Johnblakii:
In Nigeria and other under developed countries, MLS is a better career FOR NOW..
But go outside this country, you can never see a degree in med lab sci in most schools..
That is because it's a broad course and no one can specialise in pathology, micro, biochem, haemo etc all at once..
That's becoming a jack of all trade..
MLS in Nigeria is the reason we will never progress, because no matter what they say, they will always provide mediocre service to health.
And in the future, Nigeria will definitely cut off MLS because it's too broad.
The reason why microbiogists are not treated well in Nigeria is because they don't further into special fields..
You can't graduate a microbiologist and think you are done..
So my advice is take the MLS career and remain a local champion in hospital that will probably burn out in the nearest future, or take MCB and further into either med micro, research or MPH..
I am a microbiologist and I study Medical Microbiology for master's degree.. I'm currently working at NCDC as a virologist and I previously worked at UNICEF as an intern public health scientist, and I can tell you i have not seen any MLS in the 2 places I have worked..
If you are a committed person, go for MCB and further your degree, during your masters, volunteer for different health programs, I promise you, there are plenty places you can work..
And if you want to a certificate in MLS to work in a medical lab, just apply for a scholarship abroad, it'll take you only 2yrs and a better training.. compared to the joke of a BMLS in Nigeria.. after the 2 years, you'll have a knowledge of many fields in Microbiology and also MLS
Meanwhile a MLS graduate can never use 2 yrs to learn all the fields of MCB.. he/she needs to starr a 4yr program again..
That's 8yrs.. compared to 6yrs you'll use..
Argue with your ignorant brains

Very true.
Even in UNILAG. There's no masters in MLS they have Clinical Pathology, Haematology, Chemical Pathology. Even in Advance nations, No school offers MLS, most of them have divided MLS into various parts like, neuropathology, transfusion medicine etc. The list is endless. Nigeria really need to work on its educational system

Johnblakii:
MCB was never meant to be for only medical courses.
Yall think when someone mentions mcb, it deals with health. you are wrong.
that is why it is necessary to further into specific fields.
but mls is restricted to only the medical line.
with a bsc in mcb, you can get a msc in mls outside this country..
i studied bsc in mcb, msc in medical microbiology and received training in medical lab science. i can do any work a mls person can do.. and it took me just 6 months of training..
can you guy even do proteonomics and genomics? I don't think you guys can even do cancer research and DNA study in nigeria.. i hear say they taught you guys that...
in the research field, who is more oriented and diverse between mcb and mls? it is surely mcb... anyday, anytime...

meanwhile, I could drop the msc degree and still go into oil, environmental, food and industrial microbiology. we in mcb got an internship with Exxon mobile before graduating. i could work in a brewery.. etc..

that is why I said you can never compare mcb with mls..

with a mls degree, you cannot work outside the medical line..

i understand and agree that bsc in mcb is not better than a mls degree... but we have different fields to further in... and we could choose the medical line and still have a fallback in case it does not work out in themedical loine....

Please I would like to undergo the training you went through. How can I go about it?

Johnblakii:
Just like Medicine, you can't just stop at BSC level for MCB. you have to specialize at postgraduate level...
dude, it is because mcb association is weak that is why MLS have mouth in nigeria.
trust me you guys are just lab technicians elsewhere..
I will say it again... a graduate of mcb just needs 6-month training to get the medlab license abroad,,,,
Nigeria is just a useless country that is why you have ground.... a country where history graduates work in space research organization....
in all the breakthroughs in medicine and infectious disease since the creation of this world, have you heard any MLS graduate discover something?
modena and pfizer scientists who created the vaccines for coronavirus, check their degrees... they are vaccinologists, microbiologists, biochemists and doctors... and they all have skills in lab science without going through 4yrs of useless school to restrict themselves in just one field.
please be guided ooo....

Please how do I go about it?

femianski:

There's nothing like MSc. Med lab. There's only MSc in one of the specialties. And that doesn't grant you license to practice in the medical laboratory. That 18 months program has been scraped off many years ago. You'll have to go back to school and get BMLS for you to be licensed.

Very true

Omowale2023:

Very true.
Even in UNILAG. There's no masters in MLS they have Clinical Pathology, Haematology, Chemical Pathology. Even in Advance nations, No school offers MLS, most of them have divided MLS into various parts like, neuropathology, transfusion medicine etc. The list is endless. Nigeria really need to work on its educational system

You're wrong. Get your facts right. In the US it's called Clinical laboratory science, in the UK it is biomedical science and some countries, medical laboratory technology.
There's no masters in MLS in Nigeria likewise there's no masters in medicine and surgery, masters in pharmacy, masters in nursing, masters in physiotherapy. There's only masters in each specialities of those professions.

femianski:

You're wrong. Get your facts right. In the US it's called Clinical laboratory science, in the UK it is biomedical science and some countries, medical laboratory technology.
There's no masters in MLS in Nigeria likewise there's no masters in medicine and surgery, masters in pharmacy, masters in nursing, masters in physiotherapy. There's only masters in each specialities of those professions.

It's you that's wrong. There's masters in nursing, masters in clinical pharmacy, masters in physiotherapy. Secondly, I have made my research, what is there is that MLS can be equated to clinical Pathology. However, no school offers MLS

Omowale2023:

It's you that's wrong. There's masters in nursing, masters in clinical pharmacy, masters in physiotherapy. Secondly, I have made my research, what is there is that MLS can be equated to clinical Pathology. However, no school offers MLS

There's no masters in a health profession as a whole but in a specialty. I am in the medical line and I'm talking from experience.
Also coming down to your fallacious claim of MLS not being offered in any school abroad. Taking the US as an example,

Universities Offering Medical Laboratory Science Programs

- _University of Cincinnati_
- _University of Delaware_
- _Thomas Jefferson University_
- _George Washington University_
- _The University of Arizona_
- _West Virginia University_
- _Loyola University Chicago_
- _University of Washington_
- _University of St. Thomas, Minnesota_
- _University of North Dakota_
- _Idaho State University_
- _The University of Vermont_

And many more

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femianski:

There's no masters in a health profession as a whole but in a specialty. I am in the medical line and I'm talking from experience.
Also coming down to your fallacious claim of MLS not being offered in any school abroad. Taking the US as an example,

Universities Offering Medical Laboratory Science Programs

- _University of Cincinnati_
- _University of Delaware_
- _Thomas Jefferson University_
- _George Washington University_
- _The University of Arizona_
- _West Virginia University_
- _Loyola University Chicago_
- _University of Washington_
- _University of St. Thomas, Minnesota_
- _University of North Dakota_
- _Idaho State University_
- _The University of Vermont_

And many more

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Hmmm......please quote your source