1 credit hour. Quality control, which is an essential component of the clinical laboratory, is emphasized together with preventive maintenance and quality control for instrumentation. Students learn both operation and application of computers in a clinical laboratory. Fall or Spring semester. Instruction also includes the varied hematologic diseases.
Special emphasis is placed on proficiency of differential counting of peripheral blood smears.
Fall or Spring semester. Lectures and individualized instruction are provided to correlate principles of clinical microbiology with the current laboratory techniques and practices used to detect and identify causes of infectious diseases. Students learn to differentiate and identify potential pathogens from commensalistic organisms through the evaluation of clinical samples using current laboratory techniques. Fall or Spring semester. The student learns to use research methods under supervision and presents the results in a seminar and written report.