Graduate Career-Entry Competencies
Upon satisfactory completion of the Clinical Program, the intern meets or exceeds the following career-entry competencies:
- Proficient in performing a wide range of clinical laboratory tests in areas such as:
- Hematology
- Clinical chemistry
- Immunohematology
- Microbiology
- Serology/Immunology
- Coagulation
- Molecular diagnostics
- Other emerging diagnostics
- Perform a role in the development and evaluation of test systems and interpretive algorithms
- Prepared to:
- Problem-solve and troubleshoot pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical components of laboratory services.
- Develop, evaluate, correlate and assure accuracy and validity of laboratory information
- Direct and supervise clinical laboratory resource and operations
- Collaborate in the diagnosis and treatment of patients
- Prepared to take on diverse responsibilities in areas:
- Analysis and clinical decision-making (e.g., critical pathways)
- Information management
- Regulatory compliance
- Quality assurance/performance improvement wherever laboratory testing is researched, developed or performed
- Possess requisite knowledge, skills and relevant experiences in:
- Communications to enable consultative interactions with members of the healthcare team, external relations, customer service and patient education
- Financial, operations, marketing, and human resource management of the clinical laboratory to enable cost-effective, high-quality, value-added laboratory services
- Information management to enable effective, timely, accurate, and cost-effective reporting of laboratory-generated information
- Research design/practice sufficient to evaluate published studies as an informed consumer
- Education to enable teaching laboratory professionals, other health care professionals, and others in laboratory practice, as well as the public
- Practice independently and collaboratively, being responsible for own actions, as defined by the profession. Interns exhibit:
- High ethical standards, moral attitudes and principles necessary for gaining and maintaining the confidence of patients, professional associates and the community
- A sense of responsibility and commitment to patients, peers and other professionals
- A sense of self-confidence and pride in the profession
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- A capacity for calm and reasoned judgment
- Responsibility for own work and decisions
- A high regard for the dignity of individual life
- A respect for confidentiality
- A spirit of professionalism
- Provide service and research in clinical laboratory science and related areas in a rapidly changing and dynamic healthcare delivery systems