Skills laboratories are educational facilities that have the potential benefit for undergraduate and postgraduate medical students and medical staff. They provide a safe and protected environment in which the learner can practise clinical skills before using them in real clinical settings. These skills laboratories help to ensure that all students acquire the necessary techniques and are properly assessed before practising on real patients. In addition, they support the acquisition, maintenance and enhancement of the clinical skills of students in the healthcare profession.

Health training institutions must have high-standard medical laboratories with state of the art equipment to provide top quality medical laboratory education to their students to create future Laboratory technologists of the highest caliber.

The primary objective of the medical curriculum is to offer the right knowledge, attitude, and skills to the medical laboratory students essential for their practice. The transformations in the teaching and learning methodologies, the profound developments in healthcare, and the swift technological growth challenged the conventional ways of laboratory skills development, ultimately giving rise to the emergence of the medical skills laboratories in several medical and clinical institutions.