Module Code - Title:
BM4201
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LABORATORY SKILLS FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS
Year Last Offered:
N/A
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
The module will provide students with a fundamental knowledge of laboratory sciences that underpin medical education. The module also facilitates understanding of basic laboratory skills, safe laboratory practice and the handling and make up of medicines.
Syllabus:
The syllabus will cover a range of skills required within the biomedical laboratory. The following is indicative of the content to be covered in this syllabus:
• Principles of Scientific Design • Introduction to Laboratory Skills
•Health and Safety • Sample collection and handling • Essential practical techniques as relevant to clinical medicine and pharmacology • Introductory Pharmacology • Good Lab practice • Using software to analyse data
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
• Perform a range of arithmetical calculations necessary for laboratory work in the biomedical sciences;
• Evaluate essential practical techniques for healthcare sciences;
• Discuss key principles of experimentation including good laboratory practice and record keeping;
• Interpret laboratory results and their role as indicators in health and disease;
• Demonstrate the principles of laboratory safety, and Risk Assessment;
• Analyse data using software packages such as Microsoft Excel.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
NA
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
NA
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
The curriculum has been designed to foster self-directed learning among students and will ensure that advances in research inform the curriculum. This module will be delivered via Lectures and tutorials, computer-based simulations, patient data sets, online self-directed tutorials/quizzes and reflective reports. Students will be required to engage in 60 hours of learning input over 12 weeks. Learners will complete quizzes for each area to provide evidence of autonomous student learning and engagement. In engaging with the module appropriately, students will develop across the the following domains of the UL Graduate Attributes: Curious (knowledgeable and imaginative), Agile (independent) and Courageous (resilient).
The ethos across the curriculum is to ensure research led teaching. Module content will be constantly updated to incorporate new findings in the field of Biomedical Science.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
PRL Bonner (2022)
Basic bioscience laboratory techniques
, Wiley Blackwell
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BMMESUUFA - BACHELOR OF MEDICINE BACHELOR OF SURGERY
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Module Leader:
lucie.pollard@ul.ie