Need some Undergrad advice (BS in CLS)

[Mavs88]

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Well, CLS is Clinical Lab Science. My university has the partner Health Science Center of the same university offer this bachelor's, you get accepted after sophomore year at any typical undergrad and take courses such as immunology, histology, bacteriology, etc in the last two years. This culminates in a BS degree and allows graduates to sit the Medical Technologist exam and you get to be the guy in the hospital that runs labs.

Welp, they have a Pre-Med track option, so it's not like it's strictly a career-based degree.

I was wondering how this sort of degree would look as opposed to my current Molecular Biology major?

How would it look to Adcomms that I transferred from my parent University to their HSC (where the med school, allied health,etc are) for my last two years?

I have already been 3 institutions total in the past 3 years. So would the HSC look like a 4th institution and be really bad for me in terms of inconsistency? Or would they just consider the HSC the same school as my undergrad...they are physically right next door to each other and bear the same name (besides HSC at the end).

I really think this major would be a good opportunity to really use undergrad for something useful and not just another XYZ bio degree. Not to mention, the program is small so I'd surely be closer with professors. All this also takes place under the same roof as the Medical school.

Any thoughts? thank you!

 

[ScarletandGray]

I've never actually posted anything on SDN but saw this and wanted to speak up.

I am not really sure how an adcom would look at changing institutions or campuses, however, I will say that CLS is really good prep for medical school. I am in the same program and it's been my experience that all of the material in my classes is not really presented to other undergrads. When I shadow a doctor and he is discussing lab results and pathophys with the residents and interns I understand a good chunk of what they are saying and what's going on.

A lot of students from my program that go to medical school end up using their notes from the CLS program to review concepts for their classes.
Taking classes like clinical chemistry, hematology, immunology is helpful, but on top of that you will understand why the tests are ordered and what they are actually measuring which will be incredibly helpful down the road.

Not saying it is better than Molecular Biology, just different and will give you a taste of clinical science!

 

[Mavs88]

Thank you for the response! That's good to hear and reinforces my belief in it!