Medical Technology Partnership with the
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Medical Technology: Clinical Laboratory Science

NWACC and UAMS have collaborated to offer an opportunity for students in NorthWest Arkansas to earn a bachelor's degree in Medical Technology (BSMT) from UAMS without leaving the area. Students are accepted into the UAMS program and additionally enroll for lab sessions at NWACC. Lectures are delivered via CD. Labs & testing for lecture are on the NWACC campus. .

Learn more about a career as a Medical Technologist and the Medical Technology Program-NWA Distant Education option at UAMS.

This site discusses some of the areas a Medical Technologist will work in the clinical laboratory. Here are some additional web sites to explore a career as a Medial Technologist. Links

Distant Education Track Northwest Arkansas

The department offers a medical technology curriculum in northwest Arkansas in a collaborative effort with Northwest Arkansas Community College (NWACC). Pre-professional course work can be taken at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, NWACC or other approved regionally accredited colleges. Students who are admitted into the four-semester program take the core curriculum courses through distance education technologies. The first year student laboratory sessions are taken at NWACC to coincide with the lecture material. A one week summer lab is required in Little Rock between the first and second year. The second year of the program is a clinical internship at hospitals in the Fort Smith or Fayetteville areas.

Dr. Caroline Burton is the Lead Faculty for Science at NWACC and is a registered medical technologist. Dr. Burton says that there are students in the northwest area of Arkansas who want to become clinical laboratory professionals but who cannot, for various reasons, leave the area to attend the first year of the traditional program in Little Rock. Clinical laboratory personnel are needed in Northwest Arkansas as well as in all areas of the country. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that between 1998 and 2008 there will be 4,000 more job openings per year in the United States than there are practitioners.

Contact Kathleen Mugan at mugankathleenm@uams.edu (800-981-4427) or Caroline Burton at cburton@nwacc.edu (479-619-4289) to discuss this program.

Department of Laboratory Sciences
Medical Technology Program
4301 West Markham Street, # 597
Little Rock, Arkansas 72205
Telephone: (501) 686-5776