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Available Courses
We offer an undergraduate degree, the BMLSc, and two postgraduate qualifications.
The BMLSc Degree
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Frequently Asked Questions
Regulations
Teaching Staff
Undergraduate
This course is four years of full-time study.
Year 1 is the first year Health Sciences course, also taken by those wishing to enter Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, or Physiotherapy. It must be taken at the University of Otago.
After admission to the Second Year, Years 2 and 3 are spent full time in the School of Medical Sciences and the Dunedin School of Medicine at the University of Otago.
Year 4 consists of two semesters in selected medical laboratories in New Zealand. Here students gain service experience, while taking part in a distance-taught academic course from Dunedin.
Following graduation, most degree-holders choose to work for at least six months in a diagnostic medical laboratory. This is necessary to fulfil the requirements for registration as a Medical Laboratory Scientist, by the Medical Science Council of New Zealand (Wellington), who manages the system Technologists Board .
The paper numbers in blue link to additional information on each paper:
| First Year Health Sciences | Points | |
| BIOC 192 | Foundations of Biochemistry | 18 points |
| CELS 191 | Cell and Molecular Biology | 18 points |
| CHEM 191 | The Chemical Basis of Biology and Human Health | 18 points |
| HEAL 192 | Foundations of Epidemiology | 18 points |
| HUBS 191 | Human Body Systems 1 | 18 points |
| HUBS 192 | Human Body Systems 2 | 18 points |
| PHSI 191 | Biological Physics | 18 points |
Some students may not be required to take all seven papers, in which case they can substitute additional approved papers to a total of at least 42 points. For details on the possible exemptions, see Health Sciences First Year.
The paper numbers in blue link to additional information on each paper:
| Year 2 | Points | |
| MELS 207 | Introductory to Diagnostic Pathology | 27 |
| MELS 221 | Microbes for Medicine | 18 |
| MELS 223 | Infection and immunity | 18 |
| MELS 230 | Biochemistry | 18 |
| MELS 241 | Human Biology: Cells and Systems | 18 |
| MELS 251 | Physiology | 21 |
The paper numbers in blue link to additional information on each paper:
| Year 3 | Points | |
| MELS 301 | Diagnostic Chemical Pathology | 30 |
| MELS 302 | Haematology and Transfusion Science | 30 |
| MELS 304 | Principles of Pathology | 15 |
| MELS 305 | Elements of Histotechnology | 15 |
| MELS 306 | Medical Microbiology | 30 |
The paper numbers in blue link to additional information on each paper:
Year 4 |
Points |
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| Two of the following, taken while placed in a working laboratory. | ||
| MELX 401 | Advanced Diagnostic Chemical Pathology | 60 |
| MELX 402 | Advanced Clinical Microbiology | 60 |
| MELX 403 | Clinical Virology | 60 |
| MELX 404 | Diagnostic Molecular Pathology | 60 |
| MELX 405 | Cytopathology | 60 |
| MELX 406 | Haematology | 60 |
| MELX 407 | Histopathology | 60 |
| MELX 408 | Transfusion Science | 60 |
| MELX 409 | Advanced Clinical immunology | 60 |
Regulations
Details of the regulations for the degree of Bachelor of Medical Laboratory Science, (BMLSc), can be found in the University of Otago Calendar. Prospective students should familiarise themselves with these regulations.
Teaching Staff
Jan-Maree Holleyman
Course Administrator
Lisa Gallagher
BSc (Well) DipMLT, PGDip MLSc (Otago)
Catherine Ronayne
BMLSc (Otago) DipGrad
Professor Ian Morison
BMedSci MB ChB PhD (Otago) FRCPA
Dr J M Faed
BMedSc MB ChB (Otago) FRCPA
Mandy Fisher
HNDip MT (South Africa) DipMLT
Dr Julia Horsfield
BSc (Hons) PhD (Otago) DipAppSci
Paul Spek
BMLSc (Otago) CT (IAC) CT (ASC)
Dr Heather Brooks
BSc (Hons) PhD (Lond)
Dr Alison Fitches
PhD (Otago) MIBiol
Associate Professor Han-Seung Yoon
MD PhD (Naqasak) FRCPA