Foreign Degree Applicants
Candidates seeking admission must have the following:
Baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited college/university with a major in biological or physical sciences including:
- 16 semester hours (24 quarter hours) of biological science (with one semester in microbiology)
- 16 semester hours (24 quarter hours) of chemistry (with one semester in organic or biochemistry)
- One semester (one quarter) in mathematics
- One year of full time acceptable clinical laboratory experience. The year of experience must be acquired post baccalaureate degree under the supervision of the following:
- American Board of Pathology certified pathologist
- Certified Medical Scientist
- Certified Medical Technologist/Clinical Laboratory Scientist.
- Have an evaluation of their transcript of credits from the International Education Research Foundation, Inc. Box 66940, Los Angeles, CA 90066 www.ierf.org
- NOTE: Several other agencies provide evaluation services. Contact the SBB Education Coordinator if another service is used.
- Professional experience in Blood Banking acceptable to the Medical Director. Applicants certified with ASCP or NCA in the appropriate field will be given priority in the selection process over uncertified applicants.
- Applicants from countries where English is not the native language are also required to submit scores on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). A minimum of 550 is required.