Essential laboratory techniques
Enable participants to acquire the first reflexes needed to organise a workstation and to perform, under supervision, the fundamental procedures of the medical laboratory.
Learning the fundamental laboratory techniques: pipetting, volume preparation, mixing, centrifugation, aliquoting, workstation organisation and contamination prevention. Participants carry out procedures under direct supervision, using authorised, anonymised biological specimens.
- Organise and secure a workstation
- Identify and choose the appropriate small equipment
- Read and follow a work instruction
- Set and use a micropipette correctly
- Perform pipetting and a simple dilution
- Balance and use a centrifuge
- Separate, aliquot, identify and trace a specimen
- Perform a simple microscopic examination
- Clean the workstation and restore it to order
- Recognise your limits and ask for supervision
The detailed programme for this workshop has not been published yet.
This programme is announced: its detailed content will be published shortly.
Certificate of enrolment or copy of diploma. No prior professional experience is required. Mandatory acceptance of the safety, confidentiality and immersion rules. A lab coat, closed-toe shoes and the specified protective equipment must be worn.
- Students in biomedical analysis
- Students in medical biology
- Students in biomedical or health sciences
- Laboratory trainees
- Recent graduates wishing to strengthen their first technical skills
This programme strengthens skills and employability; it is not an automatic promise of recruitment.
