A complete review of the latest techniques and working systems of the Clinical Analysis laboratory, with the most efficient teaching system and a program that is totally compatible with other commitments”

The clinical and biomedical laboratory is an indispensable tool for the field of medicine. Given the important contribution to society, the figure of the professional master’s degree specialist is increasingly in demand. There are certain professionals that can fill a role with these characteristics: doctors, technicians, biochemists and laboratory auxiliary technicians. Each of them requires either a university degree or vocational training. However, given the degree of specificity of a job position in the clinical analysis laboratory, additional specialized training is valued, and sometimes required, to complement the basic studies of the professionals.

With this professional master’s degree, students acquire the necessary skills to face the different tasks that arise in professional master’s degree laboratories, allowing them to differentiate themselves from other professionals.

Working in a clinical analysis laboratory is exciting and necessary. It is a job that is increasingly valued in health systems, for its diagnostic importance and as a tool for prevention in current medicine, which steers healthcare towards the personalization of treatments, known as "personalized medicine".

A standard laboratory has several departments: immunology, microbiology, biochemistry and hematology.

Specialist laboratories, where more specific and sophisticated studies are performed, require professionals to be specialized in the different techniques, machinery, instruments and procedures. In any of them, we must be aware of the legislation that accompanies these processes and the proper management of samples and results.

A compendium of in-depth knowledge that will lead you to excellence in your profession. 

With this professional master’s degree in Clinical Analysis, you will be able to combine a high intensity learning with your professional and personal life, achieving your goals in a simple and real way’’

This professional master’s degree in Clinical Analysis contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• The latest technology in online teaching software
• Highly visual teaching system, supported by graphic and schematic contents that are easy, to assimilate and understand
• Practical cases, presented by practising experts
• State-of-the-art interactive video systems
• Teaching supported by telepractice
• Continuous updating and recycling systems
• Autonomous learning: full compatibility with other occupations
• Practical exercises for self-evaluation and learning verification
• Support groups and educational synergies: questions to the expert, debate and knowledge forums
• Communication with the teacher and individual reflection work
• Availability of content from any device, fixed or portable, with an internet connection 
• Supplementary documentation databases are permanently available, even after the course 

A highly-skilled professional master’s degree that will allow you to become a highly competent professional working in the Clinical Analysis laboratory’’

The professors of the professional master’s degree in Clinical Analysis are highly qualified professionals, who are experts in teaching and who will help you understand the reality of the profession, with the most up-to-date knowledge of this sector. 

In this way, we ensure that we provide you with the up-to-date knowledge we are aiming for. A multidisciplinary team of professionals prepared and experienced in different environments, who will develop the theoretical knowledge in an efficient way, but, above all, will contribute to the course the practical knowledge derived from their own experience: one of the differential qualities of this program. 

This mastery of the subject is complemented by the effectiveness of the methodological design of this professional master’s degree in Clinical Analysis. It has been developed by a multidisciplinary team of experts, who integrate the latest advances in educational technology. In this way, you will be able to study with a range of comfortable and versatile multimedia tools that will give you the operability you need for your learning.  

The design of this program is based on Problem-Based Learning: an approach that conceives learning as a highly practical process. To achieve this remotely, we will use online learning: with the help of an innovative interactive video system and Learning from an Expert, you will be able to acquire the knowledge as if you were facing the scenario you are learning about at that moment. A concept that will allow you to integrate and consolidate your learning in a more realistic and permanent way. 

The learning of this professional master’s degree in Clinical Analysis is developed through the most effective educational methods in online teaching, guaranteeing that your efforts will lead to the best possible results"

Make the most of this opportunity to learn about the latest advances in this subject to apply it to your daily practice"

The objective of this program is to provide professionals working in the clinical analysis laboratory with the knowledge and skills that they need to carry out their activity, using the most advanced protocols and techniques available. Through a work approach that is totally adaptable to the student, this professional master’s degree will progressively lead them to acquire the skills that will propel them to a much higher professional level.  

Learn from the best, the techniques and procedures of work in Clinical Analysis and train yourself to work in the best laboratories in the sector’’

General objectives 

• Evaluate the ISO standards of a clinical laboratory 
• Demonstrate the importance of good safety and sanitary waste management
• Identify the need for a correct management of health documentation 
• Present the obligatory nature of quality control, in a clinical laboratory 
• Define the clinical indicators of analytical quality
• Identify clinical decision levels, within the reference intervals 
• Define the scientific method and its relationship to evidence-based medicine
• Analyze and carry out the instrumental techniques and sample collection processes that apply specifically to the clinical health analysis laboratory, as well as determine the fundamentals and correct handling of the necessary instruments
• Apply instrumental techniques to solve health analysis problems
• Generate specialized knowledge to carry out the tasks of a clinical analysis laboratory, regarding the implementation of new analytical methods and quality monitoring of those already implemented
• Define the procedures used in the clinical analysis laboratory, for the use of the different techniques, as well as for the collection of samples, and those aspects related to the validation, calibration, automation and processing of the information obtained, based on the procedures
• Analyze the molecular basis of pathologies, with a biochemical basis
• Develop skills in the management and analysis of biochemical diagnosis parameters
• Identify and define biochemically based diseases, through analysis and case studies
• Apply different biochemical analytical techniques to the diagnosis of human diseases
• Establish the molecular bases of human diseases
• Know the usual procedures used in the field of biomedicine and clinical analysis to generate, transmit and disseminate scientific information
• Develop a capacity for analysis, synthesis and critical reasoning in the application of the scientific method
• Analyze the different physiological functions
• Determine common diseases in human beings
• Substantiate diagnostic tests
• Highlight the molecular markers of the different physiological alterations
• Examine the concepts of fertility and infertility
• Determine the current techniques for assisted reproduction
• Analyze the techniques for preserving gametes and their clinical application
• Identify techniques of cellular growth and cell apoptosis
• Evaluate the study of cancer from a molecular point of view
• Identify the main hematological alterations in analytical tests
• Propose complementary explorations, essential for the clinical approach of patients affected by a hemopathy
• Correlate laboratory findings with clinical entities
• Establish differential diagnosis of the main blood dyscrasias
• Examine the etiological basis, pathogenesis, epidemiology, treatment and diagnosis of the main microbial and parasitic diseases affecting humans
• Apply the knowledge acquired to the control of communicable infectious diseases, both in the hospital and out-of-hospital environment
• Acquire the appropriate skills to choose the correct diagnostic method, with the consequent preparation of a report on the efficiency of the techniques used
• Develop specialized knowledge to carry out a good organization and management of clinical microbiology services. Coordinate activities and teams, and adapt it to the needs and available resources
• Achieve advanced epidemiological knowledge to anticipate and avoid the factors that cause or condition the acquisition of infectious diseases
• Achieve skills and aptitudes to work in a clinical laboratory, research or teaching team, recognizing the specific responsibilities that integrate the field of each specialty
• Provide advanced, specialized, multidisciplinary and up-to-date training, with an academic and scientific approach, oriented to their insertion in the labor career, in the clinical field or as a professional in R&D&I
• Consolidate and expand on knowledge of immunology, in the context of Clinical Analysis
• Interrelate knowledge of immunology, to approach problems from different perspectives
• Develop critical thinking, to interpret and discuss analytical results
• Gain skills in autonomous learning and be able to transmit the knowledge acquired in immunology
• Determine the nature of hereditary material, and establish the mechanisms of traits transmission
• Identify different genetic alterations, and analyze their causes and possible consequences
• Establish and define the different types of genetically based diseases, and substantiate the causes of them
• Compile various molecular biology techniques currently used for genetic diagnosis and analysis. Interpret the results obtained from them
• Present the latest advances in the field of medical genetics, genomics and personalized medicine

Specific objectives

Module 1. Legal Framework and Standard Parameters of the Clinical Analysis Laboratory  

• Define the workflows within a Clinical Analysis laboratory
• Identify the evacuation plan during a health emergency
• Develop the types of sanitary waste
• Present the need for process management
• Develop the administrative procedure for health documentation
• Identify the types of health inspections. 
• Define ISO accreditations, within the framework of an audit 
• Develop the reference intervals, through validation guidelines 
• Analyze the steps of the scientific method 
• Present the levels of scientific evidence, and its relation to Clinical Analyses 

Module 2. Instrumental Techniques in the Clinical Analysis Laboratory

• Compile the instrumental techniques used in a clinical analysis laboratory
• Determine the procedures involved in microscopic, microbiological, spectral, molecular biology, separation and cell counting techniques
• Develop the fundamental, theoretical concepts for understanding in-depth instrumental techniques
• Establish the direct applications of instrumental techniques of clinical analysis in human health as a diagnostic and preventive element
• Analyze the previous process which are necessary for the use of instrumental techniques and which must be developed in the clinical analysis laboratory
• Justify the rationale for using one practice over another, depending on diagnostic, staffing, management and other factors
• Propose a practical way of learning instrumental techniques, through the use of clinical cases, practical examples and exercises
• Assess the information obtained from the use of instrumental techniques for the interpretation of results

Module 3. Biochemistry I

• Critically and thoroughly analyze analytical data leading to a molecular diagnosis
• Propose specific biochemical tests for the diagnosis of a molecular pathology
• Develop practical skills in the management of reference intervals and critical biochemical parameters for diagnosis
• Compile and review scientific literature in an agile and exhaustive manner, to direct molecular diagnostics
• Demonstrate the ability to understand and explain physiological and pathological mechanisms from a molecular perspective
• Explain the applications of biochemical analysis in the clinical diagnosis of diseases
• Identify the importance and complexity of the regulation of biochemical processes, which give rise to the various functions of the organism

Module 4. Biochemistry II

• Develop specialized knowledge of the different molecular mechanisms involved in a biological process 
• Analyze problems related to the molecular basis of physiological processes and their consequences 
• Generate advanced knowledge in relation to the genetic basis of diseases 
• Demonstrate good management of laboratory practice with clinical orientation
• Analyze the experimental approximations and their limitations
• Interpret scientific results and establish a relationship between those results and the genetic bases of the disease
• Identify the applications of molecular diagnostic applications in clinical practice

Module 5. Biochemistry III

• Develop specialized knowledge about motor function disorders and their diagnosis
• Associate the cardiac alterations with their molecular markers
• Define specific kidney and liver diseases
• Develop specialized knowledge of gastrointestinal alterations  
• Associate neurodegenerative diseases with their molecular bases
• Analyze the alterations of various endocrine glands
• Examine the different diagnosis techniques

Module 6. Biochemistry IV

• Evaluate the most frequent gynecological and andrological problems in the clinical laboratory 
• Specify assisted reproduction techniques, such as artificial insemination
• Identify the legal framework of the gamete donation bank
• Develop the stages of the embryo under the inverted microscope
• Define the parameters of cellular culture
• Analyze the hematoxylin-eosin staining technique
• Examine the types of tumor markers
• Analyze the usefulness of a uroanalysis

Module 7. Hematology

• Determine the quantitative and qualitative alterations of the different blood cells
  Delve into the study of peripheral blood, red blood series alterations
• Identify white blood cell abnormalities and their main causes
• Present the most frequent platelet disorders
• Propose a differential diagnosis of myelodysplastic and myeloproliferative syndromes
• Analyze the battery of complementary tests for the initial assessment of acute leukemias
• Establish a differential diagnosis of the main acute and chronic lymphoid neoplasms
• Identify the various coagulation pathologies
• Establish appropriate guidelines for transfusion procedures

Module 8. Microbiology and Parasitology

• Acquire advanced knowledge in Clinical Microbiology and Parasitology. Study the main infectious diseases of clinical interest
• Identify disease-causing microorganisms in humans and understand the pathophysiology and practice detection and diagnostic techniques, within a framework of responsibility and health safety
• Organize the preparation of the necessary material for its use in the Microbiology laboratory, and control its sterility when necessary 
• Know the basis and operation of any culture medium, in order to use it in the performance of the different tests used in the Microbiology laboratory
• Correctly handle the different apparatus and equipment used in the Microbiology laboratory
• Establish a proper functioning, through a registration system, for the collection and processing of samples
• Design work protocols, specific for each pathogen, selecting the appropriate parameters for their correct diagnosis, based on criteria of efficacy and efficiency
• Interpret the sensitivity to antimicrobial or antiparasitic agents, in order to orientate the best treatment
• Know the new techniques used for the identification of pathogens
• Establish proper communication between the laboratory and the clinic
• Promote and monitor compliance with internal and external quality controls and safety standards

Module 9. Immunology

• Define the molecular and cellular components and organ organization of the immune system
• Analyze innate and adaptive immune responses, both humoral and cellular based
• Examine the immunological processes that occur in pathological processes, such as cancer, transplantation, autoimmunity and allergy
• Apply and integrate the most commonly used immunoanalytical techniques in Clinical Analysis
• Diagnose alterations of the immune system, based on the assessment of the analytical results obtained
• Develop integrated thinking and critical reasoning for solving immunological problems
• Propose and design new experiments to improve or incorporate new immunological techniques, as well as to know their limitations

Module 10. Genetics

• Build detailed family trees and perform segregation analysis 
• Examine karyotypes and identify chromosomal abnormalities
• Analyze the probability of transmission of genetically based diseases, and identify potential carriers 
• Learn about the fundamentals of the application of different molecular biology techniques for the diagnosis and investigation of genetic diseases: PCR, hybridization techniques, restriction and sequencing assays, among others
• Interpret the results obtained from analysis techniques used in the characterization of genetic alterations or molecular markers 
• Identify different genetically based diseases in detail, establish their causes and diagnostic methods
• Establish the legal and ethical aspects related to medical genetics and new technologies developed in the field of genetics
• Present the new genomic and bio-informatics tools, their benefits and scope of application. Carry out searches in genomic databases

A boost to your CV, which will make you as competitive as the most qualified professionals in the labor market’’