Educational Commitments

In order to create the appropriate educational environment, the School of Medical  Technology provides:

• A structured curriculum that meets NAACLS accreditation requirements
• Physical facilities to meet the educational needs of the interns
• Faculty who have teaching skills, like to teach, and by example, will encourage the intern to develop motivation, scientific curiosity, professional behavior and an interest in establishing meaningful goals
• A sufficient quantity and variety of specimens, procedures, instrumentation, technology and methodology for intern practice and experience in order to achieve the competencies that embody excellence in laboratory practice
• Resources, e.g. library facilities, textbooks, journals, conferences, instructional technology related to intern learning activities
• Program goals; lecture, clinical rotation and professional objectives; minimum performance criteria
• A scheduled rotation assignment at clinical laboratory facilities and a schedule of lecture presentations

The School of Medical Technology also:

• Arranges with other laboratories for demonstration or practice in any area not represented within the School’s facilities
• Teaches professional ethics by demonstrating technologist responsibility to the patient, community, co-workers and themselves
• Evaluates and provides permanent records of intern performance
• Grades and/or evaluates the intern solely upon performance measured against academic standards (Intern shall NOT be graded or performance evaluated on the basis of race, color, creed, sex or national origin)
• Provides a mechanism for intern evaluation of facilities, faculty and curriculum
• Provides a certificate upon satisfactory completion of the Clinical Program