The interdisciplinary curriculum of the clinical laboratory science major is concentrated in the natural sciences with special emphasis on biology and chemistry. Students stay on campus for the first three years of the program and spend their senior year in a hospital based clinical internship.
At Canisius, this learning experience is one of quality and value enhanced by small class sizes. The full-time professors you will encounter are trained professionals who hold doctoral degrees in their areas of expertise. During the clinical internship, the faculty will consist of PhD's, pathologists and others recognized for their experience in the various sub-specialties of laboratory medicine.
Our program prepares graduates to analyze human blood and body fluids which aid in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases. Clinical Laboratory Scientists conduct such tests as typing and crossmatching of blood and blood components, drug monitoring (for therapeutic and illegal drugs), identifying infectious microorganisms and their susceptibility to specific treatments, determining a patients genetic predisposition to a variety of inherited diseases, and identifying anemias, leukemias and other blood disorders.