Training

Beyond the Institution: NTRL Training Members Take TB Diagnostics Skills to Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital in Hands-On Field Experience

Learning in a reference laboratory is one thing. Applying that knowledge in a real hospital setting – where patients depend on accurate results every single day, is something else entirely. That is exactly what a group of trainees at the Uganda Supranational TB Reference Laboratory (SRL)/NTRL experienced when they visited Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital for an immersive field training session covering multiple laboratory sections, with a focused emphasis on TB diagnostics and the GeneXp...
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Inside the Lab: How Uganda SRL/NTRL Internship Transforms Students into Confident TB Diagnostics Professionals

Every year, a select group of medical laboratory science and technology students walk through the doors of the Uganda SRL/NTRL and walk out fundamentally changed. What happens in between is not just an internship. It is an immersion into one of East Africa’s most respected diagnostic institutions, guided by some of the most experienced TB laboratory professionals on the continent. Hands-On from Day One From the very first day, interns at Uganda SRL/NTRL are placed at the bench – not...
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