Supporters Save Medical Technology Program
Posted on | September 3, 2010 | No Comments
Clinical Laboratories of Hawaiʻi and Diagnostic Laboratory Services presents a check to university officials.
Clinical Laboratories of Hawaiʻi, LLP and Diagnostic Laboratory Services donated more than $100,000 to save the state’s only professional training program in the field of medical technology. The John A. Burns School of Medicine will use the funds to support a full-time faculty member for the next two years, which will permit the school to resume student admissions into the baccalaureate degree program in medical technology.
Since last summer, cuts to the state’s budget forced the Department of Medical Technology at JABSOM to stop admitting new baccalaureate degree program students. Since then, the school and the university have worked to seek private support and have restructured the program.
“Two key things happened,” said UH Mānoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw. “Clinical Laboratories of Hawaiʻi and Diagnostic Laboratory Services committed major financial support to the Department of Medical Technology. And the medical school entered into a partnership with Kapiʻolani Community College to restructure the medical technology program.”
Students can spend their first two years at Kapiʻolani’s accredited medical lab technician program, seeking an associate degree. Then, they will be able to advance to UH Mānoa to complete the last two years of upper division studies, which will culminate in a bachelor of science degree in medical technology.
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