Awareness and Attitude of Medical Laboratory Science Students Towards Specializing in Histopathology
Ikhide G. Ilegbedion, J. O. Ezeama · 2013
The objective of the research is to assess the awareness and attitude of Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) students towards histopathological speciality. The present study was based on data from two hundred and seventy two (272) Medical Laboratory Science students. Questionnaires were distributed to all the Students from year one to year five. Out of 350 Questionnaires, only 272 completed and returned there questionnaires. These students were from different backgrounds with age ranging from 15-35. The questions were designed to obtain Yes, No and Unknown answers. Inform consent was granted by the individual subjects. Thirty one (31) representing 11.4% of the total students choose to study Histopathology/Cytology, 83(30.6%) choose to study Haematology/Blood Transfusion Science, 67(24.7%) choose to study Medical Microbiology, 1(0.36%) choose to study Immunology and none (0%) choose Parasitology discipline. Total of 28(10.3%) students out of the total number that participated liked Histopathology as a discipline in MLS, 233(86.0%) dislike Histopathology and 10(3.7%) where indifferent. Histopathology is an interesting speciality in MLS, but the decline of students and lectures calls for attention and if no measure is taking, one wonders what the future holds for this speciality.