BIOPRA2 Practical and Employable Skills Course description

Portfolio assessment subject to the following requirements:

• 2 individual assignments
• 1 group project (2-5 students)

Each of the three;submissions consists of program code and a short report of 3-5 pages.

The portfolio will be given one final grade. All parts of the portfolio must be evaluated to pass in order to pass the exam.The exam result can be appealed.

In the event of resit and rescheduled exams, another exam form may also be used or a new assignment given with a new deadline. If oral exams are used, the result cannot be appealed.

All.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student is capable of

• describing how laboratory activities at the practical training institution are significant to the health service and discussing the medical laboratory technician's professional role
• explaining the principles of a selection of analyses and investigations performed at the practical training institution
• describing the relevant quality assurance systems and discussing the responsibilities and duties of medical laboratory technicians in quality assurance work
• describing the purpose of and systematics relating to improvement projects
• describing the legal basis of medical laboratory activities

Skills

The student is capable of

• performing relevant laboratory analyses and investigations in accordance with regulations
• mastering a selection of medical laboratory science tasks at the practical training institution
• assessing the reliability and medical probability of laboratory results
• documenting his/her own laboratory work
• following the framework for the content of and how to write assignments
• demonstrating careful use of referencing and use of sources

General competence

The student is capable of

• providing professional justifications, asking critical questions and seeing a case from more than one perspective
• complying with laws and regulations governing the field

One internal examiner. External examiners are used regularly.

The course builds up on programming.

Practical training

• Assessment content: Criteria for practical training
• Form of assessment: Midway and final assessment

Exam

Practical training must be passed in order to take the exam.

• Exam content: The learning outcomes
• Exam form: Individual home exam, 2,500-3,500 words

All

Pass/fail

Practical training

• The midway and final assessments are made by the practical training supervisor and the contact lecturer at OsloMet. The final decision on whether the course is approved or not is made by the university college.

Exam

• All answer papers are assessed by two internal examiners. An external examiner contributes to the preparation of the question papers and assessment criteria.