Graduate Career-Entry Competencies

Upon satisfactory completion of the Clinical Program, the intern meets or exceeds the following career-entry competencies:

• Proficient in performing a wide range of clinical laboratory tests in areas such as: 
  • Hematology
  • Clinical chemistry
  • Immunohematology
  • Microbiology
  • Serology/immunology
  • Coagulation
  • Molecular diagnostics
  • Other emerging diagnostics
• Perform a role in the development and evaluation of test systems and interpretive algorithms
• Prepared to:
  • Problem-solve and troubleshoot pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical components of laboratory services.
  • Develop, evaluate, correlate and assure accuracy and validity of laboratory information
  • Direct and supervise clinical laboratory resource and operations
  • Collaborate in the diagnosis and treatment of patients
• Prepared to take on diverse responsibilities in areas:
  • Analysis and clinical decision-making (e.g., critical pathways)
  • Information management
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Quality assurance/performance improvement wherever laboratory testing is researched, developed or performed
• Possess requisite knowledge, skills and relevant experiences in:
  • Communications to enable consultative interactions with members of the healthcare team, external relations, customer service and patient education
  • Financial, operations, marketing, and human resource management of the clinical laboratory to enable cost-effective, high-quality, value-added laboratory services
  • Information management to enable effective, timely, accurate, and cost-effective reporting of laboratory-generated information
  • Research design/practice sufficient to evaluate published studies as an informed consumer
  • Education to enable teaching laboratory professionals, other health care professionals, and others in laboratory practice, as well as the public
• Practice independently and collaboratively, being responsible for own actions, as defined by the profession. Interns exhibit: 
  • High ethical standards, moral attitudes and principles necessary for gaining and maintaining the confidence of patients, professional associates and the community
  • A sense of responsibility and commitment to patients, peers and other professionals
  • A sense of self-confidence and pride in the profession
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills
  • A capacity for calm and reasoned judgment
  • Responsibility for own work and decisions
  • A high regard for the dignity of individual life
  • A respect for confidentiality
  • A spirit of professionalism
• Provide service and research in clinical laboratory science and related areas in a rapidly changing and dynamic healthcare delivery systems