Course Outline
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Phase I: Pre-Professional
First Year
1st Semester 2nd Semester Course Title Credit Hours Course Title Credit Hours ENGL 101 English Communications skills and writing I 5 ENGL 111 English Communications skills II 2 ENGL 102 English Language Structures and Drills I 4 ENGL 112 English Language Structures and Drills II 2 ENGL 103 English Academic Reading & Vocabulary I 5 ENGL 113 English Academic Reading & Vocabulary II 4 ARBC 101 Arabic Language Skills I 2 ARBC 111 Arabic Language Skills II 4 ISLM 101 Islamic Culture 2 BIOL 101 Biology for Health Sciences 2 CHEM 101 Chemistry for Health Sciences 2 PHYS 101 Physics for Health Sciences 2 Total 18 Total 18 Second Year
1st Semester 2nd Semester Course Title Credit Hours Course Title Credit Hours ENGL 201 Medical Terminology 2 PMSC 211 Anatomy & Physiology 4 ENGL 211 Advance English Grammar 2 PMSC 212 Principles of Diseaces 4 ENGL 212 English Academic Reading & Vocabulary I 5 PMSC 213 Basic Pharmacology 3 BIOC 211 Biochemistry 4 ETHC 201 Medical Ethics and Patients Safety 2 BIOS 201 Biostatistics & Introduction to EBM 2 EDUC 201 Health Professions Education 3 BHSC 201 Behavioral Sciences 2 CLAB 201 Introduction to Clinical Laboratory Sciences 2 COMP 201 Computer Science & Medical Informatics 3 ELEC 201 Elective Course 1 Total 18 Total 18 -
Phase II: Professional courses
Third Year
1st Semester 2nd Semester Course Title Credit Hours Course Title Credit Hours CLAB 311 Laboratory Procedures 1 CLAB 313 Immunology & Virology 3 CLAB 312 Body Fluids 2 CLAB 318 Clinical Microbiology 3 CLAB 317 Clinical Biochemistry 2 CLAB 319 Clinical Microbiology Laboratory 2 CLAB 324 Clinical Chemistry 5 CLAB 416 Microbiology Clinical Education 5 CLAB 412 Chemistry/Urinalysis/phlebotomy 5 CLAB 316 Parasitology 1 CLAB 413 Laboratory Medicine Seminar 1 Total 15 Total 15 Fourth Year
1st Semester 2nd Semester Course Title Credit Hours Course Title Credit Hours CLAB 314 Hematology 3 CLAB 322 Immunohematology 3 CLAB 315 Hematology Laboratory 3 CLAB 323 Immunohematology Laboratory 1 CLAB 414 Laboratory Management I 1 CLAB 418 Laboratory Medicine Case Studies Seminar 1 CLAB 411 Hematology\Coagulation Clinical Education 5 CLAB 417 Blood Bank/Immunology Clinical Education 5 CLAB 419 Laboratory Management II 1 CLAB 415 Histo / Cyto Techniques 2 CLAB 320 Molecular Diagnostics 2 CLAB 321 Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory 1 Total 13 Total 15 Internship
The university offers a one-year rotating internship program in cooperation of the NGHA hospital laboratories that are accredited by the College of American Pathologists (CAP), Joint Commission International (JCI), and the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB). This training provides students with the professional experience needed to meet the certification requirements established by the Saudi Commission for Health Sciences (SCHS).
