Medical Laboratory Technician

Associate Degree Program

The Medical Laboratory Technician associate degree program is a nationally accredited program that prepares the student who wishes to seek employment as a medical laboratory technician. Medical laboratory technicians perform routine laboratory procedures on blood, tissue, and other bodily fluids. As a medical laboratory technician, you will work under a medical laboratory scientist to report lab results to medical personnel, focus on blood banking, hematology, immunology, or microbiology. After graduation, you will be prepared to work in a laboratory setting and can be employed as a technician in research centers, pharmaceutical laboratories or biomedical laboratories, or as a quality control technician in food processing or manufacturing companies.

Upon successful completion of this program, you will be eligible to sit for the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) registry exam for Medical Laboratory Technicians.

Offered at the following campus(es): Georgetown

What You Can Do

In this program, you will gain the knowledge and skills to prepare you for positions such as:

• Hospitals
• Research Centers
• Biomedical laboratories
• Commercial labs
• Food processing companies
• Manufacturing companies
• Clinics
• Public health facilities
• Pharmaceutical Industry

What You Will Learn

Program Graduate Competencies

The Program Graduate Competencies listed below identify the major learning goals related to your specific program of study and identify the knowledge and skills you will have when you graduate to be successful in your chosen field.

1. Collect, process, and analyze biological specimens and other related substances.
2. Recognize factors that affect procedures and results, and take appropriate actions within predetermined limits when corrections are indicated.
3. Perform and monitor quality control within predetermined limits.
4. Apply basic scientific principles for application in medical laboratory procedures and methodologies.
5. Employ safety principles according to health and environmental regulations.
6. Correlate laboratory results with common disease processes and treatments for diagnosis.
7. Demonstrate professional conduct and interpersonal communication skills with patients, laboratory personnel, other healthcare personnel, and the public.

Core Curriculum Competencies

The Core Curriculum Competencies listed below identify what you will be able to do as a graduate, regardless of your program of study. You will acquire these core competencies through general education courses and program-specific coursework. You will be expected to use relevant technology to achieve these outcomes:

1. Apply clear and effective communication skills.
2. Use critical thinking to solve problems.
3. Collaborate to achieve a common goal.
4. Demonstrate professional and ethical conduct.
5. Use information literacy for effective vocational and/or academic research.
6. Apply quantitative reasoning and/or scientific inquiry to solve practical problems.

Suggested Pathway to Graduation

Pursuing a Bachelor's Degree?

This is a Connected Degree program that enables you to complete your associate degree and then transfer to a four-year degree program as a junior. See a program advisor for details!