Towards quality health care

With the increasing demand for quality health care, the need for quality health care professionals are on rise. With this view Padmashree Charitable trust decided to start Padmashree Institute of Medical Lab Technology in 2001. The institute’s motto is to provide quality Medical Laboratory Technologist who will raise the standards of quality Health Care. The BSc —Medical Laboratory Technology course offered by Padmashree Institute is affiliated to the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore. The institute had made progress by leaps and bounds and initiated some new concepts in the course curriculum of the B Sc — Medical Laboratory Technolog (MLT). It was the first institute to start the concept of workshop for MLT students to get them well acquainted in the practical aspects of day to day working modalities in the laboratory. The BMLT course is of three years and the programme consist of didactic and campus laboratory courses designed to progress the students through the basic subjects of the Medical Sciences like Anatomy, Physiology in the first year along with core Medical Lab Technology subjects like Microbiology and Pathology.

The programme provides them with entry-level knowledge and skills to perform clinical laboratory procedures in chemistry hematology, microbiology, immunohematology, immunology and clinical pathology. This training is enriched when students are given the opportunity to apply acquired knowledge and skills in a supervised working environment in the clinical laboratory postings in the laboratories and hospitals. Apart from this, the Institute keeping in mind the recent developments and also with the view to provide students added advantage in securing the jobs, has started add on course which will train the students in relevant topics which are not in the curriculum but are necessary when they go out to seek jobs. The Institute has an experienced faculty apart from the renowned personalities from the field of laboratory medicine. Apart from this there is a well-stoked library and access to digital library where students can access all the important journals related to their field.

There is a separate hostel for boys and girls. Some of the courses offered in the institute are:

•Bachelors and Masters programme in Physiotherapy

•BSc in Biotechnology

•Biochemistry

•Genetics

•M Sc in Biotechnology

•Microbiology

•B Sc and Diploma in Nursing

•Masters in Hospital Administration

•Bachelors in computer

Padmashree Insitute Of Medical Laboratory Technology, Bangalore