The Accelerated Master’s Program (AMP) offers select students an opportunity to earn both the bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Medical Laboratory Science in five years.
The Medical Laboratory Science AMP prepares certified medical laboratory scientists for leadership roles in practice and research. Students in the UVM Medical Laboratory Science bachelor's degree program must apply for admission in the spring semester of their junior year.
Curriculum
A minimum of 30 credits and successful completion of a comprehensive written exam and capstone project are required for the master's degree. Six credits toward the M.S., which also count toward the bachelor's degree, are earned during the senior year. Six additional credits are completed during the summer after college graduation and all remaining requirements are fulfilled in academic year five. No more than nine credits of graduate course work may be taken before receiving the bachelor's degree. (Students who complete six graduate credits but who do not graduate in May of their fourth year may take one graduate course in the summer to count toward their bachelor's degree.)
Required Courses
| STAT 5000* or STAT 5210* | Medical Biostatistics & Epidemiology (STAT 5000, fall) or Advanced Stat Methods & Theory (STAT 5210, fall) | 3 |
| CTS 6020 | Quality in Health Care (spring) | 3 |
| GRNS 6220 | Organization, Delivery and Finance of Health Care (fall) | 3 |
| MLS 6200 | Clinical Correlations I (spring) | 3 |
| MLS 6300 | Emerging Diagnostic Technologies (spring) | 3 |
| MLS 6500 | Research Methods and Design II (summer) | 3 |
| MLS 6600 | Research Capstone (fall, spring) | 3 |
| MLS 6900 | Clinical Leadership and Management (summer) | 3 |
| NH 6899* | Evidence-Based Practice (spring) | 3 |
| PATH 6250 | Genetics for Clinicians (spring) | 3 |
| * taken in fourth year | Total Credits | 30 |
Capstone
Students complete a three-course series in research methods and design that culminates with a capstone project. Students can choose to carry out a research project with program faculty in the area of molecular and cellular pathology or an evidence-based capstone project with clinical partners.
Comprehensive Exam
A comprehensive exam, administered by the end of the fall semester of the fifth year, must be completed before graduation.
Admission Requirements
- Good standing as a current third-year medical laboratory science student
- Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0
- Completion of the Graduate College Application
- Written personal statement
- Three letters of recommendation
- GRE's not required
Admission to the Graduate College is required to apply courses toward the master’s degree. Students taking a 200-level course approved for graduate credit must email notification that they are taking a course for graduate credit to the course instructor and copy gradcoll@uvm.edu prior to the course start.
Complete applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis (completed applications submitted prior to deadline will be reviewed within 6 weeks of submission).