Olney Central College
ABOVE: Dr. Sarah Bergbower works with students in the OCC Life Science lab.
including her national professional organization (ASCLS) and a local health system, which reduced the high out-of-state-tuition. “My most recent School of Health Professions Dean’s Scholarship covered my last year’s tuition,” she added. The Doctorate of Clinical Laboratory Sciences (DCLS) is an advanced professional doctorate designed for prac- ticing clinical laboratory scientists who wish to further their level of clinical expertise and to develop leadership and management skills. The purpose of the program is the development of clinical laboratory sciences graduates who function as practitioners, community leaders, educators, and schol- ars in the profession of clinical laboratory science and the discipline of clinical laboratory science. Graduates
of the program generate, disseminate, and apply knowl- edge to enhance the understanding of laboratory assess- ment of health and disease. Only three universities offer the DCLS: Rutgers, Kansas University and UTMB. Bergbower first matriculated into the program in the fall of 2018, taking courses on a part-time basis. She noted, “I spent the summer months of the past five years in Galveston, Texas performing clinical rota - tions rounding with residents, fellows, and attending physicians on a variety of services, including internal medicine, cardiology, and infectious disease, as well as participating in diagnostic management teams (DMT’s) specializing in the laboratory interpretation of coag- ulation, anemia, antinuclear antibodies, and clinical chemistry/toxicology testing.”
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