The Phlebotomy Assistant program is a short duration skill based training program, with an objective to develop a pool of trained workforce which can be employed by diagnostic/ healthcare service providers to assist medical laboratory technologist/pathologist. This program focuses on the acquisition of skills necessary to draw quality blood samples from patients, storage & transport to laboratory for medical testing.

Objectives
The program aims at making a student competent to perform the following skills:

• • Demonstrate the ability to collect. Storage, transport, receive, accept or reject and store blood, etc.
• • Practice infection control measures including collection, segregation, storage, transportation and disposal of the Biomedical Waste in the lab/unit, techniques to maintain the personal hygiene & use of the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) at work place.
• • Demonstrate Basic Life Support (BLS) measures & first aid in the event of emergencies.
   

With the fastest growing market of diagnostics and laboratory chains, the demand for Phlebotomists is incremental. Phlebotomy can also be the entry point for candidates who may be interested in undertaking Medical Laboratory Sciences as their profession, however, to get streamlined in the medical laboratory field, the phlebotomist will be expected to undergo desired higher level qualification.

Admission Procedure
Admission cycle of this programme is from January to June and July to December every year. Admission in the this Programme will be offered through the common prospectus of IGNOU available through online. Please visit the IGNOU website for applying online for admission.

Implementation
The programme is implemented through a network of Programme Study Centres (PSCs). These Programme Study Centres are located in health care institutions like medical colleges/hospitals, state pollution control boards, UGC recognised or accepted Universities, NGO’s involved in the training for bio-medical waste management etc. A team of trained teachers called counsellors have been identified and trained for providing academic counselling and project evaluation in the Programme Study Centres. The administrative control is through the Regional Centres (RCs) of IGNOU located usually at state capitals and the School of Health Sciences (SOHS) located at the IGNOU Headquarters, Delhi, India.

Programme Package
A multimedia package consists of print material in the form of booklets called blocks, audio-visual materials, counseling, radiocounselling, assignments, project and workshop in established Programme Study Centres (PSC). The programme has two theory courses of 6 credits each, (one credit is equivalent to 30 learning hours). The learners can also access interactive self-learning material, programme/course relates material anytime, anywhere, through the web support platform. They can interact with the peers, and counselors synchronously and asynchronously using discussion forums, chat and video conferencing facility.

Continuous Evaluation of Theory Component - Assignments
Assignment is a means of continuing assessment of the theory with a weightage of 30%. These assignments consist of a set of questions and activities that a student is required to undertake at his own place by referring to the blocks. Assignments help to recapitulate the theory. Thus assignments also help to reinforce learning in distance learning system of education. The assignments carry thirty percent weightage. Students are required to obtain forty percent marks as pass percentage in each assignment separately.

Term-end Examination
Term-end examination for theory is held twice in a year i.e. in the month of June/December. There will be one paper for each of the theory/elective courses heaving a weightage of 70% . A student has to secure at least 40% of the marks in each of the theory/elective papers for successful completion.

A student could appear in one or more papers of the theory/elective courses at a time. For appearing in the theory term-end examination, the student should fulfill two requisites, i.e. filling up the form in time and timely submission of assignments related to that theory paper or the papers that he/she want to appear. The theory term end examination form is available on the IGNOU website.

For further details, please contact the following:
E-mail: cpha@ignou.ac.in
Phone Number: +91-11-29572851