This means that we can offer our MT students a wide variety of experience across the whole scope of laboratory testing. The faculty teach both the lecture and student laboratories and also go with the student into the clinical setting to perform patient care testing. Part of the MT curriculum includes a set of core courses which are taken with the other students in the College of Health Professions. This gives our students the opportunity to work together with students from the other health professions programs in the College as they become members of the health care team. Students conduct a research project under the supervision of a faculty advisor.
Projects can be in the basic research, methods comparison or other areas.
MLT's can work part-time throughout their educational program at Upstate Medical University. There are many opportunities to work in sites such as physicians' office labs, private labs, University Hospital's Clinical Pathology laboratories and in the laboratories of our clinical affiliates. MLT's can apply for transfer credit or advanced placement for selected courses in the MT curriculum. Many of the basic concepts and laboratory vocabulary are already familiar to MLT's and they can build upon this foundation. This is national recognition of competence in a wide variety that relates to areas of laboratory practice.