19751 - Internship I (BO)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student is able to implement the pre-analytical phase in all the internship locations provided for by the course, and is also able to address and resolve all the non-conformities detected in each specific laboratory sector in which he or she has carried out the internship.

Course contents

Field/Laboratories:

Preparatory Internship: standardizing the basic skills regarding laboratory techniques, diluting the heterogeneity of the different school backgrounds.
Pathological Anatomy: acceptance, fixation/decalcification, sampling, processing, embedding, cutting. Distribution and archiving
Pharmacy: non-sterile galenics, sterile laboratory sector
Microbiology: Acceptance Sector
Transfusion Medicine: donor sector, blood component sector
Clinical Pathology: front-end reception, hematology, coagulation and urine

Teaching methods

The students will attend the various sectors working alongside the operators according to the order of the established work plan.

For each phase of work, it is possible to identify the activities that the student can perform alongside and/or in supervised autonomy.

Periodically, the internship tutor will hold a meeting with the student to evaluate the progress of the internship.

Once the student's learning has been assessed, it will be decided whether to proceed with the work plan or extend the stay in the sector (with methods of recovery of the internship period to be agreed with the Degree Course Coordination).

Assessment methods

At the end of each internship experience, students are evaluated by the site tutors, who fill out a specific detailed form that covers both the qualifying aspects of the internship and the behavioral/relational ones. The evaluation is shared and signed by the tutor and the student.

At the end of the curricular internship, the student will have to take an internship exam for each area provided.

The internship exam is a curricular exam and takes place at the end of the internship scheduled in June/July, according to the procedures provided for by the Didactic Regulations and the annual Didactic Schedule. The Head of Professional Educational Activities appoints a special Evaluation Committee made up of the Manager and the Tutors/Internship Coordinators.

The Committee jointly reviews the evaluations from each internship experience and, through an examination (oral test, clinical case discussion, etc.), assesses the level of competence, ability, and awareness acquired by the student in linking the specific contents learned with the organizational practices of the internship.

If the student does not pass or does not intend to take the internship exam in these sessions, the Head of Professional Educational Activities defines times and methods for the recovery of insufficient internships, which will be scheduled for the following September. In this session, the student must take and pass the internship exam in order to access the internship of the following A.Y.

The student is not admitted to the internship exam in the following cases:

• Failure to comply with the prerequisites set out in the Didactic Regulations;

• Failure to complete the ECTS credits required for the current year (curricular internship).

Links to further information

https://corsi.unibo.it/laurea/tlb-bologna/regolamento-di-tirocinio

Office hours

See the website of Daria Vincenzi