The educational program in clinical laboratory science is located on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus, Indiana University Medical Center. Mission Statement The mission of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis is to provide a quality education in the knowledge, skills, and professional attitudes required to follow good laboratory practice in providing quality testing for the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of disease. Goal Statements The goals of the Clinical Laboratory Science are to prepare graduates who:
- engage in good laboratory practice,
- participate as an effective member of the health care team,
- successfully complete national certification examinations, and
- value active participation in professional organizations.
To accomplish these goals, the program faculty fosters the development of critical thinking and life-long learning skills as well as evaluates overall program effectiveness through outcomes assessment.
DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM
Clinical laboratory science is a diverse, science-based profession aimed at accurate performance of clinical laboratory procedures on biologic samples from patients. Physicians use the results from these procedures in diagnosing, monitoring, and treating diseases. Some of the tasks that clinical laboratory scientists perform are listed below:
- Analysis of simple/complex chemical components of body fluids
- Evaluation of cellular components of blood
- Identification of microorganisms and their antibiotic susceptibilities
- Preparation of blood components for patient therapy
- Evaluation of new techniques, procedures, and instruments
These laboratory personnel continually evaluate the quality of the results from procedures and instruments and solve any problems that relate to inconsistencies. Excellent communication skills are required to interact with other members of the health care team, to teach, and to manage individuals under their supervision. Clinical laboratory scientists typically work in laboratories located in hospitals, clinics, physician group practices, blood centers, medical research facilities, or medically oriented industries.
Graduates of the Program Students who successfully complete the senior/professional year of the clinical laboratory science program and have a baccalaureate degree are eligible to take national certification examinations. Nationally recognized certification is a requirement for employment in many settings. Credentials Required to Practice MT(ASCP), Medical Technologist or CLS(NCA), Clinical Laboratory Scientist Licensure Requirements to Practice There is no state licensure in Indiana; however, some states require licensure in addition to or instead of national certification.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Medical Director: Professor Eble
Program Co-Directors: Associate Professor Marler and Professor Leland
Professors: Allen, Davis, Rodak, Ryder
Associate Professors: Baenziger, Blue
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EDUCATION PROGRAM |
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| Length of Program Clinical laboratory science is a four-year baccalaureate degree program that is typically full-time days; however, some part-time day positions are available. The program is structured in a 3 + 1 arrangement in which three years are spent in regular college courses in order to complete prerequisite courses, and the fourth year is the senior/professional year. The professional year includes both didactic and supervised clinical education experiences. | Description of program facilities The Clinical Laboratory Science Program has program offices, a classroom, and a student laboratory located on the fourth floor of Fesler Hall. Location of Clinical Education Sites Facilities utilized for clinical experiences include University Hospital, Riley Hospital, Wishard Memorial Hospital, and Richard Roudebush Veterans Administration Medical Center. |
| Accreditation The Clinical Laboratory Science Program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis is fully accredited by the: National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences, 410 West Bryn Mawr Avenue Suite 670, Chicago, IL 60631, Phone (773) 714-8880 | Opportunity for Students to Work Students who must work should limit employment hours to 8-10 hours a week if possible. |
| Additional Cost In addition to regular university tuition and fees, the student should expect to pay for program-related expenses. Contact program for current cost estimate sheet. | |
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ADMISSION |
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| General Information Students accepted into the program must complete the program admission requirements before the first day of classes. Admission to the professional program is competitive; therefore, completion of the prerequisites does not guarantee admission to the program. Criteria Used for Selection of Class Cumulative and science/math grade point average, essay, interview, and motivation factors. | Minimum Specific Grade Point Average 2.50 on a 4.00 scale in science and mathematics courses. This requirement is applied at the time of program application and must be maintained. Grades from remedial courses are not used in this calculation. Minimum Grade in a Stated Prerequisite Course C (2.00 on a 4.00 scale) in all required courses. |
| Specific Requirements In addition to the Health Professions Programs' admission policies and procedures found at the beginning of this section of the bulletin, the following admission policies apply to the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at IUPUI. | Minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average 2.50 on a 4.00 scale. This requirement is applied at the time of program application and must be maintained. Grades from remedial courses are not used in this calculation. |
| Interview Applicants must complete the interview process. Interviews are scheduled between November and January. | Volunteer Experience While volunteer experience is not required, it is very helpful to the applicant in making a career choice. |
| Limitations of Course Work Courses in chemistry (upper level), microbiology, and immunology must have been completed within the previous six years. | Distribution of Credit Hours in Specific Hours Applicants must complete at least 18 credit hours in the biological sciences and 18 credit hours in chemistry. See prerequisite list. |
| Application Deadline December 1 of the year before desired entry into the senior/professional year. | Indiana Residents Preference Policy See Health Professions Programs policy. |
| Technical Standards See Health Professions Programs policy. | Class Size 12 students |
| Application forms can be downloaded online at http://msa.iusm.iu.edu/hpp/admissions or can be requested by calling the Clinical Laboratory Science Program Office at 317-491-6969 | |
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CURRICULUM PREREQUISITES |
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| Before entering the program, students must complete the following minimum prerequisites. Students should consult with their academic advisors for appropriate courses and semester sequence in order to complete prerequisites. Prerequisites may be taken at any accredited college or university. The code "G" indicates a course that meets the school's general-education requirements. Written Communication (G) 2 courses; Verbal Communications (G) 3 credits; Humanities (G) 3 credits; Social/Behavioral Science (G) 6 credits. | |
| Biological Sciences Applicant must complete, by entry date, at least 18 credit hours or the equivalent of biology, to include the following courses: Introductory Biology (G) Microbiology (with Lab) Genetics Human Physiology Immunology |
Chemistry Applicant must complete, by entry date, at least 18 credit hours or the equivalent of chemistry, to include the following courses: Qualitative (with lab) (G) Quantitative (with lab) Organic I (with lab) Advanced Chemistry Elective |
| Mathematics Applicant must complete, by entry date, the following courses: Mathematics (Algebra and Trigonometry or higher content) (G) Statistics |
Suggested Electives While not inclusive or mandatory, the following is a list of suggested elective areas: Human Anatomy, Introduction To Computers, Medical Terminology, and Medical Microbiology. |
| Suggested Chemistry Electives Organic II, Biochemistry | |
SUGGESTED PLAN OF STUDY
The following is a suggested three-year plan of the prerequisites.
Changes in this schedule can be made.
Students should check with their advisors to make sure all requirements are met.
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FRESHMAN |
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FALL |
SPRING |
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| Elementary Composition I |
3cr |
Speech Communication or Interpersonal Communication |
3cr |
| Algebra and Trigonometry I | Algebra and Trigonometry II |
3cr |
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| Biology-Plants |
5cr |
Biology-Animals |
5cr |
| Principles of Chemistry I (with lab) |
5cr |
Principles of Chemistry II (with lab) |
5cr |
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Total |
16cr |
Total |
16cr |
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SOPHMORE |
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FALL |
SPRING |
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| Organic Chemistry I |
3cr |
Microbiology (with lab) |
3-4cr |
| Organic Chemistry I Lab |
2cr |
Chemistry elective |
3cr |
| Human Physiology |
5cr |
Social/Behavioral Science elective |
3cr |
| Electives |
6cr |
Humanities Elective |
3cr |
| Elective |
3cr |
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Total |
16cr |
Total |
15-16cr |
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JUNIOR |
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FALL |
SPRING |
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| Immunology |
3cr |
Statistics |
3cr |
| Genetics | Social/Behavioral Science elective |
3cr |
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| Electives |
6cr |
Written Communication II |
3cr |
| Electives |
6cr |
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Total |
12cr |
Total |
15cr |
PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM
Courses in the professional program are sequential and must be taken in the order specified by the program faculty.
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FALL |
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SUMMER SESSION I |
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| Diagnostic Medical Microbiology (PATH-C 411) |
4 cr. | Urine Analysis (PATH-C 410) | 2 cr. | General Externship III (PATH-C 403) |
2 cr. |
| Diagnostic Microbiology Laboratory ( PATH-C 421) |
2 cr. | Clinical Chemistry (PATH-C 406) | 4;cr. | General Externship IV (PATH-C 405) |
2 cr. |
| Serology (PATH-C 421) |
1 cr. | Clinical Chemistry Instrumentation & Methodologies (PATH-C 426) | 2 cr. | Topics in Medical Technology (PATH-C 412) | 3 cr. |
| Serology Laboratory (PATH-C 429) |
1 cr. | Mycology/Parasitology (PATH-C 420) | 2 cr. | ||
| Principles of Immunohematology (PATH-C 408) |
1 cr. | Hemostasis (PATH-C 404) | 1 cr. |
Total |
7 cr. |
| Techniques in Immunohematology (PATH-C 428) |
1 cr. | General Externship I (PATH-C 401) | 2 cr. | ||
| Hematology (PATH-C 407) | 3 cr. | General Externship II (PATH-C 402) | 2 cr. | ||
| Hematologic Techniques and Procedures (PATH-C 427) | 3 cr. | ||||
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Total |
18 cr. |
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13 cr. | ||
Scholarships A limited number of scholarships are available for accepted students. Contact the program when notified of admission.
Awards Based on academic performance, the program faculty will recommend students for degrees awarded with distinction in accordance with the school's honors criteria. The program recognizes one superior student meeting specific academic performance criteria for the senior/clinical year with the Clinical Laboratory Science Academic Achievement Award.
Graduation Requirements Satisfactory completion of 128 credit hours to include 90 credit hours of prerequisite and general-education courses and 38 credits of professional courses. All course work must be completed in compliance with the program's and school's academic and professional policies.
For further information, contact: Professor Linda Marler, Co-Director or Professor Diane Leland, Co-Director of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program Fesler Hall 409 1120 W. South Drive Indianapolis, IN 46202-5113 Phone: (317) 274-1264 Fax: (317) 278-0643 E-mail:
Courses in Clinical Laboratory Science "P" refers to a course prerequisite and "C" to a course that must be taken concurrently.
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PATH-C 401 General Externship I (2 cr.) P: PATH-C 406 and PATH-C 426. Supervised clinical experience in clinical chemistry. Student rotates through various areas of clinical chemistry. |
PATH C413 Clinical Correlation and Theory (2 cr.)* Lectures in theoretical and clinical areas designed to emphasize the relationship between laboratory test results and disease states. |
PATH C442 Bacteriology III (2 cr.)* P: PATH C440 and PATH C441. At the end of this course, students should beable to handle usual and somewhat unusual hospital bacteriologic and mycologic problems independently. |
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PATH C402 General Externship II (2 cr.) P: PATH C404, PATH C407, PATH C410. Supervised clinical experience P: PATH C404, PATH C407, PATH C410. Supervised clinical experience in clinical hematology. Student rotates through various areas of clinical hematology, coagulation, and urinalysis. |
PATH C420 Mycology/Parasitology (2 cr.) Lecture and laboratory experience covering clinically significant fungi and parasites. Clinical manifestations, collection and procedures for processing of specimens, and identification techniques will be employed. |
PATH C450 Serology I (2 cr.)* Introduction to serologic and immunologic principles. |
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PATH C403 General Externship III (2 cr.) P: PATH C409, PATH C411, PATH C420, PATH C421, and C429. P: PATH C409, PATH C411, PATH C420, PATH C421, and C429. Supervised clinical experience in clinical microbiology. Student rotates through various areas of microbiology, serology, virology, mycology, and parasitology. |
PATH C421 Diagnostic Microbiology Laboratory (2 cr.) C: PATH C411. Laboratory experience in the performance of skills and procedures needed for the isolation, identification, and susceptibility testing of clinically significant microorganisms. |
PATH C451 Serology II (2 cr.)* P: PATH C450. Additional experience in adapting complement fixation, agglutination, hemagglutination, precipitin, and flocculation techniques to diagnostic procedures. |
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PATH C404 Hemostasis (1 cr.) Hemostasis is a course covering the basic principles of the hemostasis mechanism, Hemostasis is a course covering the basic principles of the hemostasis mechanism, including an overview of the laboratory techniques used to evaluate disorders of hemostasis. Emphasizes the major components of hemostasis, interaction of these components, and laboratory evaluation of the major hemostatic disorders. |
PATH C426 Clinical Chemistry Instrumentation and Methodologies (2 cr.) C: PATH C406. Emphasis is on utilization of basic and intermediate methodologies and instrumentation and their application to assaying a variety of body constituents in a clinical chemistry laboratory. |
PATH C471 Clinical Chemistry I (2 cr.)* Training and experience with more frequently used chemistry tests, e.g., determination of glucose and urea nitrogen by automated and manual methods. |
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PATH C405 General Externship IV (2 cr.) P: PATH C408 and PATH C428. Supervised clinical experience in banking. Student rotates through various areas of modern blood bank, including donor room, transfusion service, antibody identification, component therapy, transplantation therapy, and quality control. |
PATH C427 Hematologic Techniques and Procedures (3 cr.) C: PATH C407. Experience in blood cell identification on stained smears; blood cell, platelet, and reticulocyte counting procedures. Techniques of sedimentation rates, hematocrits, corpuscular indices, hemoglobin determination, and smear preparation staining. Introduction to instrumentation and quality control. Special procedures including bone marrow preparations, flow cytometry, and automated differential counters. |
PATH C472 Clinical Chemistry II (2 cr.)* P: PATH C471. Limited experience with less frequently performed special procedures |
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PATH C406 Clinical Chemistry (4 cr.) C: PATH C426. Emphasis on metabolic processes that maintain chemical C: PATH C426. Emphasis on metabolic processes that maintain chemical homeostasis in humans, the application of clinical chemistry assay values in evaluating the integrity of these processes, and the correlation of abnormal results with metabolic dysfunction and/or disease states. |
PATH C428 Techniques in Immunohematology (1 cr.) C: PATH C408. Emphasis on laboratory techniques used in blood banks, including blood typing, crossmatching, antibody identification, record keeping, and quality control. |
PATH C473 Clinical Chemistry III (2 cr.)* P: PATH C471 and PATH C472. Special equipment utilization; preparation and maintenance of solutions. |
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PATH C407 Hematology (3 cr.) C: PATH C427. Study of functions, maturation, and morphology of blood cells in maturation, and morphology of blood cells in addition to factors regulating production, metabolism, and kinetics of blood cells. The etiologic and morphologic classifications of blood disorders and diseases; correlations with bone marrows and cytochemistries. Study of cellular contents of other body fluids. |
PATH C429 Serology Laboratory (1 cr.) C: PATH C409. Laboratory experience in performance of various testing procedures utilized in serologic diagnosis of infectious diseases and various syndromes. Techniques include precipitation, flocculation, various hemagglutination and hemagglutination inhibition techniques, fluorescent antibody testing, and complement fixation. |
PATH C476 Clinical Chemistry IV (2 cr.)* P: PATH C471, PATH C472, and PATH C473. Advanced procedures, method development, special projects. |
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PATH C408 Principles of Immunohematology (1 cr.) C: PATH C428. Emphasis on major blood group antigens and antibodies including their role in transfusion medicine. Current practices in blood donation, apheresis, and quality control are also covered. |
PATH C431 Hematology I (2 cr.)* Collecting, staining, and counting blood cells; supervised experience with patients. Experience with specimens of spinal fluid, special determinations (platelets, reticulocytes, etc.), and pathologic smears. |
PATH C477 Clinical Chemistry V (2 cr.)* P: PATH C472, PATH C472, PATH C473, and PATH C476. Training and experience in special technical and methodological microprocedures. |
| PATH C409 Serology (1 cr.) C: PATH-C 429. Lectures describing and comparing all pertinent serologic procedures utilized in diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis, rubella, streptococcal disease, syphilis, various febrile conditions, fungal infections, parasite infections, and infectious mononucleosis. Selected lectures in viral culturing methods. |
PATH C432 Hematology II (2 cr.)* P: PATH C431. PATH C432 and PATH C434 offer more experience than PATH-C 431 allows in the same techniques and offer additional techniques such as erythrocyte sedimentation rate, hematocrit, and the calculation of indices. |
PATH C491 Blood Bank I (2 cr.)* Review of serologic principles and technical fundamentals of transfusion practice; comprehensive consideration of blood groups and Rh factors, extensive practice with pre-transfusion techniques and safety practices. Other blood types, antigen-antibody relationships with techniques for demonstrating these. Elementary; knowledge of genetics is helpful. |
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PATH C410 Urine Analysis (2 cr.) Routine urine examination and special tests; laboratory and special lectures. Routine urine examination and special tests; laboratory and special lectures. |
PATH C434 Hematology III (2 cr.)* P: PATH C431 and PATH C432. Continuation of practice and experience in hematologic techniques. Individual projects assigned if student is sufficiently advanced. |
PATH C492 Blood Bank II (2 cr.)* P: PATH C491. Transfusion service bloods provide problem cases in isoimmunization and sensitization, Rh titration, etc. Responsibility for blood bank operation and application to special transfusion problems placed before the student. |
| PATH C411 Diagnostic Medical Microbiology (4 cr.) An in-depth study of the clinically significant microorganisms with special emphasis on their clinical significance, cultural and biochemical characteristics, and susceptibility testing patterns. |
PATH C440 Bacteriology I (2 cr.)* Diagnostic procedures as means to familiarize students with techniques; work on specimens received from hospital patients under supervision; practical experience with all types of human specimens for bacteriologic and mycologic study. |
PATH C493 Blood Bank III (2 cr.)* P: PATH C491 and PATH C492. Required for students working toward special certificate in blood banking. Emphasis on supervision, reference techniques, and such accessory functions as plasma production. |
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PATH C412 Topics in Medical Technology (3 cr.) Selected topics in medical technology covered by lecture and clinical experience.; |
PATH C441 Bacteriology II (2 cr.)* P: PATH C440. Agglutination and precipitin techniques and their special application to agglutination titers and the use of antibiotics. Special assignments to provide experience with organisms infrequently encountered. |
