The Bachelor of Science in Laboratory Sciences

Program philosophy

The main philosophy of compiling this curriculum is to train expert human resources in the field of laboratory sciences based on defined and specific professional duties in society in a way that includes the basic principles of education and training, which includes personality development, increasing thinking power and professional competence, and creating continuous learning skills in graduates to provide desirable laboratory services.

Mission of the Educational Program in Training Human Resources

The main mission of the Laboratory Sciences major is to train individuals who can perform various tests on blood or other body fluids and tissues in clinical laboratories of hospitals and health centers with the specialized knowledge they have learned and by using complex electronic devices and numerous methods.

The information and results obtained from these tests help the doctor in diagnosis of diseases, the treatment process, and maintaining the health of the community. Since this field is constantly changing and developing, graduates of this field must be trained in a way that they have sufficient knowledge and skills to adapt to new technologies.

The educational program's outlook for human resource training

Over the past few decades, clinical and health laboratories have transformed from a small sector with a few simple devices and traditional methods of chemical physics into large centers with highly advanced equipment and numerous branches. These dramatic and rapid changes require employees who, in addition to being equipped with modern knowledge, are able to use complex electronic and computer equipment and devices and perform new diagnostic and molecular methods. Therefore, the job market outlook for skilled and proficient laboratory science experts is very clear and visible in the current and future context of developing clinical and health laboratories and factories and companies producing and distributing laboratory materials and equipment.

General Objectives

The goal of the Bachelor of Laboratory Science educational program is to train students to provide laboratory services. In this program, students are given the necessary general and specialized training so that, in addition to having an adequate understanding of man, the culture that governs him and his surrounding environment, they can also perform basic and routine tests in health and clinical laboratories.

Goals for 2025

• Attracting faculty members
• Setting up a subspecialty anemia clinic
• Increasing the number of research papers published by the department’s faculty members and students
• Increasing the quality of education
• Increasing the participation of department professors in faculty empowerment workshops
• Expanding the workshops held by the department’s professors
• Expanding the educational seminars held by the department’s professors

The role of graduates

In addition to the personality development and scientific thinking that undergraduate students of the Laboratory Sciences program acquire during their education, they will be able to perform clinical research and related services in the following centers as experts:

1- Clinical laboratories of public and private hospitals

2- Laboratories of health centers

3- Private medical diagnostic laboratories

4- Research and educational institutes and centers

5- Factories producing laboratory equipment and materials

6- Companies distributing biological and laboratory products

7- Forensic medicine laboratories

8- Blood transfusion organization laboratories.

Graduates' professional duties

Laboratory science experts will employ various types of equipment and laboratory methods to perform laboratory services. These methods include microscopic studies, molecular detection methods, various chemical and immunological analysis methods, and bacteriological identification.

These individuals not only perform various tests, but also ensure the importance and validity of the data obtained by repeating the tests and using various quality control methods and consulting with physicians and other health care personnel. The supervision of laboratory science experts is the responsibility of these individuals.

Program implementation strategies

The undergraduate curriculum of the Laboratory Science program has been developed in such a way that it has the following strategies:

1- To meet the clinical laboratory services needed by the community.

2- To provide the laboratory services needed by the country's health centers that are necessary for prevention and health maintenance.

3- To use new principles and techniques of teaching and learning in the theoretical-practical field and internship courses.

4- Graduates should be able to cover the laboratory services needed by society in various educational, research, service, and production fields.

5- Given the rapid and continuous changes in laboratory methods, graduates of this field should have the ability to adapt to new technologies.

Academic Future

Allowed Majors with a Bachelor of Laboratory Sciences Degree:

Hematology-Blood Transfusion Sciences, Parasitology, Immunology, Clinical Biochemistry, Medical Biotechnology, Medical Nanotechnology, Human Genetics, Toxicology, Medical Mycology, Microbiology, Medical Virology, etc.

Career Future

Recruitment in universities and scientific centers as an expert, employment in medical laboratories, employment in research centers, employment in blood transfusion organizations, registration of knowledge-based companies, engagement in the field of production of laboratory equipment and kits, etc.

Strategic plans

A) Strategic and operational plans of the department in the field of education

• Improving the department's educational activities in order to improve the quality of education in line with standards
• Improving virtual education and the use of virtual education methods by professors
• Using blended learning

• Preparing logbooks and internship evaluation forms based on the new syllabus
• Holding skill workshops required for students
• Holding skill workshops required for professors
• Holding workshops and seminars related to the department by professors and postgraduate students of the department
• Providing laboratory diagnosis services
• Monitoring the regular holding of theoretical, practical and internship classes for students
• Evaluating educational programs and curricula as well as monitoring the good performance of faculty members and improving the evaluation forms of the department's experts
• Following up on students' educational problems
• Attracting international students
• Laying the groundwork for using new educational methods
• Efforts to increase the quality of education and, as a result, increase the acceptance of the department's students at higher educational levels
• Efforts to encourage and persuade students to participate in various national and international exams and competitions, including Olympiads

B) Strategic and operational plans of the department in the field of research

• Developing a regular program for presenting research projects by faculty members and graduate students of the department
• Establishing scientific communication with clinical and educational research centers in the university or outside the university in order to utilize the scientific potential of professors to present joint and practical research projects
• Strengthening interdisciplinary communication with different departments in the university
• Monitoring the activities of the department's research council and evaluating the research projects of the department's professors
• Presenting industry-related research projects and providing opportunities for cooperation with the industry
• Implementing innovative, technological, and knowledge-based research projects

C) Strategic and operational plans of the department in the field of logistics and support

• Efforts to attract efficient and committed faculty members
• Efforts to attract international students
• Efforts to attract fellowship students in laboratory sciences
• Efforts to attract doctoral students in laboratory sciences from undergraduate level
• Efforts to develop educational and research equipment and space
• Efforts to establish a hematology research center
• Efforts to update and equip the department's laboratories

D) Department strategic and operational plans in the cultural field

• Efforts to improve the welfare facilities of students and department’s members
• Efforts to hold meetings and courses of synergy and reflection for students and department’s members in cooperation with EDO, EDC, the Cultural Office, and the university leadership body
• Holding counseling sessions for students
• Following up on requests and problems of students and department’s members