Description
This course provides and introduction to basic microbiology specimen collection, processing, and handling. The capstone course provides opportunity for an integration of program coursework, knowledge, skills, and experiential learning enabling the student to demonstrate achievement of skills learned from PH104, PH125, and PH131, PH132. The clinical practicum is designed to give the medical laboratory technician student experience in a clinical setting. Affiliated medical laboratories will provide students with observation, practice, and performance of laboratory tests and procedures. Students will rotate through phlebotomy, hematology, hemostasis, urinalysis and body fluids, chemistry, serology, microbiology, and immunohematology.