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It is for candidates seeking registration and licensure to practise as medical laboratory technicians or technologists in Kenya, typically after training at an approved Medical Laboratory Sciences institution. Foreign-trained professionals have a separate application route on the Board's online services. Check the current Professional Registration, Examination and Licensure Notice on the Board's website before applying.

Applications are made through the Board's online services. The site lists an Examination Application Form alongside indexing, registration and licence renewal forms; you apply, pay online, then print the resulting document. Registration for a given series closes on an announced date - for example, the November series notice listed registration ending 17/10/2025.

Expect the four areas the Board regulates: medical laboratory sciences practice and professional regulation; laboratory ethics, professionalism and compliance; laboratory quality management, including validation of reagents and equipment; and laboratory education, training and continuing professional development. The Board publishes regulations, a mandate statement and application forms that map onto these areas.

The Board's public pages do not state the duration, number of questions or passing score. Do not rely on figures from unofficial sources. Confirm these details with the Board directly using the contact details published on its site before you plan your revision timetable.

Yes - the Board offers an online service called Apply To Defer Examination Series. If you cannot sit the series you registered for, use that service rather than simply absenting yourself. Check the notice for the specific series to see any conditions attached to deferral.

The source material does not describe a retake policy, fees or waiting periods. Rather than guess, contact the Board for the current rules on re-sitting and on registering for the next series. Note that each series has its own registration deadline, so plan your re-application around the announced dates.

Start with the Board's mandate, regulations and the list of services it licenses, because regulation and compliance underpin everything else. Then work through quality management and reagent/equipment validation, which are technical and detail-heavy, and finish with education, training and CPD. Practise applying rules to short scenarios rather than memorising lists.

Candidates lose marks by studying only bench science and ignoring the regulator's role, by confusing registration with licensing and renewal, and by missing series deadlines such as the announced registration cut-off. Weakness in quality-management vocabulary - validation, inspection, accreditation - is also costly. Read the Board's own notices and regulations closely.

The Board lists Personnel Annual License Renewal and CPD programmes among its services, and provides an application for filing upgrading certificates, advanced training and CPD activities. Plan to record CPD as you go rather than at renewal time. Confirm current CPD requirements and any accredited providers through the Board's register.