Future Students

Admission

Each year the Clinical Laboratory Science Program selects a limited number of students from the applications received. Application forms for admission to the professional program are available after December 1 from the Office of the Assistant Director of Admissions, WVU Health Sciences Center, P.O.Box 9815, Morgantown, WV 26506-9815. The application fee is $25.00 for residents and $45.00 for non-residents. The priority date for returning the application form is February 15. The deadline for all applications is March 1, if the student expects to enter the program the following fall semester. In the event the class is not filled by those applications, the deadline may be extended until as late as the first business day in August.

Although not required for admission to the Clinical Laboratory Science Program, eight credits of Organic Chemistry and eight credits of Physics are suggested as electives for those students interested in applying to medical school.

Direct Admit Program:

Students may be admitted directly into the Clinical Laboratory Science Program with a high school GPA of 3.75, and a minimum math component ACT score of 26 or a minimum math component SAT score of 600. These students are automatically admitted to the professional program as long as they meet all admission criteria. In addition to the above requirements, direct admit students are required to take MTEC 100, 101, 200 and 201.

Grade Point Average:

2.5 Cumulative and Science

Interview:

Qualified applicants may be interviewed by the Clinical Laboratory Science Admissions Committee

Letters of Recommendation:

Two Letters of Recommendation are required; at least one must be from a College Science Professor

Career Laddering Mechanism:

A career ladder curriculum is available for qualified medical laboratory technicians/clinical laboratory technicians.

For further information, please call 304-293-2069 or e-mail: MedLabSci@hsc.wvu.edu

Application

Applications for the Clinical Laboratory Science Program are available for Pre-MLS students (application not required for direct admit students) from the WVU Health Sciences Center Admissions & Records office from December 1 to March 1 of each year and at the Web address below at any time. In the event that the class is not filled by those applicants, the deadline will be extended.

http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/medsci/Education/Prospective-Students

Please contact the program at MedLabSci@hsc.wvu.edu for information.

Financial Aid/Scholarship

For information about scholarships, loans, and grants, prospective students should contact the University Financial Aid Office: Click Here

B.F. Love Scholarship:
This scholarship is awarded to the student (s) with the highest grade-point average in the clinical laboratory science program at the end of the junior year.

Medical Technology Alumni Scholarship:
This scholarship is awarded to student (s) in the clinical laboratory science program on the basis of need, scholarship, and future potential.

Van Liere Loan Fund:
The purpose of this loan is to assist students who experience emergency financial problems (such as delays in obtaining loans or other funds). Applications are received through the Health Sciences Center Financial Aid Office. The loan fund is only available to students in the professional (junior or senior years) program.

Dane Moore, Jr., Scholarship:
This scholarship is awarded to a student with the best performance in microbiology, parasitology, and mycology at the end of the junior year.

Peggy Jean Witt Williams Memorial Scholarship:
This scholarship is awarded to an incoming junior-year student, based on academic ranking and financial need.

Mark Erwin Memorial Scholarship:
This scholarship is selected by the class at the end of their junior year and awarded to the student who exhibits the following characteristics: friendship, loyalty, trust, willingness to help fellow students, and support of WVU.

Frederick “Dutch” and Doris Lange Holter Memorial Scholarship:
This scholarship is awarded to an incoming senior year student for the summer semesters. It is based on financial need and the ability to succeed in the program.

Essential Functions

In accordance with Section 304 of the 1973 Vocational Rehabilitation Act, the West Virginia University Clinical Laboratory Science Program has adopted minimum essential functions (technical standards) for assessment of all applicants to the Medical Technology Program. Because the Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Laboratory Science signifies that the holder has obtained minimum competencies in all areas of the clinical laboratories, it follows that graduates must have the knowledge and skills to function in a wide variety of laboratory situations and to perform a wide variety of procedures.

Candidates for the Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Laboratory Science must have somatic sensation and the functional use of the sense of vision and hearing. Candidates diagnostic skills will also be lessened without the functional use of the sense of equilibrium, smell, and taste. Additionally they must have sufficient motor function to permit them to carry out the activities described in the sections that follow. They must be able to consistently, quickly, and accurately integrate all information received by whatever sense(s) employed, and they must have the intellectual ability to learn, integrate, analyze, and synthesize data.

A candidate for the Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Laboratory Science must have abilities and skills including observation, communication, motor, conceptual, integrative, quantitative, behavioral, and social. Technological compensation can be made for some handicaps in certain of these areas but a candidate should be able to perform in a reasonably independent manner. The use of a trained intermediary means that a candidate's judgment must be mediated by someone else's power of selection and observation

1. Observation: The candidate must be able to observe demonstrations, procedures and instruments in the basic sciences and clinical courses. Observation necessitates the functional use of the sense of vision and somatic sensation. It is enhanced by the functional use of the sense of smell.
2. Communication: A candidate should be able to speak, to hear, and to observe people in order to elicit information and perceive nonverbal communications. A candidate must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in oral and written form with members of the health care team.
3. Motor: Candidates should have sufficient motor function to perform laboratory procedures. This action requires the coordination of both gross and fine muscular movements, equilibrium, and functional use of the senses of touch and vision.
4. Intellectual - Conceptual, Integrative, and Quantitative Abilities: These abilities include measurement, calculation, reasoning, analysis, and synthesis. Problem solving requires all of these intellectual abilities. In addition, the candidate should be able to comprehend three dimensional relationships and to understand spatial relationships of structures.
5. Behavioral and Social Attributes: A candidate must possess the emotional health required for full utilization of his/her judgment, the prompt completion of all responsibilities, and the development of mature, sensitive relationships with patients. Candidates must be able to tolerate physically taxing workloads and to function effectively under stress. They must be able to adapt to changing environments, to display flexibility and to learn to function in the face of uncertainties. Compassion, integrity, concern for others, interpersonal skills, interest, and motivation are all personal qualities that should be assessed during admissions and education process.

In its evaluation of applicants to the West Virginia University Clinical Laboratory Science Program, the Admissions committee will approach each applicant with the following questions in mind. When an applicant does not meet a non-academic standard as defined above, and when this would in the professional judgment of the Committee not satisfy the Clinical Laboratory Science objectives for the student in performing laboratory procedures, education, and research, such opinion will be documented by the Admissions Committee.