CCMAS Course Search

Principles and functions of Management. Personnel Management, Staff/Management relationships, stock control, record keeping. Management and administrative practices. Ecology of administration. Inventory and quality control Accounting and budgeting. Medico-legal aspects of medical laboratory Sciences. Professional ethics. Laboratory planning. Introduction to statistical procedures and biological research estimation, analysis of variance, tests of significance, goodness of fit, correlation and regression. Theory and practice of quality control – setting up quality control, various methods of quality control; factors affecting quality of output. Theory and practice of some common Analytical techniques including tissue processing, Microscopy and other basic Microbiological Equipment use, and principles of Histological Equipment, principles and working of haematological clinical chemistry Equipment; other applied techniques in the Medical Laboratory with emphasis on general Medical Laboratory Instrumentation. Practical Classes based on the above topics. General Review and appraisals of all subjects and practice of medical laboratory sciences to be examined as a common General paper.

Laboratory hazards and precautions. General laboratory glassware and apparatus-composition of glass, cleaning of glassware, standardised glassware, general glassware. Apparatus-autoclave, centrifuge. Production of chemically pure water, elementary microscopy; refraction, refractive index, principal focus of a converging lens, principal focus of a diverging lens, component of a microscope, setting up of a microscope, some do’s and do not’s of the microscope, micrometry, Dark ground microscope, Flourescent microscope. Collection and reporting of specimens, ward etiquette, postage of specimen, preparation of specimen containers, swabs, collection of autopsy and biopsy specimens.

Basic medical laboratory tests in Medical Microbiology/Parasitology including Virology, Mycology and Bacteriology, chemical pathology, Haematology and Blood Transfusion science and Histopathology. Such tests include detection of malaria parasites in blood and intestinal parasites in stool. Wet preparation and Gram staining of biological specimens. Preparation of media and inoculation of specimen. Determination of Hb, PCV and processing of blood samples for Haematology and blood Transfusion examinations. Screening of blood donors and Determination of ABO and Rhesus blood groups. Urinalysis, estimation of glucose, urea. Processing of Histopathology specimens including fixation, staining and cutting of tissues.

Conduct of complex and intellectually tasking medical laboratory tests independently in the specific area of specialisation. Organisation and leadership in the administration of the laboratory. Coordination with other professionals that utilise laboratory services. Innovative technologies like molecular biology techniques e.g PCR, antigen/antibody serological assays among others.

Iron metabolism, folate and B2 metabolism. Nomenclature, classification and investigation of common haemoglobinopathies, haemolytic anaemias, myeloproliferative disorders, lymphoproliferative disorders, haemostasis and disorders of haemostasis; investigation of bleeding disorders. Bone marrow. Practical classes.

Anaemias, Disorders of Iron metabolism, vitamin B12 and Folate deficiencies, Haemochromatosis and related storage disorders; Radioisotopes in Haematology; Automation in Haematology, Haemoglobinopathies. Cytochemical procedures, Lymphocyte Transformation Tests. Myelomatosis and order paraproteinemia. Test. Advanced Techniques.

DNA – demonstration by Feulgen techniques. Silver impregnation methods. Genes and genetic code. Tissue culture techniques; chromosome analysis. Autoradiography – Definition and principle of organisation of a medical museum. Methods of colour maintenance. Fixation and storage of museum specimens. Special museum techniques such as Dawson’s Method. Principle of Photography Preparation of stained sections for micro photography. Preparation of specimens for preparation of stained sections for micro photography. Cytological normal cells. Histology of tissues. Atypical and malignant cells. Collection of cytological smears and processing and screening. Principles of general pathology. Systemic pathology. Gastrointestinal tract. Urogenital, cutaneous. Principle of Electron microscopy materials for electron microscopy. Respiratory – Tuberculosis. Nephropathy associated with infestations and infections. Embalming techniques and demonstrations and infections. Practical based on the topics.

Theory and Methodology of Histochemistry – Chromaffin tissues, Schmols, Diazo and Perls and other histochemical techniques. Enzyme histochemistry: Acid and alkaline phosphatase, Oxidative enzymes. Genetic diseases. Karyotype abnormalities. Chromosome techniques. Tissue culture technique. Chromosome staining techniques Slide reporting.

Epidemiology of communicable diseases and disease spectrum and control. Aspects of public Health and Environmental Microbiology. Applied Microbiology; aspects of food and Industrial Microbiology. Diagnostic Microbiology. Vaccine production and immunization. Preservation of cultures and cultural methods. Pathogenic mechanisms of bacteria. Antibiotic assays and monitoring from body fluids and many others, anaerobiosis and methods. Phage typing; Research Methods and other techniques in Microbiology. Use of metabolic pathways in identification of bacteria, fluorescent antibody methods. Quality control and Instrumentation. Practical based on the above topics.

General characteristics of fungus diseases, types of mycoses and properties; opportunistic fungi Diagnosis and chemotherapy. Systemic mycoses (cryptococcosis, blastomycoses, histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycoses). Opportunistic mycoses (candidiasis, phycomycetes, aspergilloses and many others). subcutaneous mycoses. (such as maduro mycoses, sporotrichoses, chromoblastomycosis, and many others. Cutaneous mycoses – dermatophytosis. Superficial mycoses and many others. General properties, pathogenesis, diagnosis, epidemiology and control and recognition of fungi. Derma tropic and viscerotropic viruses. Smallpox, cowpox and vaccination; measles, rubella, chickenpox and shingles, Herpes viruses. Yellow fever; Lassa fever, Hep A and B, Influenza, Arbor viruses. The neurotropic viruses (rabies, poliomyelitis, encephalitis, lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, mumps viral transformation and types of tumours and viruses. Oncogene theory and many others. Viral gastroenteritis; Miscellaneous viruses.