Some skills and areas you’ll cover throughout this course include infection control policies, workplace communication, and how to receive, prepare, and dispatch samples.
Ultimately, the course helps you build and foster all the skills you need to become a skilled pathology assistant, specimen reception staff member, or biomedical laboratory assistant.
This is one of the shortest courses on our list. So it’s an attractive choice if you’re looking to jumpstart your career as soon as possible.
It’s available both full-time and part-time in different locations all across Australia. You’ll be attending 16 hours of classes twice a week for 16 weeks (full-time). There will also be assigned online materials to read and complete outside of class hours.
There are TAFE campuses located in South Australia, Queensland, and New South Wales (NSW)—all of which offer this course.
Through a mixture of theory and practical course work, learn to:
Gain practical experience and develop specialist skills that give you an advantage in the job market.
Some courses require evidence of previous experience or study before you can enrol
To be prepared for this course, we recommend that you have:
Pathology assistant , Specimen reception staff member and Biomedical laboratory assistant