Bachelor of Laboratory Medicine

DOMESTIC APPLICANTS PLEASE NOTE: The first year (only) of this course can also be studied in Hobart by domestic applicants. When applying to the course only Launceston is available, but once you have accepted your offer you can enrol in units delivered in Hobart or Launceston. If you would like to discuss, please enquire now.

Laboratory Medicine is at the very heart of healthcare, providing vital results that assist in the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of disease.

The Bachelor of Laboratory Medicine is the perfect degree to prepare you for a career in specialised medical or pathology laboratories. Your studies will build foundation knowledge in chemistry, anatomy, physiology and biochemistry. Then you’ll gain knowledge and a variety of practical laboratory skills in clinical chemistry, haematology, blood transfusion science, microbiology, histopathology, human molecular biology, immunology and more.

In addition to helping you develop a breadth of laboratory medicine related knowledge, we prepares you for your future career by including hands-on laboratory experience right from first year. These experiences increases throughout your studies until, in third year, each unit contains an average of three hours of practical laboratory experience per week.

The three and half year course culminates with a seventh semester of clinical placement in an accredited laboratory in Australia. This clinical placement is undertaken off campus in an accredited diagnostic pathology laboratory. There, you’ll further develop your practical laboratory skills and contribute to patient care via the provision of laboratory results.

With the knowledge and practical skills developed in this course, you'll be ready to work in diagnostic pathology or medical research laboratories in Australia or around the world, and start making your own contributions to the medical science field.