Medical Labs Department Concludes 1st Part of 1st Semester Field Training Program

The senior students of Medical Lab Department at Faculty of Medical Sciences have concluded implementing the 1^st part of the training plan scheduled for the 1^st semester of the academic year 2020/2021. The program included field training in a number of hospitals and medical labs.

Lasting for ten weeks, the training program was carried out in several health centers, namely: the National Center for Blood Transplantation and Research, the Central Lab, and 48 Typical Hospital. The trainees were throughout overseen and evaluated by the field training supervisor at Al-Nasser University in addition to training officials at the respective centers.

At the training centers, the students practiced the work mechanism at each section, how to use the various devices, the devices’ specific functions, and samples inputting and setup. At the reception section of the National Center for Blood Transplantation and Research, the trainees learnt the safe serial steps by which: the blood-donors are subject to various fitness checkups, permanent as well as temporary donation deterrents, the suitable time of blood withdrawal from the donors with temporary deterrents, the safe and proper blood taking, and transplanting the blood ingredients into patients as prescribed by the physician.

At the blood content segregation section of the NCBTR, the students were trained on how to properly segregate the blood components including: red cells, platelet, frozen fresh plasma, albumen, and Rh factors. Each component is required by certain type of patients according to their disease and blood needs.

At microbiology section of 48 Hospital, the students were trained on the latest technologies of disease specimen culturing and how the results are authentically displayed. They also learnt the proper mechanism of safe and genuine diagnosis in addition to differentiating between bacterial and fungal types with the help of the precise matching dye.

At the microbiology section of the Central Lab, they were trained on the various skills of bacteria and fungus culturing where each specimen is given its own cultivation environment since certain types of bacteria grow in particular climate.

At the reception of the Central Lab, the students were trained on the proper methods of blood withdrawal after doing the necessary fitness checkups for donors in addition to taking the proper precautions and medications in emergency cases when the donors suffer from complications.

According to Dr. Mukhtar Ezzumor (Head of Medical Labs Department), the field training is part and parcel of the program’s syllabus. It improves the students’ practical skills and professional experience so as to go in line with the theoretical classes they study.

For his part, Dr. Isam Elqadasi (the Field Training Superintendent at FMS) pointed out that getting acquainted with the centers’ variable sections, the latest technologies they are equipped with, and the different checkups they conduct make students clear about the nature of their future career help them prove their merit.

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