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Medical Laboratory Science Program - Mayo Clinic

The Mayo Clinic Medical Laboratory Science Program is housed in our renowned Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology.

Medical laboratory scientists are medical professionals that develop, perform and troubleshoot the assays and methods for analysis of blood, tissue and body fluids in diagnostic laboratories.According to some experts, approximately 70 percent of the objective information that physicians and other health care providers use to make medical decisions comes from the clinical laboratory. Laboratory tes

ting is used for diagnosis, prognosis or risk determination, and monitoring of therapy. A medical laboratory scientist must have a broad background in clinical biochemistry, microbiology, immunohematology (transfusion medicine), hematology and coagulation, and molecular diagnostics to function in today's modern diagnostic laboratory. Concepts in laboratory management, regulation and accreditation, and statistical concepts are also of fundamental importance. Additionally, once training is complete, students may choose to specialize in a particular area of diagnostics, such as molecular diagnostics, coagulation, hematology and microbiology. Not only do our students learn from our distinguished medical and allied health staff instructors, but we have also implemented progressive teaching strategies that incorporate online learning and make the most of our student's educational experience. The program gives students access to numerous specialized, cutting-edge diagnostic laboratories for training that allow them to get a head start on finding areas of special interest (for those who choose to focus on specific areas of testing after training). Our core laboratories also provide an outstanding training area for students interested in generalist positions after graduation.Our unique quality control course combines an online component offered by a world-renowned quality control expert (James Westgard) combined with in-class hands-on activities to reinforce concepts and teach day-to-day application. Medical laboratory scientists are in great demand and are highly sought after by clinical laboratories here and across the country, and the forecast for job opportunities remains excellent. Our program prepares students for a career in one of the most rewarding and fastest growing areas in health care — medical laboratory diagnostics.

07/30/2025

Our MLS students are identifying gram-negative bacilli that belong to the Family “Enterobacterales” this week in their Clinical Microbiology course.

07/21/2025

Our MLS students started their Renal Analysis class today. They jumped right in performing physical examination of urine in lab today and will be completing a full urinalysis by the end of the week.

07/07/2025

Welcome Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences -Medical Laboratory Science Program Class of 2026!

05/23/2025

It's graduation day! Congratulations to the MLS Class of 2025!

05/19/2025

Our MLS graduate Alec McGinn, supervisor of the Blood Donor Center at Mayo Clinic Rochester, is helping others by donating platelets today.

05/16/2025

MLS student Ethan is learning about Next Generation Sequencing library prep and making sure all the wells of the 96 well plate look good. He is finishing up his Molecular Genetics rotation today.

05/15/2025

MLS student Colton is in his final week of rotations in the Parasitology lab. He is learning how to manually stain slides using a safranin stain to aide in the detection of Cyclospora cayetanensis.

05/09/2025

Today is the day to test his own sample! MLS student Hunter is antigen typing his own blood in his transfusion rotation.

05/08/2025

MLS students Madelyn, Lauren and Jenna all rotated through the Mycology Lab at Mayo Clinic Rochester. They learned about the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) for a Biosafety Level 3 (BSL3) lab and were able to observe mycobacterial culture samples being worked up to rule out tuberculosis using real-time PCR from culture.

05/06/2025

MLS student Chandler is finishing his clinical experience in Mayo Clinic Florida. He is in his final week of his Hematology rotation in the Mayo Clinic Florida Core Lab and is staining bone marrow aspirates.

05/05/2025

Some of our MLS students spent last week in our Blood Components Lab, learning how to process donated whole blood into packed red blood cells (RBCs) and plasma units, removing the plasma into a separate bag and adding the additive solution. They also saw how to inspect platelet concentrates for the "platelet swirl" and learned how platelets are processed to get them ready for quality testing and transfusion.

05/01/2025

Session 3 blood bank students learned all about transfusion reactions from the Transfusion Medicine fellow Dr. Luz Sullivan this week. Thank you Dr. Sullivan!

Address

200 1st Street SW
Rochester, MN
55902

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

Website

http://www.mayo.edu/mshs/careers/laboratory-sciences/clinical-laboratory-science-program-florida-and-minnesota/admission

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