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CLC's Phlebotomy Certificate Program prepares students with entry level competencies as phlebotomists for employment in hospitals, clinics, blood donor centers, and other health care settings. Students will develop skills in performing phlebotomy procedures, specimen collection and processing.

The program is approved by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences, 5600 N. River Rd., Suite 720, Rosemont, IL 60018-5119.
Phone: (773) 714-8880
E-mail: naaclsinfo@naacls.org
Web site: www.naacls.org

The program courses and activities are designed to teach the necessary technical skills and help students enhance their critical thinking abilities and interpersonal skills during:

  • 96 hours of theory and laboratory practice at the CLC's well-equipped labs on campus with lectures, CD and DVD tutorials, the Web, practice arms, and real arms (students work on each other).
  • A clinical practicum during which students spend eight hours a day, five days a week, for three weeks at clinical sites (hospitals or physician's office labs) for real, hands-on experience, as full-time student-trainees, under the supervision of professional Medical Technologists and/or Phlebotomists.
Course Credit Hours Lect. Hours per week Lab. Hours per week # Weeks Total Hours
MLT110 2 4 8 4 48
MLT115 2 4 8 4 48
MLT116 2   40 3 120
Total 6       224

CLC's PBT Certificate Program can be completed in 11 weeks of diligent work (the fast-track). CLC awards a certificate upon successful completion of the program, and graduates of this program are eligible to sit for testing by nationally recognized certifying agencies.

For details, view the phlebotomy program in the catalog*.

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