Presentation
Course types
- Introduction to research
- Professional specialisation
Credits
60 (long-degree graduates) and 120 (short-degree graduates).
Students with a degree in natural and health sciences equivalent to 240 credits are required to take 60 credits. The remaining students with 180 credits will be required to take a compulsory levelling module of 60 credits, in order to take the master credits (60 credits).
Languages
Spanish and English
Places
20
Objectives
- To acquire knowledge competencies
- To familiarise participants with the functioning, task distribution and personnel responsibilities in the clinical analysis laboratory within the healthcare environment (private clinical laboratories or hospitals and healthcare institutions).
- To study biological processes in clinical laboratories.
- To learn the mechanisms by which an organism maintains homeostasis; the causes of biological variation and physiopathology associated with analytical tests that are routinely carried out in clinical laboratories.
- To familiarise participants with analytical methodology, diagnostic indication and selection as well as with the sources of analytical error.
- To assess test results and their clinical interpretation.
- To acquire methodological competencies
- To formulate working hypotheses from existing literature and previous experiments.
- To design and carry out experiments. To plan and learn how to use appropriate experimental and computing tools.
- To learn the dynamics of working in teams.
- To learn the basics of communication.
- To apply information search know-how to a real situation.
- To learn how to apply decision making to specific situations.
- To acquire attitudinal competencies
- To establish initial contact with the world of clinical laboratories and the healthcare field, as well as with the world of research.
- To learn the ethical principles of common work procedures.
- To learn the principles of company culture and research.
Contents
Optional modules
Genes and Cell Functioning, Genomes and Systems, Cellular Communication, Model Organisms in Biomedicine, Bioinformatics, Scientific Communication, Epidemiology, and Bioinformatics.
Specific compulsory module
Clinical Microbiology and Parasitology, Environmental Analyses, Biochemistry, Immunology, Clinical Haematology and Genetics, Forensic Genetics and Genetic Counselling, and Assisted Reproduction Techniques.
Practical training
The master finishes with a practical training period which consists of a supervised internship in a clinical laboratory to carry out a research project related to laboratory techniques and their clinical interpretation.
Specific entry requirements
A university degree, preferably in the natural and health sciences.
Doctorate you can opt for on finishing the master
Doctorate in Health and Life Sciences
Calendar and time schedule
From September to December 2009. The internship will be from January to June 2010.
From 11.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m., Monday to Friday. On some Fridays classes may be from 9.30 a.m. to 3.00 p.m.
Location
Pompeu Fabra University
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Dr. Aiguader, 80. 08003 Barcelona