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عبدالعزيز سعود فاخوري Abdulaziz Saud Fakhouri

Assistant Professor

أستاذ مساعد Biomedical Technology Department قسم التكنولوجيا الطبية الحيوية

كلية العلوم الطبية التطبيقية
Building 24, 2nd Floor, Office #2250
afakhouri@ksu.edu.sa
مادة دراسية

BMT 484: Automation in Clinical Laboratories

Course General Information:
 
Course Title and Code:                                BMT 484: Automation in Clinical Laboratories
Credit Hours:                                                3 credit hours (2 lectures + 1 practical)
Total Contact Hours / Semester:                   46 hours/ semester (28 lectures + 28 practical)
Course Level:                                                 7th level
Course Pre-requisites:                                  BMT 315
Lecture Day and Time:                                Thursday 10:00 am to 11:50 am
Location:                                                        1st floor, room 25
 
Course Instructor:                                        Abdulaziz Saud Fakhouri, Ph.D. (Lecture)
                                                                        Afzal Pasha Shaik, Ph.D. (Practical)
Contact Information:                                  
            Office Location:                                2nd floor, 2250
            Office Hours:                                     Thursday 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
            Telephone:                                         Not available
            E-Mail:                                               afakhouri@ksu.edu.sa
            Website:                                             Not available
                                                                                   
Course Description:
This course provides basics, working principles and applications of equipment utilized in laboratories. The course will shed the light on many laboratory equipment for conducting experiments such as incubators, centrifuges, and liquid handlers. Furthermore, this course will go over data acquisition technologies such as chromatography, microscopy and spectrophotometry.
 
Course Objectives:

  • To familiarize students on equipment, instruments and latest technologies used in clinical laboratories.
  • Prepare students for future jobs that require basic knowledge of laboratory equipment.

 
Teaching strategies:
Multiple teaching methods will be utilized to produce interactive two-way educational environment. Traditional face-to-face lectures will be given to provide basic concepts. Additionally, homework and final project will be requested as a feedback of the learning process of students. For the practical portion, students will be exposed to laboratory equipment and they will perform hands-on experiments to learn basic procedures and skills required to operate such equipment.
 
Course Learning Resources:
Textbook/s: Mathew Folaranmi Olaniyan, Laboratory: Instrumentation and Techniques, 2017.
Handouts:                                                      PowerPoint slides provided by instructor
Other references: J. G. Webster, Medical Instrumentation: Application and Design, 4th edition, 2010.
R. S. Khandpur, Handbook of Biomedical Instrumentation, 3rd edition, 2014.
J. G. Webster, The Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook, 2nd edition, 2014.
 
Course Topics:
 

Lecture Topics Practical Topics No. of
Weeks		 Contact hours
  1. Introduction: Experimentation Stages and Lab safety
 Lab skills introduction and lab Safety 1 2 L + 2 P
  1. Autoclave, Liquid handlers, Glassware and mixers
 Basic lab skills (weight measuring, glassware, and pipetting) 1 2 L + 2 P
  1. pH-Meter, Refrigerators, Centrifuge and Incubators
 Basic lab skills (pipetting and centrifuge) 1 2 L + 2 P
  1. Culture hoods, fume hoods and clean rooms
 PH-meter and safety cabinets demonstration 1 2 L + 2 P
  1. Spectrophotometry
 Glucose estimation 1 2 L + 2 P
  1. Electrophoresis
 Albumin estimation 1 2 L + 2 P
  1. Chromatography
 Chromatography demonstration 1 2 L + 2 P
  1. Mid-Term Exam
 Mid-term week 1 2 L + 0 P
  1. Field visit to KKUH laboratories (1)
 Field visit to KKUH laboratories (2) 1 2 L + 2 P
  1. Microscopy
 Microscopy demonstration 1 2 L + 2 P
  1. Lyophilizer
 Electrophoresis demonstration 1 2 L + 2 P
  1. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
 PCR demonstration 1 2 L + 2 P
  1. Auto analyzers and automation in laboratories
 Hemo analyzer demonstration 1 2 L + 2 P
  1. Final presentations
 Final Exam 1 2 L + 2 P

 
Course Assessment:
 

  Assessment task (e.g. essay, test, group project, examination, speech, oral presentation, etc.) Week Due Proportion of Total Assessment
1 Class Activities Continuous 5%
2 Homework Continuous 5%
3 Mid-Term Exam 8th Week (12/03/2020) 15%
4 Practical Continuous 20%
5 Course Final Project 14th Week (23/04/2020) 15%
6 Final Exam After Eid (01/06/2020) 40%

 

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