California Code of Regulations › Title 17 - Public Health › Division 1 - State Department of Health Services › Chapter 2 - Laboratories › Subchapter 1 - Service Laboratories › Group 2 - Clinical Laboratory Regulations › Article 2 - Training › Section 1035.2 - Training Schools

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Any person
						operating a school or conducting any course for the purpose of training or preparing
						individuals for a license under the provisions of Chapter 3, Division 2 of the
						Business and Professions Code shall submit, on forms provided by the department and
						subject to periodic renewal, such information as may be required by the department
						to satisfactorily evaluate the personnel, equipment, quality of instruction, and
						scope of activities of said schools.
(b)
						Persons providing instruction in general or specialized technic shall provide
						training which when successfully completed will fully qualify individuals to meet
						the minimum requirements for licensure under the provisions of Article 4, Chapter 3,
						Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code.
(c) A training school shall accept a person
						licensed for training in clinical laboratory procedures only if there are on active
						duty in the laboratory a minimum of two full-time actively employed persons who
						possess any of the following licenses: clinical laboratory technologist, clinical
						laboratory bioanalyst, physician and surgeon, or appropriate laboratory
						specialty.
(d) The ratio of licensed
						clinical laboratory personnel to trainees shall be no less than 2:1.
(e) The following shall be minimum requirements
						for approval of laboratories to employ clinical laboratory technologist trainees as
						provided for in Article 2 of Chapter 3, Division 2 of the Business and Professions
						Code:
(1) There shall be adequate space and
						necessary equipment as defined by the department to carry out the procedures of the
						laboratory and to provide training for the clinical laboratory technologist
						trainees.
(2) The workload of the
						laboratory training clinical laboratory technologist trainees shall meet minimum
						standards set by the department and shall include at least the following: routine
						chemical determinations commonly required on blood, spinal fluid, and other body
						fluids; morphological, cultural, chemical and immunological tests for microbial
						pathogens; tests for helminths and protozoa; examinations for normal and abnormal
						blood cells; sedimentation rates, bleeding and coagulation time determinations and
						other commonly employed tests in hematology; precipitation, flocculation,
						agglutination or complement fixation tests; blood typing, Rh factor determinations
						and pretransfusion procedures; commonly employed serological tests; routine and
						microscopic urinalyses and such other technics as may be required to properly
						instruct clinical laboratory technologist trainees in current clinical laboratory
						procedures.
(3) The amount of practical
						training required by each clinical laboratory technologist trainee in order to
						fulfill the minimum requirements for admission to the licensing examinations shall
						be in accordance with the provisions of Article 4, Chapter 3, Division 2 of the
						Business and Professions Code. When one year of practical training in all subjects
						is necessary, the minimum time devoted to each shall be as follows:
Biochemistry..........................
..........................12
								  Weeks
Hematology..........................
..........................8
								  Weeks
Pretransfusion
								  Procedures..........................
..........................4 Weeks
Urinalysis..........................
..........................4
								  Weeks
Bacteriology..........................
..........................9
								  Weeks
Serology..........................
..........................4
								  Weeks
Parasitology..........................
..........................3
								  Weeks
Miscellaneous and
								  review..........................
..........................8 Weeks
(4)
						When less than one or more than one year of practical training is required toward
						admission to the clinical laboratory technologists' examination, the above time
						devoted to the various subjects shall be decreased or increased proportionately
						after the laboratory director has secured approval from the department for the
						modification.
(5) However, when one or
						more years of practical training in any one basic science or specialty is necessary,
						the laboratory director shall modify this schedule, subject to prior approval by the
						department, so that the area of concentration is in one or more subjects.
(6) Unless a trainee is a college graduate, he
						must receive during the course of his training program a minimum of 40 clock hours
						of recitation or instruction in the subjects covered in clinical laboratory work
						other than that received as practical training in the laboratory. Any laboratory
						school approved for specialist or limited technologist training must provide the
						department with adequately documented workload and program information and must
						comply with the minimum requirements heretofore stated in that special field of
						training.
(7) The requirements for the
						members of the teaching staff must be those considered minimum for licensure, and in
						addition, persons with an advanced degree in one or more of the fields covered in
						the curriculum may be included on the teaching staff.
(8) The director of any school shall supply
						sufficient information to the department to satisfy the department that adequate
						specimen material will be made available for training purposes.
(9) There shall be available to persons receiving
						training a technical library adequate in the number of copies of each text
						book.
(10) The names and addresses of
						persons receiving training are to be reported to the department at the time of
						entrance to course and again at completion of course.
(11) The department may require such other
						information as may be necessary to satisfactorily evaluate the application for
						approval including periodic on-site reviews.
(12) Approval for training granted by the
						department pursuant to requirements of this section may be denied or withdrawn if
						the school is unable to meet or maintain these requirements.