The program courses and activities are designed to teach the necessary technical skills and help students enhance their critical thinking abilities and interpersonal skills. It includes:
- 96 hours of theory and laboratory practice at the CLC's well-equipped labs and through lectures, CD and DVD tutorials, Web resources, 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) as full-time student-trainees, under the supervision of professional Medical Technologists and/or Phlebotomists.
Career Certificate
- Phlebotomy Technician Certificate (Plan 21MP)
Courses
Course |
Credit
Hours |
Lect. Hours
per week |
Lab Hours
per week |
No. of
Weeks |
Total
Hours |
PBT 110 |
2 |
4 |
8 |
4 |
48 |
PBT 115 |
2 |
4 |
8 |
4 |
48 |
PBT 116 |
2 |
|
40 |
3 |
120 |
Total |
6 |
|
|
|
224 |
*NOTE: Effective August 2010, the phlebotomy course prefixes have changed from MLT to PBT.
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.