Program Level Learning Outcomes

About the BMLSc

Program learning outcomes

What every BMLSc graduate can do by the time they finish — set out across six areas, from professional conduct to teaching others.

Program aim
Our aim

To develop students’ understanding of medical laboratory science — and to graduate globally-aware citizens who can contribute their expertise wherever they go.

BMLSc graduates are able to contribute their unique expertise to a clinical or foundational science research laboratory, or other settings.

The disciplines this covers
  • Human pathology
  • Cytology
  • Histology
  • Hematology
  • Clinical and histochemistry
  • Medical microbiology
  • Immunology
  • Biochemistry
  • Toxicology
  • Analytical chemistry
  • Microscopy
  • Genetics
  • Molecular biology
  • Tissue culture
  • Statistics
Learning outcomes

Six things every graduate takes with them

These outcomes describe what students can do by the end of the program. Jump to any one:

01

Professionalism

Graduates will be able to act professionally, demonstrated by their ability to:

  • Act responsibly in various laboratory science contexts
  • Recognize ethical implications of given situations
  • Behave with integrity
  • Communicate clearly and professionally with various parties through various means
  • Demonstrate compassion in their dealings with colleagues and the broader community
  • Protect confidentiality
  • Respect human diversity
  • Work safely
  • Recognize their own limitations and accept constructive feedback
02

Knowledge

By the end of the program, graduates will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate a coherent understanding of medical laboratory sciences, in order to contribute within clinical and/or foundational science research settings.
  2. Apply knowledge and skills of laboratory science to:
    • Accurately perform a variety of laboratory tests and analytical techniques
    • Research protocols and best practices
    • Adopt and improve protocols
    • Design and conduct simple experiments, and assist with more advanced experiments
    • Document, assess and interpret results
03

Critical thinking & problem solving

By the end of the program, graduates will be able to:

  1. Engage in evidence-based practice in their professional lives — making informed, well-reasoned decisions after evaluating diverse perspectives, ethical implications and evidence.
  2. Apply science information literacy skills to their work by:
    • Formulating good questions
    • Identifying, defining, and investigating problems
    • Gathering, synthesizing and evaluating different sources of information, and citing resources appropriately
    • Responding to questions and problems using evidence, while taking into account the limitations of that evidence
  3. Critically analyze scientific studies to evaluate the validity, reliability, generalizability and applicability of the methodology, results and conclusions.
04

Collaboration

By the end of the program, graduates will:

  • Value the importance of effective teamwork
  • Understand their personal role in creating the conditions for effective teamwork and productive collaborations — for example, giving and receiving constructive feedback
  • Show mutual respect in professional relationships
  • Demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively towards a common purpose
05

Curiosity & lifelong learning

By the end of the program, graduates will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning by assessing and reflecting upon their skills, limitations, values, aptitudes, interests, and overall competencies — and using this to create and implement a plan for ongoing professional and personal growth.
  2. Learn and work in a way that is motivated by curiosity and a desire to meet new challenges.
  3. Use their laboratory training, knowledge and research skills to explore and respond to medical science issues of various scales.
06

Teaching

By the end of the program, graduates will be able to:

  1. Help a variety of people — peers, junior and senior colleagues, family and community members — with different backgrounds and knowledge levels learn about medical and laboratory science: how the body works, what goes wrong, how to test for and treat disease, and current clinical innovations and controversies.
  2. Teach effectively by applying principles of adult learning: gauging the learners’ prior knowledge, setting appropriate learning objectives, using helpful teaching aids, focusing on learners’ needs, giving and incorporating constructive feedback, and listening carefully.
  3. Explain the role and relevance of medical laboratory science in society.