• PEO1: Provide the healthcare community with graduates with the knowledge and skills to display ethical, professional conduct on campus and in clinical settings.
• PEO2: Provide a high quality, educational program that prepares the student to achieve entry level competencies and skills required for employment as Medical laboratory technicians in all clinical laboratory areas.
• PEO3: Prepare an environment for students that foster interest in enthusiasm for learning. The overall Program will provide foundations in communications, mathematics, and human relations as well as technical training.
• PEO4: Provide guidance to Medical Laboratory Technology program students to assist them in pursuing educational and occupational opportunities that maximize their professional potential

The program objectives (why we teach this) and program outcomes (what the students will learn) are based on performance competencies spanned over 9 key areas:

PO1 Clinical care: Using a patient/family-centered approach and best evidence, each student  will organize and implement the preventive, investigative and management plans; and will offer appropriate follow-up services.

Program objectives should enable the students to:

• Apply the principles of basic science & Evidence -based practice
• Use relevant investigations as needed
• Identify the indications for basic medical procedures & perform them in an appropriate manner.
• Provide care to patients efficiently and in a cost-effective way- in a range of settings, and maintain foremost the interests of individual patients.
• Identify the influence of biological, psychosocial, economic and spiritual factors on patients well-being & act in an appropriate manner.
• Incorporate strategies for certain emergency care, health promotion and disease prevention with their patients.

PO2 Communication:The student will learn how to communicate with patients/clients, care-givers, other health professionals and other members of the community effectively and appropriately. Communication is a fundamental requirement in the provision of health care services.

Program objectives should enable the students to:

• Provide sufficient information to ensure that the patient/client can participate as actively as possible and respond appropriately to the information
• Clearly discuss the diagnosis with the patient, and decide appropriate treatment plans in a sensitive manner that is in the patient’s and society’s best interests
• Explain the proposed healthcare service – its nature, purpose, possible positive and adverse consequences, its limitations, and reasonable alternatives wherever they exist
• Use effective communication skills to gather data and share information including attentive listening, open-ended inquiry, empathy and clarification to ensure understanding
• Appropriately communicate with, and provide relevant information to, other stakeholders including members of the healthcare team
• Use communication effectively and flexibly in a manner that is appropriate for the reader or listener
• Explore and consider the patient’s ideas, beliefs and expectations during interactions with them, along with varying factors such as age, ethnicity, culture and socioeconomic background
• Develop efficient techniques for all forms of written and verbal communication including accurate and timely record keeping
• Assess their own communication skills, develop self-awareness and be able to improve their relationships with others
• Possess skills to counsel for lifestyle changes and advocate health promotion.

PO3. Membership of a multidisciplinary health team: The student will put a high value on      effective communication within the team, including transparency about aims, decisions, uncertainty and mistakes.

Program objectives will aim at making the students being able to:

• Recognize, clearly articulate, understand and support shared goals in the team that reflect patient and family priorities
• Possess distinct roles within the team; to have clear expectations for each member’s functions, responsibilities, and accountabilities, which in turn optimizes the team’s efficiency and makes it possible for them to use division of labor advantageously, and accomplish more than the sum of its parts
• Develop mutual trust within the team to create strong norms of reciprocity and greater opportunities for shared achievement
• Communicate effectively so that the team prioritizes and continuously refines its communication channels creating an environment of general and specific understanding
• Recognize measurable processes and outcomes, so that the individual and team can agree on and implement reliable and timely feedback on successes and failures in both the team’s functioning and the achievement of their goals. These can then be used to track and improve performance immediately and over time.

PO4. Ethics and accountability at all levels (clinical, professional, personal and social):Students will understand core concepts of clinical ethics and law so that they may apply these to their practice as physicians.

Program objectives should enable the students to:

• Describe and apply the basic concepts of clinical ethics to actual cases and situations
• Recognize the need to make health care resources available to patients fairly, equitably and without bias, discrimination or undue influence
• Demonstrate an understanding and application of basic legal concepts to the practice of physiotherapy
• Employ professional accountability for the initiation, maintenance and termination of patient- provider relationships
• Demonstrate respect for each patient’s individual rights of autonomy, privacy, and confidentiality

PO5. Commitment to professional excellence: The student will execute professionalism to reflect in his/her thought and action a range of attributes and characteristics that include technical competence, appearance, image, confidence level, empathy, compassion, understanding, patience, manners, verbal and non-verbal communication, an anti discriminatory and non-judgmental attitude, and appropriate physical contact to ensure safe, effective and expected delivery of healthcare.

Program objectives will aim at making the students being able to:

• Demonstrate distinctive, meritorious and high quality practice that leads to excellence and that depicts commitment to competence, standards, ethical principles and values, within the legal boundaries of practice
• Demonstrate the quality of being answerable for all actions and omissions to all, including service users, peers, employers, standard-setting/regulatory bodies or oneself
• Demonstrate humanity in the course of everyday practice by virtue of having respect (and dignity), compassion, empathy, honor and integrity
• Ensure that self-interest does not influence actions or omissions, and demonstrate regards for service-users and colleagues

PO6. Leadership and mentorship:The student must take on a leadership role where needed in order to ensure clinical productivity and patient satisfaction. They must be able to respond in an autonomous and confident manner to planned and uncertain situations, and should be able to manage themselves and others effectively. They must create and maximize opportunities for the improvement of the health seeking experience and delivery of healthcare services.

Program objectives should enable the students to:

• Act as agents of change and be leaders in quality improvement and service development, so that they contribute and enhance people’s wellbeing and their healthcare experience
• Systematically evaluate care; ensure the use of these findings to help improve people’s experience and care outcomes, and to shape clinical treatment protocols and services
• Identify priorities and effectively manage time and resources to ensure the maintenance or enhancement of the quality .
• Facilitate themselves and others in the development of their competence, by using a range of professional and personal development skills
• Work independently and in teams.

PO7. Social accountability and responsibility:The students will recognize that allied and healthcare professionals need to be advocates within the health care system, to judiciously manage resources and to acknowledge their social accountability.They have a mandate to serve the community, region and the nation and will hence direct all research and service activities towards addressing their priority health concerns.

Program objectives should enable the students to:

• Demonstrate knowledge of the determinants of health at local, regional and national levels and respond to the population needs
• Establish and promote innovative practice patterns by providing evidence-based care and testing new models of practice that will translate the results of research into practice, and thus meet individual and community needs in a more effective manner
• Develop a shared vision of an evolving and sustainable health care system for the future by working in collaboration with and reinforcing partnerships with other stakeholders, including academic health centers, governments, communities and other relevant professional and non-professional organizations
• Advocate for the services and resources needed for optimal patient care

PO8. Scientific attitude and scholarship:The student will utilize sound scientific and/or scholarly principles during interactions with patients and peers, educational endeavors, research activities and in all other aspects of their professional lives.

Program objectives should enable the students to:

• Engage in ongoing self-assessment and structure their continuing professional education to address the specific needs of the population
• Practice evidence-based practice by applying principles of scientific methods

• Take responsibility for their educational experiences

• Acquire basic skills such as presentation skills, giving feedback, patient education and the design and dissemination of research knowledge; for their application to teaching encounters.

PO9. Lifelong learning: The student should be committed to continuous improvement in skills and knowledge while harnessing modern tools and technology.

Program objectives will aim at making the students being able to:

• Perform objective self-assessments of their knowledge and skills; learn and refine existing skills; and acquire new skills
• Apply newly gained knowledge or skills to patient care
• Enhance their personal and professional growth and learning by constant introspection and utilizing experiences
• Search (including through electronic means), and critically evaluate medical literature to enable its application to patient care
• Develop a research question and be familiar with basic, clinical and translational research in its application to patient care
• Identify and select an appropriate, professionally rewarding and personally fulfilling career pathway

• PSOs1. Students will demonstrate competency in performing a wide range of medical laboratory tests and procedures, including specimen collection, processing, analysis, and interpretation, adhering to standard operating procedures.
• PSOs2. Students will possess the ability to maintain quality assurance and quality control measures in the laboratory, ensuring accuracy, precision, and reliability of test results while adhering to regulatory standards and guidelines.

Provision of Lateral entry: Students who have successfully completed Diploma in Medical Lab Technology (DMLT) from any Govt. recognized board and would like to pursue BMLT can directly enter into the second year or third semester, subject to the availability of seats.

• The Program of study leading to Bachelor in Medical Laboratory Technology (B.Sc.MLT) of the Usha Martin University (UMU) shall be conducted under the Faculty of Health Sciences, on full-time basis; its duration shall be of three years spread over six semesters.
• Internship – All students  of  Sc.MLT must  undergo  a  compulsory  rotatory  internship  for  a continuous period of 6 months (720 hours) approved by the university after passing examinations in all the subjects.
• Maximum duration of the program: Candidates should complete the Bachelor in Medical lab Technology course within a period of eight years from the date of joining in the course.

The fee for the BMLT course shall be decided by the competent authority at the start of each admission session. The Vice Chancellor of the University may constitute a fee fixation committee to decide about the fee structure of the programs offered by the University. However, any decision relating to fee fixation superseding any regulation/ guideline issued by various statutory councils at state and national level shall stand null unavoidable initio.

BMLT is a two-year undergraduate program created to give qualified students advanced knowledge in both common and complex laboratory diagnostic techniques.This course allows students who have completed their diploma in Medical Laboratory course to directly enter the second year of the BMLT course program.

Applicants may be admitted if they have completed a two-year diploma after 10+2 and a three-year diploma (MLT) after matriculation with 50% of the possible points.

Fresher: A BSc in MLT graduate should anticipate an average annual starting salary of INR 4 lakh to INR 5 lakh.

Yes, a B.Sc. in Medical Lab Technology for lateral entry is available at Usha Martin University.

Yes, you are eligible for the BMLT/BMLS course after completing the DMLT or Diploma in MLT. You can get lateral entry (admission in 2nd year) in B.Sc. MLT