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Clinical Science Graduates in Demand

Looking for a career field with a good job potential? Look at clinical science degrees. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that by 2012, the United States will need 69,000 more clinical laboratory scientists/medical technologists and 68,000 more clinical/medical laboratory technicians than it did in 2002. Estimates of hiring shortfalls for job vacancies may be as high as 9,000 to 10,000 per year.

Clinical Science Graduates in Demand

Looking for a career field with a good job potential? Look at clinical science degrees. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that by 2012, the United States will need 69,000 more clinical laboratory scientists/medical technologists and 68,000 more clinical/medical laboratory technicians than it did in 2002. Estimates of hiring shortfalls for job vacancies may be as high as 9,000 to 10,000 per year.

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Outstanding Graduating Senior
Heather Varble was selected as the Clinical Sciences Department’s Outstanding Graduating Senior. The award was announced at the NMU Honors Banquet. Heather graduated in summer 2008. She did two, six-month internships at Bay Area Medical Center in Marinette, Wis., and Marquette General Hospital. Heather won both the CLS Outstanding Student Practitioner Award as well as the CLS Outstanding Associate Degree Graduate Award in 2006. Heather’s file is filled with positive comments from hospital trainers and professors. Last summer, she was asked to interview at clinical laboratories in Wisconsin, Washington and Colorado and was given job offers at each place. She currently works at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo. Honors Graduates

Outstanding Graduating Senior

Heather Varble was selected as the Clinical Sciences Department’s Outstanding Graduating Senior. The award was announced at the NMU Honors Banquet. Heather graduated in summer 2008. She did two, six-month internships at Bay Area Medical Center in Marinette, Wis., and Marquette General Hospital. Heather won both the CLS Outstanding Student Practitioner Award as well as the CLS Outstanding Associate Degree Graduate Award in 2006. Heather’s file is filled with positive comments from hospital trainers and professors. Last summer, she was asked to interview at clinical laboratories in Wisconsin, Washington and Colorado and was given job offers at each place. She currently works at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo.

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Equipment Gifts
Northern Michigan University's Clinical Sciences Department has received an AxSYM® automated immunoassay analyzer through a donation to the program by Abbott as part of the company’s “Labs Are Vital” program. Full story It also recently received a Coulter Max-M cell counter from the Upper Peninsula Medical Center. The latter counts red and white blood cells and platelets.

Equipment Gifts

Northern Michigan University's Clinical Sciences Department has received an AxSYM® automated immunoassay analyzer through a donation to the program by Abbott as part of the company’s “Labs Are Vital” program.

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It also recently received a Coulter Max-M cell counter from the Upper Peninsula Medical Center. The latter counts red and white blood cells and platelets.

Alumni Update
Pete Pelletier ‘05, who is in his second year of medical school at Michigan State University, will be doing his family medicine clerkship in Alaska this upcoming year. Jenna Aho ‘08, a graduate of the clinical lab technology and science technologist majors, had been accepted into Central Michigan’s highly selective physician’s assistant program.

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