Dec 03, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog with Addendum 
    
2024-2025 Catalog with Addendum

Medical Laboratory Technology, AAS

Location(s): Central Campus


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Medical Laboratory Technology is an exciting profession that works behind the scenes to assist in diagnosing patients with different disease states such as diabetes, heart disease, anemias, leukemias, and infections by performing laboratory tests on blood and body fluids. You will be responsible for specimen collection techniques, ensuring laboratory equipment is working properly, identifying cellular elements under a microscope, preparing units of blood for transfusion, and culturing bacteria to determine the species and which antibiotics are effective for the patient’s infection. Our Medical Laboratory Technology AAS offers you a two-year program designed to provide understanding, proficiency and skill in medical laboratory technology to work in a hospital, clinic, or reference lab.

Our faculty guide you through a curriculum of general education and medical laboratory technology courses, offering you the opportunity for specialized workforce development and occupational experience. Practical experience is a part of our program, and you will be assigned to one or more of the affiliated hospitals and laboratories under the general supervision of a clinical preceptor.

When you have completed our program, you will have entry-level competency in all areas of a clinical laboratory. Additionally, you will be eligible to apply for admission to sit for the certification examination administered by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP), American Medical Technologists (AMT), or other certifying agencies for medical laboratory technology. This program is accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Science (NAACLS), 5600 N. River Rd., Suite 720, Rosemont, IL 60018; telephone 773-714-8880; fax 773-714-8886; email naaclsinfo@naacls.org; website www.naacls.org.

Please see www.tjc.edu/mlt for information on how to apply to this Selective Admissions  program.

Marketable skills for this award include: analytical/quantitative skills, critical thinking, flexibility/adaptability, multi-tasking, organizational skills and problem solving.

 

Associate of Applied Science

Major Courses: 36 Credits


General Education Requirements: 24 Credits


Every Associate of Applied Science degree plan must contain at least 15 semester hours of general education courses. At least one course must be taken from each of the following areas: humanities/fine arts (language, philosophy & culture/creative arts), social/behavioral science (social and behavioral sciences/American history/government/political science), and natural science/mathematics (life and physical sciences/mathematics).

Major Courses: 36
General Education Requirements: 24

Total Semester Hours: 60


Recommended Course Sequence:


Prerequisite*


First Semester


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Third Semester


Total Semester Hours: 60


Courses titled in bold type represent general education courses and may be taken prior to acceptance into the program.

*BIOL 2401  or CHEM 1406  or CHEM 1411  must be completed with a ”C” or better before application to the medical laboratory technology program. Students substituting CHEM 1406  or CHEM 1411  as the prerequisite for BIOL 2401  will still be required to complete BIOL 2401  as part of the AAS degree.

Selective Admissions  and retention rules apply. Department-specific courses must be taken in sequence and may have a prerequisite course. Major courses and science courses must be completed with a “C” or better for degree completion. Contact the department chair for details.

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