Trends and Technology: Winter 2005

ONLINE For this issue, I found a listing of graduate schools in the clinical laboratory sciences (CLS), part of a more general web site called gradschools.com. The link to graduate CLS programs is programs.gradschools.com/usaclinical_lab_science.html. The site is not comprehensive, nor is it precisely about CLS—a couple of the listings include grad school degrees in biotechnology or in exercise physiology. For the most part, however, it is a list of graduate schools in the clinical laboratory sciences (36 to date). This might be a good site to use in a clinical laboratory career day setting for college or community college students. Likewise, if your institution does not have its graduate school on this listing, it might be worth exploring a listing. You can also explore the site further by going to www.gradschools.com and searching the school programs by subject; you have to go to “C” to find “Clinical Laboratory Science”.

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