Eligibility Information
The following section outlines applicant eligibility pre-requisite courses, academic performance standards, degree conditions and recommendations.
Minimum Academic Requirements
Applicants must fulfill the following before starting the Clinical Program:
- Completion of a baccalaureate degree or eligibility for a baccalaureate degree at the finish of the Clinical Program
- Chemistry: 16 semester/24 quarter hours including general chemistry
- Three courses must include laboratory experience
- One course must be organic chemistry, clinical chemistry or biochemistry
- Biology: 16 semester/24 quarter hours in biological sciences
- Must include immunology, microbiology (including bacteriology) and physiology or anatomy (content area may be included in a general course)
- Mathematics: 4 semester/ 6 quarter hours
Note: Survey courses do not qualify as fulfillment of chemistry and biology pre-requisites and remedial mathematics courses will not satisfy the mathematics requirement
Additional Recommended Courses
- Physics or Instrumentation
- Chemistry - quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis, instrumentation, clinical chemistry
- Biological Sciences - medical microbiology, parasitology, mycology, virology, cell biology, human anatomy, genetics
- Mathematics - statistics
- General - computer science, management, finance, psychology
Degree Requirements
- Non-degreed applicant must:
- Be enrolled in a Medical Technology/Medical Laboratory Science curriculum
- Fulfill the degree requirements prior to the start of the Clinical Program
- Degreed applicants MUST have received a degree prior to the start of the Clinical Program
- Degreed applicants where the degree is FIVE or MORE years old MUST update their academics by taking upper division courses such as Medical/Clinical Microbiology,
- Clinical Chemistry/Biochemistry, Hematology, Immunohematology and Immunology earning a grade of 2.8 or better.
Academic Performance
Academic performance is evaluated in the three coursework areas of Science/Math, Medical Laboratory Science and Overall. Performance standards are as follows:
- Preferred grade point averages are 3.0 or better (where 4.0 = A)
- Minimum grade point averages for consideration are 2.8
- For probationary consideration grade point averages of 2.5 - 2.8
Recommendations
Three recommendations are required from the following:
- One from science instructor (chemistry, biology, or clinical laboratory science)
- One from science advisor (chemistry, biology, or clinical laboratory science)
- One from employer or clinical laboratory science advisor