MLT Programs

Medical Laboratory Technology Program
2007-2008

Description
This course of studies is designed to prepare the graduate to work as a member of a clinical laboratory staff. As part of a clinical lab team, graduates will perform scientific laboratory testing to aid in the detection, diagnosis and treatment of disease. The program is accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences.

Often graduates will seek career opportunities in clinical, research reference laboratory or veterinary labs.

Students obtain a background in the basic sciences and an understanding of medical laboratory procedures. The first year of the program is spent in classrooms and in college campus laboratories. The second year is spent on campus in lectures and student laboratories and in participating clinical laboratories under the combined direction of hospital and college personnel. This year covers four quarters.

Upon completion of the second year of the program with a GPA of 2.0 or better, the student is awarded an Associate in Applied Arts and Sciences Degree in Medical Laboratory Technology and is eligible to write national examinations for Medical Laboratory Technicians and Clinical Laboratory technicians. The Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT) student may go through graduation exercises in June and will receive a degree upon completion of the year of clinical training at the end of Summer Quarter.

MLT Application for 2008-2009.pdf
MLT Check list AAS and Certificate of Proficiency.pdf

Degrees and Certificates
  AAAS Degree
  Certificate of Proficiency
  Certificate of Completion Phlebotomy

Advisor
Molly Morse
  mmorse@shoreline.edu, 206-546-6947
MLT Web Site: FAQs and MLT Program Information Meetings

ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS

Students planning to pursue a MLT career should meet the following academic requirements:
1. All entering freshmen must comply with established college
    entrance testing.
2. It is expected that college level credit earned in areas of the physical
    sciences will have been
    completed within the past ten years. Exceptions may be made on
    an individual basis.
3. Certificate of Proficiency pathway is open to students with an
    associate degree or higher. Science prerequisites must be met.
    General Education requirements can be waived; core requirements
    must be met.

SELECTION INTO THE SECOND YEAR OF THE MLT PROGRAM
Selection to the second year of the program is based on successful completion of the academic requirements of the first year and an evaluation of certain personal attributes. Positions may be limited by the number of clinical spaces.

In order to be considered for the second year of the program, students must have completed the first year academic requirements with a grade point average of at least 2.5. These academic requirements include:

1. BioSc 201, 108, 215
2. Chem 101 and 220
3. MLT 197
4. Quantitative Reasoning (CIS 105 or approved alternate)
5. Eng 101
6. PE 292 or three credits of Physical Education and possession of current Red Cross
    First Aid & Adult CPR cards
7. IAStu 102/SpCmu 102 Multicultural Issues
8. BusAd 110 or BusAd 112

Students entering the MLT program will be expected to enroll in and satisfactorily complete MLT 197 in Spring Quarter before beginning the second year of study. In the event that more students finish first year academic requirements than there are available clinical spaces, a selection committee will meet with candidates to consider the following factors:

1. Courses taken and grades received.
2. Ability to communicate.
3. Motivation.
4. Sound physical and mental health.*

*Following acceptance into the program, each individual will be required to submit a health assessment report completed at the student’s expense. Should this report reveal health problems which would interfere with successful completion of the program, admission may be reviewed or revoked by an ad hoc MLT committee. Situations that might disqualify a student could include such things as history of serious emotional problems, incapacitating disease or condition, and/or visual impairment.

All students accepted into the 2nd year Medical Laboratory Technology program will be required to purchase malpractice insurance from the College any quarter they are in a clinical practicum rotation.