Graduates in Biomedical Laboratory Techniques are the health professionals who are responsible, within the laboratory structures, for the correct fulfillment of the analytical procedures and for their work; they carry out their own work activity with professional – technical autonomy, in direct collaboration with the graduate personnel of the laboratory, who are in charge of the various respective operational responsibilities. The first level Bachelor of Science Degree in Biomedical Laboratory Techniques (SNT / 3-Degree Class in Technical Health Professions) is aimed at training healthcare professionals who are entrusted with the duties set forth by the D. M. of the Ministry of Health n. 745 of 26th September 1994, and subsequent amendments and additions, and which must hold the following qualifications: background of scientific and theoretical – practical competence necessary to be qualified to practice the profession of Biomedical Laboratory Sanitary Technician and of the methodology and culture necessary for the practice of constant teaching, as well as a level of professional, decision-making and operational autonomy deriving from a theoretical and practical training that also includes the acquisition of behavioral skills and that is achieved in the same specific work context, so as to ensure, at the end of the training course, full mastery of all the necessary skills and their immediate spending at the workplace;

• ability to carry out laboratory analysis and research activities, related to biomedical and biotechnological analyses and in particular biochemistry, clinical biochemistry, microbiology and virology, drug-toxicology, immunology, clinical pathology, hematology, cytology and histopathology, medical genetics, transfusion medicine.
• ability to check and verify the correct operation of the equipment used
• ability to correctly fulfil analytical procedures and of their own work, within the scope of the respective functions, by applying work protocols.
• ability to collaborate with the various professional figures in group health activities
• ability to contribute to the training of support staff and to contribute directly to the updating of their professional profile
• ability to contribute to research, for the respective skills.
• ability to apply, in professional decisions, also the principles of health economics, to the benefit of the community.

The objective is to train new graduates with high theoretical and practical knowledge of innovative methodologies, so as to make them more attractive in specific work environments. Graduates will be able to access advanced training courses, first level master’s degrees and master’s degrees, as per the relevant announcements of selections.

Professional opportunities

Graduates in Biomedical Laboratory Techniques may find work opportunities either as an employee in public laboratory facilities (Hospitals, University Polyclinics, Research Institutes, Zoo-prophylactic Institutes and others) or private (private analyses laboratories and others),or as solo practitioners

Types of didactic and educational activities

Formal didactics This didactic form includes: – lectures: dealing with one specific topic that is identified by a title and performed by a teacher with the help of computing and/or multimedia supports based on a predefined calendar and given to students enrolled to a specific course year and divided into small groups; – seminars: didactic activities with the same characteristics as lectures but carried out contemporarily by many teachers with different competences and, as such, noted in the lesson registers in each one of them. Non formal didactics It deals with interactive didactic activities aimed at small groups of students and coordinated by a tutor whose task is that of facilitating the students in the acquisition of knowledge, abilities and behavioral models. Learning mainly occurs through stimuli deriving from problem solving and the use of methodological skills needed to resolve them and taking decisions as well as through the direct and personal use of actions (gesture and relational) in practical exercises and/or attending clinical departments, surgeries, territorial facilities and research laboratories. A) Teaching courses. The integrated teaching courses are held by one or more teachers in function to the specific objectives assigned to the course. The specific objectives of the individual courses that are contained in the exam programs and their programming are proposed annually by the course teachers within the start date of the enrolments for the new academic year. B) Professional activities. During the three year degree course, the student is required to acquire the professional specifications in the nursing field by carrying out internships in facilities identified by the degree course council (CCL) and in the defined periods. The internship can also be done in developing countries. C) Elective activities. The degree course council organizes the offer of elective didactic activities that are created with lectures, seminars, interactive courses with small groups among which the student is able to exercise their own personal option until achieving an overall number of 6 credits. Each student autonomously chooses the elective activities among the didactics supplied.