Phlebotomy Program Overview

CLC's Phlebotomy Certificate Program prepares students with entry level competencies as phlebotomists for employment in hospitals, clinics, blood donor centers, and other health care settings. Students will develop skills in performing phlebotomy procedures, specimen collection and processing.

The program is accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS).

Address:	8410 W. Bryn Mawr Avenue, Suite 670 Chicago, Illinois 60631-3415
Phone #:	(773) 714-8880
E-mail:	naaclsinfo@naacls.org
Website:	www.naacls.org

The program courses and activities are designed to teach the necessary technical skills and help students enhance their critical thinking abilities and interpersonal skills during:

• 96 hours of theory and laboratory practice at the CLC's well-equipped labs on campus with lectures, CD and DVD tutorials, the Web, practice arms, and real arms (students work on each other).
• A clinical practicum during which students spend eight hours a day, five days a week, for three weeks at clinical sites (hospitals or physician's office labs) for real, hands-on experience, as full-time student-trainees, under the supervision of professional Medical Technologists and/or Phlebotomists.

CLC's PBT Certificate Program can be completed in 11 weeks of diligent work (the fast-track). CLC awards a certificate upon successful completion of the program, and graduates of this program are eligible to sit for testing by nationally recognized certifying agencies.