Master’s Project I

Catalog description

This 4-week graduate-level Medical Laboratory Science course is a supervised clinical research experience in which each student will be required to develop a research project in collaboration with a laboratory manager, clinical laboratory science educator, clinical investigator, or laboratory utilization specialist. The research project should focus on a technical application of their clinical laboratory knowledge in experimental testing methods, assay development, optimization, quality control, or method comparison in a research setting. Students will be asked to develop and complete a concise, hypothesis-driven project that allows the student to demonstrate the practical applicability of their acquired knowledge in the MLS field with guidance from the course director and their assigned mentor. Students will be required to perform experiments, gather, and analyze data with the assistance of their mentor, and complete a literature review. These materials will be used to write draft manuscript sections (introduction and materials and methods) with the assistance of the mentor and course director that will be submitted to the course director for review and feedback. Students will also be required to submit weekly self-assessments of their progress and meet with the course director as a cohort weekly during the experience.