clinical laboratory science
FAST FACTS ABOUT CLINICAL LABORATORY STUDIES AT UIS
- Number of Majors, 2009-2010: 42 majors
- Targeted Funds:
Clinical Laboratory Sciences Department Fund, providing general support - K Fund, support for instrumentation
- CLS Student Support Fund, providing travel funds
- Scholarship Funds
Central Illinois Community Blood Center Scholarship
The Health Professions Scholarship - Create Your Own Fund
- Current Needs:
- Scholarships: There's a critical shortage of personnel in this field. Please help our students complete their education and begin their service at a hospital near you. Scholarship funds can help students afford:
1) textbooks
2) travel to remote clinical sites
3) high speed Internet for their online assignments
4) nice shoes/clothes for clinical sites - Travel funds: Our students do a good portion of their training at clinical sites, but we don't have enough locally, so many have to travel. Please help our students pay for this travel. Many are self-supporting and struggle to meet this added expense.
- Real time PCR Light cycler – useful for all 3 science departments and the new molecular concentration, may need a special centrifuge. Approximately $12,000
- New microscopes - $2500-3000 each for clinical-quality scopes with a pointer in the eyepiece. Need 8 Olympus CX31
- Sturdy stand for the 5-head microscope – when students put their elbows down, the microscope goes out of focus. The stand would need to be custom-made for the space in HSB 338. Approximately $3000
- Blood bank reagents and cells – a thorough laboratory experience for the students would cost $15,000 and we can only allocate $5000 for this. An ideal lab would cost about $1000 per student.
- Microbiology plates and supplies – a thorough laboratory experience for the students would cost $14,000 and we can only allocate $4000 for this. An ideal lab would cost about $700 per student.
Phlebotomy arms to practice drawing blood – we replace 2-3 per year, they cost about $70 each.
- Scholarships: There's a critical shortage of personnel in this field. Please help our students complete their education and begin their service at a hospital near you. Scholarship funds can help students afford:
News, Links, and Special Reports
- "Honors received by UIS faculty, alumnus at national CSL meeting," August 2009
- Linda McCown (right), Learn from the Pros: Interview and short video featuring CLS professor
- "Clinical Lab Science program receives accreditation award," April 2009
Questions?
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