School of Medical Laboratory Science

Science & Caring

If you love science and caring, a career in the medical laboratory – combining the challenges and rewards of medicine and science – may be perfect for you.

Medical laboratory professionals have unlimited choices of practice settings: hospitals, for-profit laboratories, clinics, business and industry. Areas of scientific exploration including the immune system, cell marker technology and cancer research are open to professionals in the field. In the clinical area, drug testing, molecular diagnostics and biogenetics are a few of the specialties you can work in.

CoxHealth offers a 12-month, hospital-based program that provides a certificate of completion for clinical training in Medical Laboratory Science. 

Our program is based at Cox Medical Center South, a regional health care center. This nearly 650-bed facility includes a large outpatient center, Level I Trauma Center, and much more. During the program, you’ll spend 8 hours a day, 4 days a week at the hospital, working and learning under the supervision of the Program Director and Program Specialist. Didactic lectures are taught at Cox North, then students will complete clinical rotations one-on-one with highly trained Medical Professionals at Cox South.

To be admitted to the program, you must first have earned a Bachelor of Science in biological science or have a minimum of 94 semester hours of college credit with the minimum required science credits. After you satisfactorily complete the training program, you’ll be awarded a certificate of completion or a degree from the college you attended. You’ll then take the national Board of Certification examination for registry as a Medical Laboratory Scientist.