The programme offers students a choice of 3 areas of specialisation; biomedical research, medical technology and cardiac technology.
Recognised by the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP).
Students are eligible to apply for International Medical Laboratory Technician, MLT (ASCPi) certification offered by American Society for Clinical Pathology.
Singapore Polytechnic in partnership with National Heart Centre Singapore, offers the only formal diploma with Cardiac Technology option in Asia. Our cardiac technology students engage in face-to-face and work shoulder-to-shoulder with leading technologists and physicians in providing technical services in the investigation, diagnosis and management of heart diseases.
Opportunity to graduate with an additional qualification, e.g. Certificate in Phlebotomy. Students get a choice of clinical laboratories or premier research institutions for their internship. Our students have completed research internship annually at prestigious universities such as Harvard Medical School, Yale University, University of California San Diego, Imperial College London, Queens University Belfast etc.
Graduates have been accepted to read Medicine at NUS (Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine) and NTU (Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine). In addition, our graduates have also been accepted to read Dentistry, Pharmacy and Law programmes at NUS.
Exciting career opportunities await you when you graduate. Career options include:
Cardiac Technologist
Medical Technologist
Research Assistant
Sales and Marketing Personnel for Health Sectors
Further Studies: With this SP diploma, you may be granted credit exemptions for some degree programmes. Refer to the Advanced Standing Database for more information.
You also have the flexibility to pursue other disciplines such as Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy at the National University of Singapore or Biomedical Sciences and Chinese Medicine at the Nanyang Technological University.