MLS 1000 - Core Clinical Laboratory Skills

(3) Campus - not offered; Online - Su, F, Sp

The MLS 1000 course is designed to teach core clinical laboratory skills to individuals from various health care professions. The curriculum will focus on basic laboratory methods in quality control, quality assurance, information recording and transfer, normal and abnormal laboratory values, and problem recognition. Students will receive basic technical instruction in phlebotomy, specimen collection and processing, and laboratory instrumentation in the areas of hematology, serology, urinalysis, and clinical chemistry. Students must have the support of a clinical laboratory to obtain their hands-on laboratory requirement. Prerequisite: Departmental Approval.