Training programs for medical laboratory science graduate degrees requires that students learn a great deal of medical theory. But it also requires that they spend time in a clinical laboratory (usually of an attached university training hospital) gaining experience and developing hands-on skill for many of the tests conducted in that laboratory. Experience in the laboratory however varies from one student to the other. For some, it’s a tolerable, rewarding learning experience with a little tinge of distress. For others it’s an experience filled with many difficulties—personal, interpersonal, academic, operational and formal difficulties. Still for some, time in the lab is a burning hell. Irrespective of what it could be, laboratory experience is never just an effortless pass time you cruise through without some friction, so much so that students think of their time in the lab as something to strive through at best, and at worst, something to survive. H...
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