About the 1 year of rotations requirement for a CA CLS license

There's much talk about the 1 year of rotations requirement for a CA license. In reality, it's not one entire year. I went to LLU's website and looked at the senior year curriculum of Loma Linda University, a CA CLS program, which is divided into 3 quarters. The Fall quarter is 12 weeks of rotation in Hematology, Urinalysis and Parasitology. In the Winter quarter, you have 12 weeks of rotation in Microbiology and Blood Bank. In the Spring quarter, you have 12 weeks in Chemistry, Immunology, and Special Chemistry.

Thus, this is really only 36 weeks of rotations and not 52 weeks. In addition, from what I remember, it was Monday through Thursday rotations in the hospital clinical lab from 7am to 3:30pm. Then on Friday, I would go from 7am to 11:30am for rotations, and then have classes from 1pm to 4pm. So in reality, to me it was one school year of rotations that qualified. They probably take into account the number of hours you've had on rotations also. By that I mean they probably want to see you training all day in a lab and not just a partial day, most of the days of the week. If your CLS program has something similar to that, it should meet the 1 year of rotations requirement for CA

Hey CLS148, what's your story? Just curious if CLS was your first choice in college, if not, how'd you stumble across this (somewhat random) career, and where did you get your internship done? If you don't mind me asking.

It's a long story some of which I don't really want to say because I want to keep some anonymity. CLS was not my first choice in college. I found out about CLS on the internet after my mom told me about it one day lol. I went to a UC school and got a BS degree in Biology, and then I went to Loma Linda University and got a second BS degree in CLS, so a total of 6 years at a university.

CLS48 in California said: It's a long story some of which I don't really want to say because I want to keep some anonymity. CLS was not my first choice in college. I found out about CLS on the internet after my mom told me about it one day lol. I went to a UC school and got a BS degree in Biology, and then I went to Loma Linda University and got a second BS degree in CLS, so a total of 6 years at a university.

Thanks for clarification! but has the rotational program changed since you left?(based on the website cirucullem)

No it looks to be the same as when I went there, so nothing's changed.

CLS48 in California said: No it looks to be the same as when I went there, so nothing's changed.

Sorry to bother, but do you remember how much time was divided between the areas of micro? heme? etc.?

Thanks!

Whatever I wrote in the first post. It must have been 12 weeks in each department, Monday through Thursday from 7am to 3:30pm. Then Fridays from 7am to 11am and the afternoons from 1pm to 5pm were classes. It was 3 quarters of it so 36 weeks straight.

CLS48 in California said: Whatever I wrote in the first post. It must have been 12 weeks in each department, Monday through Thursday from 7am to 3:30pm. Then Fridays from 7am to 11am and the afternoons from 1pm to 5pm were classes. It was 3 quarters of it so 36 weeks straight.

sorry i didn't clarify heh, was it evenly six weeks of microbio and six weeks of hematology? etc. thanks again!

No I don't think it was even. Micro had some parasitology in it. Hematology had some coag and UA. I don't remember the exact breakdown of hours in each department.

Hi,
I passed the ASCP and CA on line quiz last week. Do you know how long does it take to have my CA license posted? How can I check it? Thank you

katrina in San Jose, California said: Hi,
I passed the ASCP and CA on line quiz last week. Do you know how long does it take to have my CA license posted? How can I check it? Thank you

They ordered the license every 2 weeks so the next batch of license will be on aug29-31.

katrina in San Jose, California said: Hi,
I passed the ASCP and CA on line quiz last week. Do you know how long does it take to have my CA license posted? How can I check it? Thank you

They order the license every two weeks, the next batch would be aug 29-31. Once the license has been issued thats the only time that it will be posted. When did you take your online test?

I took the online test last month.

katrina in San Jose, California said: I took the online test last month.

Did you get your license yet. I took the online quizz aug. 19
and today I already found my name posted on their website.

Not yet. I received my ASCP's score this week. I guess I have to wait until ASCP contacts with LFS.

Is the 12 month clinical rotation requirement only for people coming out of school getting their first job as an MT(ASCP)or is it for ALL CLS/MTs? In other words, what if someone went to school (NAACLS accred) and received their CLS Bachelor's, became ASCP certified and then worked as a CLS generalist for more than 2 years in the lab before moving to CA??

Laurie in Vero Beach, Florida said: Is the 12 month clinical rotation requirement only for people coming out of school getting their first job as an MT(ASCP)or is it for ALL CLS/MTs? In other words, what if someone went to school (NAACLS accred) and received their CLS Bachelor's, became ASCP certified and then worked as a CLS generalist for more than 2 years in the lab before moving to CA??

CA doesn't care. The one year training is for everyone. Even if you came from a NAACLS accredited school and are ASCP certified and have years of generalist experience, if you don't have 1 year of CLS training in all departments, you're out of luck.

so CLS48 if I may, If we estimate the total number of clinical hours you had in the lab not including the lectures it would be equal to 38.5hrs/week
(7-3:30= 8.5hrs + 7-11:30= 4.5hrs= 38.5hrs/week)

so 38.5hrs x 36weeks = 1,386 hrs for your whole clinical rotation.

well this means the new 6 months internship in the Philippines from my school is acceptable.

since we had 56hrs/week not including our lectures for 28 weeks which is equivalent to "1,568 hrs TOTAL" for the 6 months. That is 182 hours more than Loma Linda's internship.

So this can help prove that it is not actually 1 year of internship if my theory and equation makes sense. What do think about it CLS48? I want to hear your opinion regarding this finding if you think I am eligible for a CA license?

CLS49 in Visalia, California said: so CLS48 if I may, If we estimate the total number of clinical hours you had in the lab not including the lectures it would be equal to 38.5hrs/week
(7-3:30= 8.5hrs + 7-11:30= 4.5hrs= 38.5hrs/week)

so 38.5hrs x 36weeks = 1,386 hrs for your whole clinical rotation.

well this means the new 6 months internship in the Philippines from my school is acceptable.

since we had 56hrs/week not including our lectures for 28 weeks which is equivalent to "1,568 hrs TOTAL" for the 6 months. That is 182 hours more than Loma Linda's internship.

So this can help prove that it is not actually 1 year of internship if my theory and equation makes sense. What do think about it CLS48? I want to hear your opinion regarding this finding if you think I am eligible for a CA license?

This topic is very debatable, traditionally wise a work schedule is based on 40 hrs per week. You should definitely talk to your program director in the Phillipines that based on the time your rotation is equivalent to a one year rotation and put it on your school letterhead/document it.

It is quite strange that your school has decided to squeeze the rotations like that. Did your school add in some classes? or decided to give gaps in between for 'breaks' ? In the end, your program director might have some sway in determining how long your rotation is because your transcript doesn't tell all. For example, 8 credits for let's say Chemistry rotation, doesn't necessary mean 8 weeks of rotation. Some schools vary on the credits given for rotation.

Good Luck! I need it too. best bet is to contact the person in charge of this at LFS, but it is very very difficult.

CLS49 in Visalia, California said: so CLS48 if I may, If we estimate the total number of clinical hours you had in the lab not including the lectures it would be equal to 38.5hrs/week
(7-3:30= 8.5hrs + 7-11:30= 4.5hrs= 38.5hrs/week)

so 38.5hrs x 36weeks = 1,386 hrs for your whole clinical rotation.

well this means the new 6 months internship in the Philippines from my school is acceptable.

since we had 56hrs/week not including our lectures for 28 weeks which is equivalent to "1,568 hrs TOTAL" for the 6 months. That is 182 hours more than Loma Linda's internship.

So this can help prove that it is not actually 1 year of internship if my theory and equation makes sense. What do think about it CLS48? I want to hear your opinion regarding this finding if you think I am eligible for a CA license?

Interesting, if your math is correct, then it would be nice if your education qualified. I have a feeling though, that CA will see 6 months and disqualify it automatically. They have lots of applications and only a few people reviewing it. The person making the decision might just be some worker that looks at hundreds of applications a day. The best thing to do is to talk to the person in charge and explain what you wrote here and your math.

CLS48 in California said: Interesting, if your math is correct, then it would be nice if your education qualified. I have a feeling though, that CA will see 6 months and disqualify it automatically. They have lots of applications and only a few people reviewing it. The person making the decision might just be some worker that looks at hundreds of applications a day. The best thing to do is to talk to the person in charge and explain what you wrote here and your math.

Now that wouldn't be fair if they just disqualified the application without a proper review, I mean for a waiting period of 10 weeks and no proper review sounds messed up to me. I have a copy of our training summary and it says the number of hours beside the duration so I doubt he will miss seeing the number of hours. I also believe they would have to review it or else I will, and I bet a hundreds of newly grad Filipinos would contest because we now have a loop hole to CA one year internship requirement. Thanks for sharing the Loma Linda training hours to by the way.

Sure, however what I wrote may not be exactly accurate. It's mostly from what I remember 6 years ago. I could have had more training that I'm not accounting for. If you really want to know the exact hours, you could just call Loma Linda's CLS department and ask.