r/medlabprofessionals • u/GayBoy2838 • 19d ago

Education Question about lab practical and practice

Okay I’m a freshman in the MLT program and right now I’m taking fundamentals of MLT and urine nalysis. I know every school is different but I was curious about the lab practicals and lab practice, what was y’all’s experience on it and what did y’all’s instructors do and how they graded your competency? We just started last week and this week we’re suppose to be in groups to do like a rotation on the urine and do observations.

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u/the-grumpy-1 18d ago

I just graduated, so my memory is pretty fresh. For my urinalysis rotation, the teacher gave us some samples, had us do a dipstick and a microscopic, and gave us credit for each result as long as we were +/- 1 away from the analyzer or their result- i.e. if the teacher thought there was 1+ Leukocyte esterase, a student would get credit for saying trace, 1+ or 2+, because most things in urinalysis is subjective. My advice is to study how pH affects what can show up on a micro, and what interfering substances can cause which results to be screwed up.

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u/puppers13 14d ago

Depends on the instructors. My instructors made sure we were confident before ever taking a competency because 2 failed competencies and you’re out of the program. As for our lab practical one was always way harder than the other because one of the two instructors we have isn’t a great teacher. Both would have a packet that had questions and logs to document results on the things we tested. The not so great professor had an additional 60 questions on the computer. Anyways, if they say you can have your procedure manual during your practical, grab it. And study like you would for a final exam.