
Pursue a career on the cutting edge of science and become an efficient lab technician with this free online course. The role of laboratory technician is crucial to the development of science and the betterment of society. Vital discoveries like vaccines happen through hard work carried out in laboratories and wouldn’t exist without microbiology and the people who pursue it. These people include the careful and meticulous microbiology laboratory technician and this free online course can help you become one to help keep us safe and healthy.
| Course Category | Science, Science & the Built Environment |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Explain the meaning of microbiology and its importance • Identify the commercial uses and features of fungi • State the five kingdoms into which living beings are classified • Recall the starting points of an infection • Describe the work of an epidemiologist • Identify the types of equipment that are found in a common laboratory |
| Course Code | 407 |



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