Clinical Practicum

Catalog description

Pre-requisites: CITO 6505, CITO 6507, CITO 6509, CITO 6515, CITO 6516, CITO 6517. This course will provide clinical experiences designed to enable students in the processing, evaluation and interpretation of cytological specimens, and in the management of laboratory activities as similar as possible to the ones that they will encounter as health professionals. Students will demonstrate ability to review and evaluate histologic tissue sections, Cytology and pertinent clinical data in order to establish correlation for the purpose of quality control and quality assurance. They will comply with laboratory safety measures and regulations. Throughout the clinical experiences, the students will be able to assist the clinician, in the FNA procedures and in the evaluation of the samples. At the end of the clinical practicum, the student is required to present a final research project.