Courses in Clinical Laboratory Science/Medical Technology

"P" refers to a course prerequisite and "C" to a course that must be taken concurrently.

AHLT C401 General Externship I (2 cr.) Supervised clinical experience in clinical chemistry. Student rotates through various areas of clinical chemistry.

AHLT C402 General Externship II (2 cr.) Supervised clinical experience in clinical hematology. Student rotates through various areas of clinical hematology and coagulation.

AHLT C403 General Externship III (2 cr.) Supervised clinical experience in clinical microbiology. Student rotates through various areas of microbiology, serology, virology, and parasitology.

AHLT C404 Hemostasis (1 cr.) 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.

AHLT C405 General Externship IV (2 cr.) Supervised clinical experience in blood banking. Student rotates through various areas of modern blood bank, including donor room, transfusion service, antibody identification, component therapy, transplantation therapy, and quality control.

AHLT C406 Clinical Chemistry (4 cr.) 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.

AHLT C407 Hematology (3 cr.) Study of functions, 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.

AHLT C408 Principles of Immunohematology (1 cr.) 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.

AHLT C409 Serology (1 cr.) 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.

AHLT C410 Urine Analysis (2 cr.) Routine urine examination and special tests; laboratory and special lectures.

AHLT 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.

AHLT C412 Topics in Medical Technology (3 cr.) Selected topics in medical technology covered by lecture and clinical experience.

AHLT C413 Clinical Correlation and Theory (2 cr.) Lectures in theoretical and clinical areas designed to emphasize the relationship between laboratory tests and disease states.

AHLT 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.

AHLT C421 Diagnostic Microbiology Laboratory (2 cr.) Laboratory experience in the performance of skills and procedures needed for the isolation, identification, and susceptibility testing of clinically significant microorganisms.

AHLT C424 Hemostasis Techniques (1 cr.) Laboratory course emphasizing the major screening and definitive test for the evaluation of normal and abnormal hemostasis. Tests will include evaluation of platelets, blood vessels, coagulation, and fibrinolysis.

AHLT C426 Clinical Chemistry Instrumentation and Methodologies (2 cr.) 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.

AHLT C427 Hematologic Techniques and Procedures (3 cr.) 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.

AHLT C428 Techniques in Immunohematology (1 cr.) Emphasis on laboratory techniques used in blood banks, including blood typing, crossmatching, antibody identification, record keeping, and quality control.

AHLT C429 Serology Laboratory (1 cr.) Laboratory experience in performance of various testing procedures utilized in serologic diagnosis of infectious diseases and various syndromes. Techniques include precipitation, flocculation, and various hemagglutination and hemagglutination inhibition techniques, fluorescent antibody testing, and complement fixation.

AHLT 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), and pathologic smears.

AHLT C432 Hematology II (2 cr.)^* P: C431. C432 and C434 offer more experience than C431 allows in the same techniques and offer additional techniques such as sedimentation rate, hematocrit, and the figuring of indices.

AHLT C434 Hematology III (2 cr.)^* P: C431, C432. Continuation of practice and experience in hematologic techniques. Individual projects assigned if student is sufficiently advanced.

AHLT C440 Bacteriology I (2 cr.)^* Diagnostic procedures as means to familiarize student with techniques; work on specimens received from hospital patients under supervision; practical experience with all types of human specimens for bacteriologic and mycologic study.

AHLT C441 Bacteriology II (2 cr.)^* P: 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.

AHLT C442 Bacteriology III (2 cr.)^* P: C440, C441. At the end of this course, student should be able to handle usual and somewhat unusual hospital bacteriologic and mycologic problems independently.

AHLT C450 Serology I (2 cr.)^* Introduction to serologic and immunologic principles.

AHLT C451 Serology II (2 cr.)^* P: C450. Additional experience (for students with satisfactory proficiency in C450) in adapting complement fixation, agglutination, hemagglutination, precipitin, and flocculation techniques to diagnostic procedures.

AHLT C460 Clinical Hematology (6-8 cr.) Lecture and clinical experiences related to the functions, maturation, morphology, and clinical laboratory evaluation of blood cells and cellular elements in body fluids. Laboratory evaluation of hemostasis. Techniques, instrumentation, and quality control routinely used in the hematology department of a clinical laboratory.

AHLT C461 Clinical Analysis of Urine and Body Fluids (1-2 cr.) Lecture and clinical experiences in the biochemical, physical, and microscopic examination of urine and other body fluids.

AHLT C462 Clinical Microbiology and Mycology (6-8 cr.) Lecture and clinical experiences in the isolation, identification, and susceptibility testing of medically important microorganisms and fungi. Techniques, instrumentation, and quality control routinely used in the microbiology department of a clinical laboratory.

AHLT C463 Clinical Parasitology (1-2 cr.) Lecture and clinical experiences, collection and processing of specimens, identification techniques, and diseases associated with clinically significant parasites.

AHLT C464 Clinical Serology (2-3 cr.) Lecture and clinical experiences in immunology as applied to the serologic diagnosis of infectious diseases and various syndromes. Technology, instrumentation, and quality control routinely used in the serology department of a clinical laboratory.

AHLT C465 Clinical Chemistry (8 cr.) Lecture and clinical experiences in the application of analytical methods for the clinical detection of disorders. Techniques, instrumentation, and quality control routinely used in the clinical chemistry department of a clinical laboratory.

AHLT C466 Clinical Immunohematology
(3-4 cr.) Lecture and clinical experience in serologic principles and methods for safe transfusion practice. Techniques, instrumentation, and quality control routinely used in the blood bank department of a clinical laboratory.

AHLT C467 Professional Development Topics in Medical Technology (1-4 cr.) Lectures and exercises in principles of supervision for the medical laboratory, and teaching and evaluation in the clinical setting.

AHLT C471 Clinical Chemistry I (2 cr.)^* Training and experience with more frequently used chemistry tests, e.g., determination of glucose and urea nitrogen; automated and manual methods.

AHLT C472 Clinical Chemistry II (2 cr.)^* P: C471. Limited experience with less frequently performed special procedures.

AHLT C473 Clinical Chemistry III (2 cr.)^* P: C471 and C472. Special equipment utilization; preparation and maintenance of solutions.

AHLT C476 Chemistry IV (2 cr.)^* P: C471, C472. Advanced procedures, method developments, special projects.

AHLT C477 Chemistry V (2 cr.)^* P: C471, C472. Training and experience in special technical and methodological microprocedures.

AHLT 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 pretransfusion techniques and safety practices. Other blood types, antigen-antibody relationships with techniques for demonstrating them. Elementary knowledge of genetics is helpful.

AHLT C492 Blood Bank II (2 cr.)^* P: 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.

AHLT C493 Blood Bank III (2 cr.)^* P: C491, C492. Required for students working toward special certificate in blood banking. Emphasis on supervision, reference techniques, and such accessory functions as plasma production.