Medical Technology

• Definition of Curriculum

  • Learning standards, learning objectives and outcomes that should be achieved
  • knowledge and skills to learn
  • means, materials, resources, and process
  • to process to gauge/measure student learning
• Medical Technology Curriculum

  Commission on Higher Education May 18,1994

  Republic Act No. 7722

  Under President Fidel Valdez Ramos
• Technical Committee for Medical Technology Education (TCMTE)

  • composed of leading academicians and practitioners
  • sets the standards among institutions offering BSMT.MLS and in monitoring and evaluating them
• BSMT

  • An allied health program
  • 4 year program 3 years og GE and prof courses and 1 year internship training
• CHED MEMORANDUM ORDER (CMO) N0.13 OF 2017

  • Contains goals, programs, outcomes, performance indicators
  • 1 unit = 1 hour
  • 3 units = 3 hours/week
  • 54h/sem = 18 weeks
• GE (General Education)

  • Aim to develop humane individuals that have a deeper sense of self and acceptance of others.
  • aim to develop foundational knowledge, skills values, and habits necessary
• Principles of Medical Laboratory Science 1

  • curicculum, practice of the profession, clinical lab, continuing prof. edu.,biosafety, practices and waste management
• pmls 2

  • pHLEBOTOMY
  • Study of pre analytic, analytical and post analytical variables
• Community and Public Health for MT

  • The promotion of community,public, and environmental health and the immersion and interaction of students
  • Human ecology, demography and epidemiology
• Cytogenetics

  • analysis of nuclei acids and their application to medical science
  • Concepts and principles of hereditary and inheritance
  • abnormalities and genetic disorders
• Human histology

  Microscopic Identificaition and differentation of cells

  study of fundamentals of cells, tissues, and organs
• Histopathologic Techniques with cytology 


  Basic concepts and principles of disease processes, etiology, and the development of anatomic, microscopic structures, characteristics, differences and functions
• Clinical Parasitology 


  Pathophysiology, epidemiology, life cycle, prevention and control and the identification of the ova and adult worms

  study of animal parasites in human and their medical significance
• Clinical Bacteriology

  Study of morphology abd physiology

  Collection if specimen and the isolation and identification of bacteria
• Immunohematology and blood bank


  inheretance, characterization and laboratory identification of red cells antigens and their corresponding antibodies.

  The app of these antigens and other antibodies is transfusion medicine and reactions work up

  ABO and Rh typing, blood donations
• Mycology and Virology 


  Fungi viruses as agents of disease
• Laboratory Management 


  planning organizing staffing directing and controlling as applied in clinical lab setting
• Medical Technology Laws and Bioethics

  Various administrative orders, and other approved legal documents

  Study Ethics as applied to health and health care delivery and to human life in general
• Hematology 1

  Concepts of blood as a tissue

  Formation of cells, lab assays, correlation with pathologic conditions

  bone marrow studies

  CBC , Hematocrit blood test, platelet count, fragility test,esr
• Hematology 2

  Conecpts and principles of hemostasis, and abnormalities involving RBC, WBC and platelets

  Lab identification of blood cells abnormalities, quantitative measurement of coagulation factors, and disease correlation are emphasized

  coagulation factor test, special stain techniques, instrumentation
• Clinical Microscopy 


  Study of urine and other body fluids excluding blood

  Formation, lab analysis,disease

  routine anylsis

  special urine chem

  pregnancy test
• Clinical Internship

  4th year students

  6 months or 1 year rotation in clinical lab ched accredited

  32 h/week duty not exceeding a total of 16664h in 1 year
• Licensure Examintaion

  Qualified MT

  Professional Regulation Comission (PRC)

  Professional Regulatory Board for MT/MLS under the prc
• Exams on march and august/september

  Republic Act 5527
• Exam Course Weights

  Clinical Chem - 20%

  Microbio ad Parasito - 20%

  Hematology _ 20%

  Bloodbank, Serology, Immuni and Sero - 20%

  Clinical Microscopy - 10%

  Histo[athologic Tchq - 10%
• Passing requirements

  • Gen. Average - 75% and above
  • No 50% in any major courses
  • Pass in at least 60% of the courses computed
  • 21 and above will be given certificate and prc card mt license
  • after 3 failed attempts the examiner should take a refresher before the 4th attempt
  • Gen ave of 70%-74% qualify for Med Lab Technician