Comparative Analysis of Educational Regulations of the bachelor’s degree course in “Biomedical Laboratory Techniques” in the Lombard Universities

Abstract

With the institution of university courses, the course of study of the biomedical laboratory technician has experienced a real revolution. At the basis of the training of university courses there are decrees and laws that aim to standardize, while maintaining the autonomy of the universities, the educational offer that is provided to the undergraduate nationally. The purpose of this document is to understand the basics of structuring a degree course and to compare the educational offer that the Lombard university system makes available to future biomedical laboratory technicians. Starting from the analysis of the study plans of the degree courses, obtained from the institutional sites of the five Lombard universities that offer this path, a comparison was made between the standard in force on the construction of the degree course in biomedical laboratory techniques and the distribution of ECTS operated by each university in its teaching plan. The analysis highlighted a substantial similarity between the organizations of the degree course and adherence to regulatory indications. The only exceptions are the presence in some didactic plans of training activities no longer present in the current legislation and a poor valorization in some universities of the MED / 46 (Biotechnology and Methods in Laboratory Medicine), the academic discipline of reference for the professional profile of the biomedical laboratory technician.