Increased Skills and Student Retention After Additional Clinical Chemistry Laboratory Implementation: An Intervention of an Enrichment Pilot Program in Medical Laboratory Science

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Table 1.

Program schedule

Date	Lab #	Topics
January 25 or March 22	Lab 1	Introduction, pipetting, samples, centrifugation, dilution math
February 1 or March 29	Lab 2	Spectrophotometry I, colorimetry math
February 8 or April 5	Lab 3	Spectrophotometry II, graphing and standard curve math
February 15 or April 12	Lab 4	Microscopy I, metric math
February 22 or April19	Lab 5	Microscopy II, math review
March 1 or April 26	Lab 6	Written and practical exam

Table 2.

MLS 443: Clinical Biochemistry I course grades Fall 2018

Cohort	Average Course Grade	Previous 3-Year Average	P Value	95% Confidence Interval
Entire MLS 443 class (including those who did not take the pilot program) n = 28	78.591	79.663	^*.434158	−1.5931, 3.6783
Students who took the pilot program n = 14	79.551	79.633	^*.960596	−3.2993, 3.4641
Students who did not take the pilot program n = 14	77.630	79.633	^*.204331	−1.1438, 5.1494

Table 3.

MLS 444: Clinical Biochemistry II course grades Spring 2019

Cohort	Average Course Grade	Previous 3-Year Average	P Value	95% Confidence Interval
Entire MLS 444 class (including those who did not take the pilot program) n = 28	87.001	81.365	^*.000012	−7.9023, −3.3679
Students who took the pilot program n = 14	88.205	81.365	^*.000000	−8.6589, −5.0201
Students who did not take the pilot program n = 14	85.704	81.365	^*.046963	−8.6084, −0.0676