A personal interview with the Medical Technology Admission Committee may be required. Two letters of recommendation from instructors in physics, chemistry, or biology are required. It is recommended that students take MTEC 1 - Introduction to Medical Technology sometime during the premedical technology curriculum. Students receive didactic instruction through the Program as well as clinical instruction in the University Hospitals, Inc. Clinical Laboratories after completion of the junior year. The course of study begins with the summer sessions and covers three academic semesters.
Students register for the following courses during the three semesters of study.
The primary purpose of the graduate program in Medical Technology is to prepare medical technologists for positions as educators of clinical laboratory personnel, and administrators in clinical laboratories. The program prepares the student to supervise in a clinical laboratory, to teach in one of the specific disciplines, to direct a medical technology program, or to teach in a medical technology program. A research project and a problem study report are requirements for graduation. A curriculum is designed that has a minimum of 15 semester hours of work from the major area of concentration and a minimum of 9 hours from the minor area. Three semester hours are taken in Seminar, three semester hours in Statistics, and six semester hours related to research and the problem study.