Clinical Analysis and Public Health

Clinical Laboratory Sciences - Clinical Analysis and Public Health are a scientific area inherent to the clinical-laboratorial investigation. These require the acquisition of solid knowledge on a wide range of exact, biological, medical and social sciences, which sustain the understanding of the enormous importance of laboratory on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, monitoring and prevention of disease, physiopathology, epidemiology, identification of statistical techniques appropriate for an accurate interpretation of results, accomplishment of research projects, knowledge of laboratory good practices and also ethical and legal issues.

The Clinical Laboratory Sciences - Clinical Analysis and Public Health Course aims to major graduates with a professional profile characterized by a set of capabilities and skills which allows them to perform, develop, evaluate, correlate and ensure precision and accuracy of laboratory indicators. Basically, it intends to enable newly graduates to perform whether integrated into a multidisciplinary team in different areas of clinical analysis, namely, in the ambit of Clinical Biochemistry, Microbiology, Immunology, Hematology, Immuno-Hematology, Histocompatibility, Genetics and Public Health, or in the area of teaching and research.

EMPLOYABILITY

Graduates in Clinical Laboratory Sciences - Clinical Analysis and Public Health might perform their activity in different contexts, such as:

• National Health System Clinical Technician, private laboratories, public health, histocompatibility, genetics, research and industrial laboratories, among others;

• Teaching and research in Higher Education Institutions.

EUROPEAN PROGRAMMES

Higher School of Health Technology of Coimbra has started its participation in the current Lifelong Learning Programme/ERASMUS in 1996 through the mobility of radiology students. In the Course of Clinical Laboratory Sciences - Clinical Analysis and Public Health, this mobility started from 2002-03 by means of bilateral agreements with Universitá Dgli Studi Di Modena e Regio Emilia - Modena (Italy); University of Modena, Medical and Health Science Center - Debrecen (Hungary); Turku University of Applied Sciences - Turku (Finland) and Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen - Geel (Belgium).

Head of Department: Ana Maria de Figueiredo Valado

Erasmus Coordinator: Fernando José Figueiredo Agostinho D'Abreu Mendes

Study Plan