Graduate Certificate in Immunohematology
The Graduate Certificate in Immunohematology is a 13-credit hour, post-baccalaureate certificate program administered by the Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) Program.
Graduate Certificate in Immunohematology students will complete 150 clinical contact hours in an immunohematology laboratory in MLS 516. Graduate certificate students who currently work in a medical laboratory may be able to be exempted from a portion of the required clinical contact hours.
Students must have at least one year of experience working in a medical laboratory to be eligible to request an exemption from a portion of the clinical contact hour requirement. Requests for exempted clinical contact hours will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis and will require official verification of employment and clinical competence by a direct supervisor.
Documentation of clinical competence will be modeled after ASCP’s official discipline-specific experience documentation required for experiential certification routes (i.e., routes 2 and 4) in immunohematology(i.e., blood bank). The maximum allowable clinical contact hour exemption will be 70 hours.
Requirements
| Required Courses | ||
| MLS 425 | Laboratory Operations | 2 |
| MLS 448 | Introduction to Immunology | 3 |
| MLS 449 | Introductory Immunology Lab | 1 |
| MLS 468 | Immunohematology | 4 |
| MLS 516 | Categorical Graduate Practicum | 3 |
| Total Hours | 13 | |