Medical Laboratory Technician - Moberly Area Community College

Medical Laboratory Technician from Moberly Area Community College is a Campus Associate Clinical Laboratory degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. Medical Laboratory Technicians (also known as Clinical Laboratory Technicians) occupy an essential niche on the healthcare team. This group of professionals focuses on laboratory specimens and techniques that provide physicians with test results for medical decisions. The breadth of knowledge needed to function in this profession includes phlebotomy, immunology, hematology, clinical chemistry, immunohematology or blood banking, clinical microbiology, urinalysis and body fluids, and molecular methods. As a Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT) student, your education is experiential and cooperative, an internship, an apprenticeship, and job shadowing. In seven MLT classes, you attend lectures at the Advanced Technology Center in Mexico, Missouri, are employed in student laboratory activities, and acquire skills in the clinical laboratories of affiliates. The last semester of your training is a nine-week intensive period spent at clinical sites. The MLT program prepares you to assume responsibility in various laboratory settings, medical or non-medical, clinical diagnostic or research, hospital or reference laboratories. The curriculum includes the following: Orientation Training in phlebotomy Lecture (didactic) in various disciplines of laboratory science Practical training in the student laboratory Individual rotations through clinical departments of our affiliates Written and practical examinations throughout the curriculum View more details on Moberly Area Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Clinical Laboratory courses.