs of the country .
  • To make it clear that if you want to survive, you must be ready to undertake life long professional learning,

How to Upgrade Education:

  1. Improvement of facilities.e,g, New laboratory.Lastes scientific instrument etc.
  2. Sound curriculum development.
  3. Improvement of examination system. Role of the laboratory in the health care and training of laboratory personnel.

Why continuing education:

  • Inadequate Training for fundamental tasks.
  • Insufficient knowledge base.
  • Learning and training improves professional skills.
  • Continuing education gives opportunity for life long learning and professional updating.
  • It gives job satisfaction and also meet the employer’s standards.