Medical laboratory assistants work in hospitals, diagnostic laboratories or in private physicians’ offices.
Medical laboratory technology programs are a mainstay in allied health academic catalogs at two-year community colleges and technical schools with associate degree and certificate programs generally taking less than two years to complete. Curricula include rigorous clinical coursework in addition to classroom study. With a number of courses in common with phlebotomy programs, medical laboratory technology graduates have also chosen to pursue entry-level employment as phlebotomists.
Clackamas Community College
Established in 1966, Clackamas Community College is a public two-year community college in the northwestern Oregon community of Oregon City. Students interested in careers as medical laboratory technicians can matriculate into the college’s clinical laboratory assistant certificate program. Housed within Clackamas’s Health Sciences division, students can complete program requirements in less than one year. The three-term curriculum includes courses like Phlebotomy, Technical Mathematics and Introduction to Clinical Research, as well as general education coursework in English and public speaking. The clinical laboratory assistant program also features a practical application component, with multiple laboratory classes and practicums, and well as required unpaid externships.
Clackamas Community College
19600 Molalla Ave.
Oregon City, OR 97045
503-657-6958
clackamas.edu
Eastern Kentucky University
Eastern Kentucky University is a public university with undergraduate and graduate programs spanning several areas. Located in the rural central Kentucky city of Richmond, the university was established in its current incarnation in 1906 and today has an enrollment of more than 16,000 students. Students can pursue either of two degree programs in medical laboratory technology within the university’s Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, housed in the College of Health Sciences. The clinical laboratory technology associate degree program combines general education courses with chemistry and biological sciences studies, as well as indepth clinical study. The program can be completed in two years. Students can pursue advanced study in the field by matriculating into the college’s baccalaureate level program in clinical laboratory science.
Eastern Kentucky University
521 Lancaster Ave.
Richmond, KY 40475
859-622-1000
eku.edu
Oakton Community College
A two-year public community college, Oakton Community College is in the metropolitan Chicago city of Des Plaines. Established in 1969, Oakton hosts 80 programs of study in fields ranging form liberal arts to allied health sciences. Oakton students can earn an Associate in Applied Science degree upon completing the college’s medical laboratory technology curriculum. Program requirements include five clinical practicums, as well as courses like Hematology, Microbiology and Coagulation. Students also take several general education courses as part of the program’s six-semester curriculum.
Oakton Community College
1600 East Golf Road
Des Plaines, IL 60016
847-635-1600
oakton.edu
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