Biomedical Laboratory Sciences

Introduction

Through our Degree in Biomedical Laboratory Science and its application to health care, you will acquire sold knowledge in a wide range of social, exact, biological and medical sciences. These will act as a base for acquiring know-how that will allow you to understand the multidisciplinary importance of the laboratory in areas such as screening, diagnostics and monitoring specific disease conditions; pathophysiology and disease epidemiology; selecting the appropriate statistical techniques that will allow you to have a valid interpretation of the test results, conducting research projects applied to health and forensic science; develop new disease diagnostic and prevention methods; knowledge of the code of good laboratory practice, including aspects relating to health, safety, ethics and legal affairs.

With this Undergraduate Degree in Biomedical Laboratory Science you will have the necessary training to practice in the field of Medical Tests and Public Health and Pathologic, Cytologic, and Thanatological Anatomy. We therefore expect that the qualifications acquired in the referred to areas will make it easier for future professionals to have access to a broader range of jobs, whether at national or international level.

If you want a degree that allows you to alternate two professional careers, then the Undergraduate Degree in Biomedical Laboratory Science is the right choice for you!

What makes us unique

• Guaranteed internships in real context, to a total of 1620 hours of on-the-job training, at benchmark hospitals and laboratories
• Large, modern and well-equipped laboratories, with information systems, automated equipment and other high-tech laboratory equipment.
• A young teaching body, qualified, updated with regard to what’s new in laboratorial developments and techniques and motivated to teach you.
• The possibility of exchanges at foreign universities, in particular through the Erasmus program.
• Taking part in several conferences, congresses and seminars that will keep you up to date with the most recent trends in several areas.
• A top-quality University Residence on campus, with numerous amenities on offer, such as a swimming pool, which ensures your well-being and safety, as if you were in your own home.
• An excellent academic environment, that is stimulating and active and includes teachers, researchers, professionals and students alike! You will attend parties, concerts, academic nights out and other initiatives organised by the Egas Moniz Student Associations, “Tunas” Groups and choir. You will also be able to practice several sports, whether at the gym or the playing field we have on offer for you.
• The privileged location of our campus, in Almada, 15 minutes from Lisbon and Costa de Caparica, with excellent accessibility (subway, train and bus).

Career Prospects and others

Once you complete your course you will be able to:

• Obtain the recognition of the professional title, given by the competent services of the Health Ministry through the issuance of a professional certificate;
• Work as Clinical Analysis and Public Health Technician and Pathological, Thanatological and Cytological Anatomy Technician, under the terms of Dispatch no. 9409/2014 of July 10, 2014.
• Work in public and private hospitals; clinical analysis laboratories of the national health service; laboratories of pathological and cytological anatomy; public health laboratories; food and chemical industry; histocompatibility, hemotherapy and genetics laboratories; legal medicine institutes; forensic tanatology laboratories; research laboratories and veterinary medicine labs.
• Work as a researcher and/or teaching
• Continue your studies and obtain specialization in Molecular Biology, Forensic Microbiology and Toxicology, among other areas.

More information

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• 🖨 (+351) 212 946 733
• 🖥 secretaria@egasmoniz.edu.pt